This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. New Ghost Gat Celebrates Free Speech https://youtu.be/BKP3AY4dXzo CTRL+Pew, our friend and a humble master of memes, this week … Read more
Rep. Margaret Good has filed House Bill 451. Her apparent intent (to give her the benefit of the doubt) is to require universal preemptively-prove-your-innocence background checks on all firearm sales. She complains, “This is the. third. time. I’ve filed this legislation.” I think I see why this keeps failing. It’s a poorly written mess that … Read more
The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) today is praising a milestone achievement of a 241 percent increase of state submissions of adjudicated mental health records to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System database since the firearms industry launched the FixNICS® campaign in 2013. Just 1.7 million such records existed in the FBI’s database when NSSF … Read more
Yeah…this is not a joke, but it could be. Way to go, CNN. That’s some ace reporting you’ve done there. Again. Last year, thousands of people trying to buy guns from dealers made false statements about their past on the required federal form, then went on to fail the background check due to a serious … Read more
[ED: This is the third post of a new series. If you have a question for an experienced federal firearms licensee, send it to thetruthaboutguns@gmail.com with ‘Ask the FFL’ in the subject field.] We got a few interesting questions from the fine readers in recent weeks. I wanted to dig into them and get you … Read more
Chicago Tribune: Lie on a Firearms Background Check? What Have You Got to Lose? This just in: criminals are going to act criminally . . . Anyone who wants to buy a gun from a licensed dealer is required to fill out a “Firearms Transaction Record.” It asks various questions to determine if the customer … Read more
By now you’ve probably heard that according to the FBI, which is responsible for maintaining and running the National Instant [Criminal Background] Check System (NICS), Black Friday 2016 broke the all-time single-day NICS check record. With 185,713 background checks processed, the previous record — set on Black Friday 2015 — was surpassed by a whopping 368 … Read more
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