"azotic" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"azotic" wrote in message
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Senate wants to disarm vets.

If this bill is passed, an American would be barred from owning guns if:

* He is a U.S. veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; or

* As a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD in connection with the IDEA
program.

Not to mention the fact that an ailing grandfather could have his entire
gun collection seized, based only on a diagnosis of Alzheimer's from a
Medicare home health provider (and there goes the family inheritance).



Best Regards

Tom.

Tom, you may be interested in what the NRA/ILA has to say about this
bill:

"The new version of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act (H.R. 2640) would
require federal agencies to provide records of prohibited individuals for
use in NICS. It would also provide financial incentives to states to do
the same, by rewarding states that provide records to NICS and penalizing
those that refuse to do so over an extended period of time.

"Some pro-gun groups have claimed that H.R. 2640 would "prohibit"
thousands of people from owning guns. This is not true; these bills would
only enforce current prohibitions. In fact, H.R. 2640 would allow some
people now unfairly prohibited from owning guns to have their rights
restored, and to have their names removed from the instant check system."

Which brings up the question, which of the "pro-gun groups" did you
get your information from? It also raises another question: why did you
believe them without first reading the bill?

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill...bill=h110-2640

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Ed Huntress




Hello Ed

I did read the bill.

Information came from:

http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm

http://lpcolorado.blogs.com/lpcolora...ns-disarm.html

http://infowars.net/articles/septemb...0907gunban.htm

Aha. The usual suspects. d8-)


The part i have a problem with :

Section 102((1)©(iv) in HR 2640 provides for dumping raw medical records
into the system which will then, by law, serve as the basis for gun
banning.

There are six subsections to 102(1), Tom, and the claim you make is not in
any one of them. A person must be *adjudicated* mentally defective or
*committed* to a mental institution, under the definitions of Title 18 of
the US Code. And Title 18 (specifically, 922(g)(4) of title 18, United
States Code) is the background-check law AS IT STANDS TODAY.

In other words, there is no change in the law regarding *who* is restricted.
Which is exactly what the NRA is saying.

The GOA is trying to pull the wool over its members eyes by claiming that
there is some new restriction in this bill, which there is not. What this
bill is about is funding an old unfunded mandate, applying a carrot and a
stick to get the states to comply with the instant background-check
requirements.

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Ed Huntress