TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, November 02, 2003

KeepAndBearArms.com reports on a gun rights lawsuit being undermined by the NRA in the courts:

Here is a short excerpt from Mr. Halbrook's oral arguments last Wednesday, October 8, in a case the NRA calls a “Second Amendment” lawsuit:

THE COURT: THE GOVERNMENT CAN PUT RESTRICTIONS ON THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS.

MR. HALBROOK: YOUR HONOR, WE ARE HERE WANTING TO REGISTER HANDGUNS. WE ARE NOT HERE WANTING UNRESTRICTED ACCESS. WE'RE NOT HERE ASKING TO CARRY THEM, OTHER THAN IN THE HOME.

THE COURT: YOU'RE SAYING THAT THE GOVERNMENT CAN IMPOSE REASONABLE RESTRICTIONS?

MR. HALBROOK: YES, YOUR HONOR. YES, YOUR HONOR.

[See: http://KeepAndBearArms.com/Silveira/Halbrook.asp for the full transcript, with annotations.]

And from CNSNews.com:

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), a current NRA board member, joined former NRA board member Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and anti-gun colleagues Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the author of the Brady gun control law, and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), who was elected to Congress on a gun control agenda after the murder of her husband and wounding of her son, to reintroduce a nearly identical version of the Our Lady of Peace Act (H.R. 4757). . . .

The legislation, which has been renamed the "NICS Improvement Act," is designed to eliminate current "gaping holes" in the information provided by states to the National Instant Background Check System (NICS), the database used by federal law enforcers to approve or deny gun purchases from licensed gun dealers and at gun shows nationwide. . . .

"This bill is going to pass. It almost passed last year, but Sen. [Orrin] Hatch (R-Utah) objected," Schumer explained. "We have worked closely with Senator Hatch. He's now a sponsor of our bill."

The updated proposal would provide $750 million "to establish or upgrade information and technologies for firearms eligibility determinations." . . .

Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America (GOA), said that the original bill risked the privacy of the mentally ill and . . . pointed to research published in Violence and Mental Disorder: Development in Risk Assessment . . .that mental health professionals could not accurately predict violent behavior even in a group of known mentally ill criminals with a history of violence.

"Psychiatrists and psychologists are accurate in no more than one out of three . . .

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