Bring on the lawsuits
Posted By matt on June 7, 2007
Looks like they might pull the Tiahrt amendment from this year's funding bill
For those not in the loop on this, this amendment makes it illegal for the ATF to share results of gun traces with anyone not engaged in a bona-fide criminal investigation. So, if you find a gun at a crime scene, you can find out where the gun came from, if necessary to the investigation. Without this amendment, however, you can get a list of all guns used in crimes in locality X between this time and that time, without it being tied to an investigation. The fear here is that someone like Bloomberg would use this to create a list of gun shops to sue, since a gun sold by them was later used in a crime. Remember – if you can't ban new guns in some place, another way to stop new guns is to shut down all the shops, then make it illegal to buy guns from anyone not licensed in that place. Eventually, the old guns go away as people move/die/sell them/etc. A certain number will be passed on as part of the estate, but many of those will go to people who are scared of them and turn them it at the gun buybacks. Before you know it, you have a disarmed population.
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