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The National Instant Check System (NICS) passes the House yesterday, and has my support. And, the NRA's support. I spent a lot of time posting during the Crazy CHO cycle, and then determined that the system was broken. And proposed that we should strip away the cloaks hiding the mentally disturbed, and distribute that information to Gun Dealers.

From the NRA-ILA site:

H.R. 2640, the “NICS Improvement Act,” is consistent with NRA’s decades long support for measures to keep guns out of the hands of those who have been adjudicated by a court as mentally incompetent. Additionally, H.R. 2640 makes some much needed, and long overdue, improvements to the NICS.

The basic premise of the bill is to provide an effective mechanism to help screen would-be gun buyers with adjudicated mental illness records. H.R. 2640would require federal agencies to provide records of prohibited individuals for use in the NICS, providing financial incentives to states to do so. It would not prohibit any additional people from owning guns. Those blocked from buying a gun due to newly provided and updated records in the NICS are already prohibited under current law.

What's the use of having a law, if some crazy bastard can simply check 'NO' to the question, 'Are you nuts, or on drugs'? We need, for our own protection as responsible gun owners, every method we can get to combat the loonies getting guns. It's tough enough, given the population pressure we're under, to find ranges or countryside in which to smack some stray tin cans around (as I did in Arizona) without the additional pressure of these hive-minded city dwellers who comfortably sit in their boxes and compartments and wonder why anyone would want to enjoy shooting sports...so, let's get this law on the books. Soon.

Further from the NRA-ILA:

No piece of legislation will stop a madman bent on committing horrific crimes. However, those who have been found mentally incompetent by a court should to be included in the NICS. In addition, the NICS should be as instant, fair, and accurate as possible.

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This bill now moves to the Senate for consideration. NRA will continue to work throughout the process and vigilantly monitor this legislation to ensure that any changes to the NICS benefit lawful gun purchasers, while ensuring that those presently adjudicated by the courts as mentally incompetent are included in the system.

If anti-gun Members of Congress succeed in attaching any adverse amendments to this bill, we will withdraw support and strongly oppose it!

Of course we will watch anything that group of pandering nincompoops in the Congress and Senate does. They are all addicted to OPM (Other People's Money) and will take from whoever gives the most...the groups who oppose any gun ownership, the Bradys, etc. Numerous and loud, and smelling some liberal changes, since they've been under control since Clinton left office.

So put me down as cautiously approving this measure. Cautious, and caustic if they get out of line...

h/t Barking Moonbat

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