We would suggest that for every attempt by Senator Schumer and his ilk to undermine the Second Amendment, pro Second Amendment legislators should introduce legislation requiring background checks for every candidate who seeks a federal office. Federal civil service employees are subject to such background checks, why should those making our laws be exempt? There should also be stiff penalties for those withholding criminal and mental health records from the FBI ... and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).Perhaps if we had background checks as exhaustive for the President of the United States as some propose for sportsmen, we wouldn't have a President who claims to have studied at Columbia University and yet was not seen by a single eyewitness, and whose birth and academic records are more closely guarded than national secrets and diplomatic cables.
From The HillBy Mike Lillis
All gun sales – even private transactions – would require a background check under legislation unveiled Wednesday by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Current law requires that only licensed firearms dealers perform background checks, but Schumer says those rules don't go far enough to keep guns from the hands of violent criminals, the mentally ill, drug abusers and other prohibited buyers.
"Lax reporting by states and federal agencies has allowed guns to get into the hands of dangerous individuals with consequences that have been tragic and deadly," Schumer said Wednesday in a statement.
