By Christopher Maidment
With legislation looming to shut it down, Department of Safety Commissioner Robert Quinn implemented yet another policy overhaul of New Hampshire s gun line on Monday, hoping to appease critics who call the state s background check system both redundant and a danger to Second Amendment rights. Most states don t have a point-of-contact for background checks and instead leave them to the federal government.
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In his new policy memo, Quinn acknowledged current procedures undermine the stated purpose of the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System), which he said is to provide an
immediate determination of whether a commercial transaction would violate federal law. The commissioner wrote that an immediate determination is not only fair to the firearm dealer but to the purchaser s constitutional rights.
Drilling Holes in Proposed Credit Card Regulation of Gun Purchases Ammoland Inc. Posted on
Shannon Watts wants to know what’s in your wallet. IMG Jim Grant
U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Shannon Watts wants to know what’s in your wallet. Even more, she wants what’s in your wallet to decide what you can buy.
Michael Bloomberg’s frontwoman for his bought-and-paid-for gun control group Moms Demand Action is demanding credit card companies monitor and police cardholder purchases. Specifically, she wants credit card companies to ban purchases of precursor firearm parts. Watts derides them as so-called “ghost guns” and wants to ban their sale. Her claim is that the ATF recovered 10,000 of these “ghost guns” last year, but those included firearms with obliterated serial numbers and older firearms not legally required to serialized.
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2020 ended with a total of 39.7 million background checks, the highest annual count recorded. Why?
“Government fell on its face in 2020 and left many Americans to arm themselves for self-protection amidst political turmoil and failing institutions.”
Is there a reason to be concerned about escalating guns, violence, and the lack of trust in institutions?
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In 2018, the Small Arms Survey stated that U.S. civilians alone account for 393 million (about 46 percent) of the worldwide total of civilian held firearms. This amounts to 120.5 firearms for every 100 residents, Wikipedia.
Per Reason.Com (below), 2020 ended with the highest number of background checks.
Is there a reason to be concerned about escalating guns, violence, and the lack of trust in institutions?
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ALTON â Firearms purchases continue at a brisk pace, but finding what you want can be a problem.
Gun sales have shot through the roof over the past year, fueled by concerns over COVID-19, civil unrest and the politics of gun control. As a result, both firearms and ammunition are in short supply.
Scott Pulaski, owner of Piasa Armory, an Alton gun store, said sales are normally heavy before Christmas and then through tax return season. This time it picked up after Christmas (2019) and never stopped, he said. It even went higher after the lockdowns got started in March and never stopped.
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Deep in south Louisiana, a state that bills itself as Sportsman’s Paradise, Valerie Martinez-Jordan readily admits that “we like our guns down here.”
That doesn’t stop Martinez-Jordan, a lieutenant with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, from taking guns from the hands of domestic abusers in this rural corner of the state.
One day it was two. One week it was 10. In one instance, a man told the judge he had only three guns. Instead, the department confiscated 22.