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Another familiar gun-control proposal is back on Capitol Hill.
This month, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal led a group of 25 Senate Democrats in introducing the Background Check Completion Act, often branded as the “No Check, No Sale” bill. Supporters say it would close the so-called Charleston loophole by preventing firearm transfers unless a background check is fully completed.
Under current federal law, when a buyer attempts to purchase a firearm from a federally licensed dealer and the background check is delayed, the FBI has 72 hours to complete its review for buyers 21 and older. If no final answer is returned in that window, the dealer may legally proceed with the sale. For buyers under 21, the review period can extend to 10 days.
Blumenthal argues that system allows prohibited buyers to slip through the cracks.
“If you haven’t passed a background check, you shouldn’t be able to purchase a weapon,” Blumenthal said. “No check, no gun.”
According to figures cited by the bill’s sponsors, 2,758 firearms were transferred in 2024 to people later determined to be legally prohibited from owning guns because background checks were not completed in time. Democrats routinely cite the 2015 Charleston church shooting, where the shooter obtained his firearm after a delayed background check, as justification for the proposal.
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The legislation would require every background check to be completed before a transfer occurs, eliminating the default-proceed option entirely. In practice, that would mean firearm transfers could be delayed indefinitely until the FBI finishes its review.
Companion legislation has been introduced in the House by James E. Clyburn.
The bill is co-sponsored by a long list of Democratic senators, including Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Adam Schiff. It is also endorsed by gun-control advocacy groups including Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords, Brady, and Sandy Hook Promise.
Gun-rights advocates have long countered that eliminating the default-proceed rule shifts the burden of bureaucratic delays onto lawful buyers, effectively allowing the government to block firearm purchases through inaction rather than due process. They also note that delayed checks do not automatically mean a buyer is prohibited. Only that additional review is required.
Whether the bill advances remains uncertain. But its introduction signals that Senate Dems are once again prioritizing background-check expansion as a centerpiece of their gun-control agenda.
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Perhaps… but only perhaps… if the “gubmint” wasn’t so quick to hand over hundreds of billion$ to the Somalis, and every other similar group of “victims”, they could use part of those stolen funds to function more efficiently in ALL areas, including processing background checks.
The flip side of these Democrat-Communists purportedly funny quotes is “No Democrats, No Communism”.
If it was not for the liberals you would not have any Social Security, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or school lunch programs, the consumer safety council, food inspections, at the Federal level, College and Tech School Grants, or the Nations Freeway System that the Republicans fought tooth nail and claw against because they said building the Freeways would be too expensive and no one would use them anyway. Folks you just cannot make this stuff up when it comes to Republican antics and bizarre behavior. And we still do not have affordable healthcare at the European civilized level.
The Constitution does not say everyone and all projects are to be funded by the congress and bureaucrats. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” I’m sure you heard that before. That and the other 9 planks of communism. Most, if not all those projects you mention are connected with some sort of fraud, corruption, and graft along with nepotism in some way.
Move into the 21st Century. No nation that I am aware of controls how much or what is produced, the free market in all countries does this. You are confusing Socialism with Communism. Communism died out in the 1950’s. Socialist Governments fund Social Programs through taxes which comes from the free market. And yes this includes the social programs in the U.S. that I referred to in my other post.
When small European Countries can provide “affordable health care” and have been doing it now for over 100 years the Far Right screaming that “I am too cheap and stingy to pay a few more pennies in taxes so I can go bankrupt tomorrow over healthcare costs” does not fly with sane people. The majority of the American People want this, need this, and it’s a human right if you live in a civilized country.
History has proved the cheap, stingy Far Right Fanatics wrong over 100 years ago.
People in Europe do not die like dogs in the street because they cannot afford even old fashioned drugs like Insulin. This has and continues to happen in Capitalvania U.S. where life is considered cheap and expendable by the ruling rich Republican Criminal Oligarchy.
Try again, you flunked economics, political science and history classes in school.
The Midterms are coming and when they are over civilization will once again come to the U.S. after the gangster criminal Republicans are swept from power. We will the get affordable healthcare, sane gun control, women’s rights, which will free them from medieval sex slavery, workers rights to a livable wage, and Social Security benefits which will allow a person to retire in dignity and not live in poverty.
The day of reckoning is coming with the Midterms and we will be marching to the voting places no matter how many dirty tricks the Republicans can come up with to try and prevent the American Workers from voting the “Beasts” out of power who have turned the U.S. into a shooting gallery with its citizens the targets every day.
dacian, I don’t want to get in a turf war here but this blog is already has a left wing advocate and your artless trolling is disappointing in its medicority and little more than thuggery. I have been working this corner for at least 12 years, maybe 15? Turn your tricks elsewhere. I don’t want to have to settle this the preferred way of settling such things in the streets – freestyle rap battle.
Also how do you say your name? dah-KEE-uhn? DATCH-ee-un? DAYSH-un? Any connection to X-O Manowar?
This blog does not have “enough critical thinkers” who do not blindly follow Stormtrooper Authority or tow “The Jackbooted Party Line”. It’s a bit of a shock for you to be forced to think critically or debate a subject when you know you will on the defensive.
If you believe in your cause, then why are you so worried about defending it????
The one thing the Far-Right Fanatics fear and hate the most is the 1st Amendment because it breaks into the cocoon they live in and forces them to think about the other viewpoint or exposes them to science which they also fear with a passion because it too destroys their misconceptions and ignorance on most subjects.
In closing “no blog” should be designed as a “propaganda machine” but rather a blog dedicated to the advancement of learning which can only be achieved through the rights of “free speech” i.e. the 1st Amendment. Those who do not support “all” of the Constitution are only dedicated to its destruction.
The Far Right want only to hear their own propaganda to reinforce their ignorance on most subjects.
It might surprise you to know that you are in the minority of gun owners because the “majority” of gun owners “do know” that the U.S. does have a serious gun problem and that tough gun laws are not all designed to take peoples guns away from them but rather the majority of tough gun laws are designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not be allowed to own them and you do not get this when you allow anyone on the street to buy all the second hand guns and firepower they want. None of this is rocket science to those who do not suffer from advanced paranoia and are also aware of how successful other countries have been with their gun laws because they have far less homicides and mass murders than we do. That is a fact which the Far Right ignore with the simple wave of the hand. And those countries have plenty of guns but in the hands of civilized law-abiding people.
I might also add a fact that is totally unfathomable to the Far Right and that is that millions of gun owners are Centrist or Liberal.
And if you are lacking in basic semantics as far as the pronunciation of my name, I suggest you go back and pass world history classes or look up “who” the people were on Trajan’s Column in Rome.
Dacian, You do know it’s called the Eisenhower Interstate Highway Act that got the interstate system going? Look it up and be educated. Want to know who fought against it? Senator Russell Long (D),Senator Harry Byrd (D), Sam Rayburn (D), Lyndon Johnson (D),wow, what a bunch of closet GOP members.
Want to know what the final vote was? Only ONE (1) no vote was cast by Russell Long, a democrat.
You ignored the House vote where it was 388 to 19. Naturally the 19 against it in the House were Republicans.
Well, if you want to count in ALL the different votes on the DIFFERENT VERSIONS of the ACT, why didn’t you include the version by Senator Martin (R) where only one (one) democrat voted for the plan. Senator John F. Kennedy voted for the plan, thee ONLY democrat to vote yes.
I gave you the results of the final vote for passage in my above post. You keep going back to cherry pick your rebuttals on votes that had no bearing on the outcome.
According to figures cited by the bill’s sponsors, 2,758 firearms were transferred in 2024 to people later determined to be legally prohibited from owning guns because background checks were not completed in time. Democrats routinely cite the 2015 Charleston church shooting, where the shooter obtained his firearm after a delayed background check, as justification for the proposal.
That just means that YOUR NICS SYSTEM SUCKS !
Very true that is why all firearms purchases including second handguns should go through the NFA background check which is very, very, thorough.
“…shall not be infringed..” Never heard that one, huh?
The people who bought through Nics still have their firearms dating back to 1933. What kind of paranoid world do you live in?
The Democrats are LOSERS on every front. They get NOTHING right. So their main gain is to create mountains out of mole hills and in order to do this they must VIOLATE every constitutional right in the book and resort to corruption. Most of them need to be hung by the neck till dead and the others imprisoned for life and let their families feed them every day or starve. If this doesn’t happen we will all be slaves in the near future.
Tell me another one. The Gangster Criminal Republicans “steal” your tax dollars and give millions away as a form of Corporate Welfare called Corporate Grants to the greedy filthy Rich who actually run the country by bribing the Republicans with kick backs from the taxes the Republicans stole from the workers.
Mitch McConnell who enslaves one of the poorest States in the U.S. took 1/2 million in bribes from the drug and insurance companies. Yeah Kehrer tell me all about corruption, you seem to ignore the majority of it that comes from the gangster criminal Republicans.
Try again you failed big time.
What’s the breakdown? 2857 firearms transferred to prohibited citizens vs how many citizens rights delayed? 500? 1000? 10000? In the end the current law was est’d because beareaucrats were taking too long on purpose. I might could get on board if there was a guarantee that the FBI couldn’t drag their feet infringing on the 2ndA…
Then there’s always the argument that “no freeman shall be debarred the use of arms” …if they’re too dangerous to have a firearm they’re probably too dangerous to walk around breathing the same fresh air as the rest of us. Lock em up
roughly 8-10% of checks depending on who you ask, it can be as little as 4.2 % according to NPR figures between 2020-2021.
Between 2020 and 2021, NICS checks saw record highs, with
2020 recording roughly 39.7 million total transactions, a significant increase, followed by around 38.9 million in 2021 now think about 4.2% of those numbers… So, around 1.6 million + delays each of those years, under 3,000 actual prohibited.. That is what they need to send back is a WTF ??
You admit they prevented 3,000 nut cases that could have attacked you or your family. i consider that well done by the gun laws that prohibiting them from buying a weapon.
Then why are those “nut cases” not incarcerated or in mental institutions? How about those “nut cases” disposing of their automobiles, matches. lighters, baseball bats, knives, etc.?
Deflection!
In reality Republicans have blamed mental illness and then the Hypocrites have prevented the passing of a National Healthcare bill from being past that would have paid for mental health care for people who need it. Civilized Europe and Asia have had National Health Care for decades and decades. None have went back to Healthcare based on blind greed and profit, none, none!!!!!
Incarcerated! Do not make me laugh. The U.S. has more people in prison than does Russia, China, and North Korea combined.
Do you remember the depraved “Tricky Dick Nixon” who started “The war on crime” and “Three strikes and you are out”. They were all disasters. Rather than treat drug addiction as an illness (which it is) and follow the European example of giving such people rehabilitation treatments Tricky Dick spent millions on a new army of Thug Cops who put them in prison and when they got out many had never even seen, much less operated, a computer and did not even realize you have to go on line to get jobs in modern times.
And as far as your ranting about automobiles, baseball bats or knives? Stephen Paddock at Las Vegas gunned down 433 people in seconds with full auto assault rifles which he could never have done with any other weapons.
Try again you only made a fool of yourself.
I might support this bill if they add a provision to penalize the FBI for taking too long. I could support a bill that requires the FBI to pay the purchaser $50 per day for each day longer than 3 days. Perhaps call it the “Infringement Upon Constitutional Rights Reimbursement”. The $350 reimbursement checks should be required to be sent out every 7 days with the money coming directly out of the FBI’s operating budget.
I guess I’m not familiar enough with what gun purchasing is like in other states. I just know that in my state I am walking out the door in under an hour so I don’t know if it’s a mom and pop shop thing or if those shops don’t have access to NICS. But in an attempt to keep those 2758 guns out of illegal hands, I am willing to go through some inconvenience/wait. When I buy a gun… I don’t necessarily need to have it that day and if someone does… Then they need to learn how to plan.
So you are ok if the next gun you buy the clerk runs the background check and it comes back conditional because they entered something wrong? Then you have to now wait 3 days for it to be released. With this law who knows how long. So the thought of better planning goes out the window.
I’ve never had that problem in any gun dealer i’ve dealt with for as long as the NICS system has been around. Any dealer that wants to stay in business does a pretty good job of putting that information in. And if I had to wait three days (which I did in the old days)… No big deal although I would be expecting a little bit more of a discount from the dealer, lol.
Everybody acts like an inconvenience is the end of the world so they bitch, whine and complain about every little thing because they didn’t get it when they wanted it. It’s the premise on which millennials operate. It’s selfish and childish behavior and to not give a damn about guns possibly getting into the hands of criminals over one’s own selfish interests, turns my stomach. To me that’s like trading in a truck with a known safety issue and not telling the dealer about it so you can get the maximum amount of trade-in for it. Screw the next guy, I got mine, right?
In New Jersey, the background checks for everyone got delayed 30 days because of purported State Police glitch in their computers. Having lived in New Jersey for 60 years, knowing how their court system operates, knowing how their State Police operate as Gestapo, and the fact you have to get approval from your local chief of police, and the fact that Congresscritters won’t come to New Jersey to support any politician because the “dirt might rub off”, it is a BIG DEAL to have another layer of anti-2nd Amendment laws & ordinances to usurp your Constitutionally guaranteed Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
I’m assuming Chris Christie didn’t do a damn thing for you guys over there? Did he even try? I know my sister has lived there since she was 18 years old and has worked for the banking system her entire life. They made it next to impossible for her to even get a concealed weapons permit because she was dropping off tens of thousands of dollars to a safe deposit box at their main branch.
I’m assuming you can blame northern jersey, which is filled with New Yorkers anyway, for your problems regarding this.
There are plenty of people that do have a problem. They are denied and delayed. So the woman who has been abused now has to wait to defend herself? You may mt have an issue until you do. Is it not selfish to only think of you not having a problem that others may?
Wrong as usual. Many States have “safe houses” for women” and many states have “emergency temporary permits” as well. And lets not forget the person who did the threatening being incarcerated by the Police because many times the woman has bruises that prove the guy should be locked up for assault.
Your RIGHTS are not predicated on NEED, i want it, am not prohibited, and because YOUR NICS system stinks, i should not be delayed ! And what they are NOT telling you is that between 4 and 10 of NICS at times are delayed ! To give you an idea of the scope , in 2020 and 2021 around 39 MILLION checks were processed, at a 4% delay rate, that is 1.6 MILLION people having their rights curtailed over 2,800 oopses, because like everything else the US Government does, it is done wrong .. I am exempt from NICS because of a CWP, but it really sucks for some people that have chronic delays !
Chronic delays? How many people do you know have run into a problem with the NICS system more than once? They have issues with their background?
Get it through your skull “sergeant” Blumenthal, I don’t need your’s or any other GD politicians permission to exercise my Constitutional right, PERIOD!
Wrong!
No Constitutional right is unlimited otherwise you could build an atomic bomb, make WWI mustard gas, or yell fire in a theater and then watch people being trampled to death while you laughed and the cops could do nothing to stop you. Sorry pal, but you do not live in the real world but one of paranoia that has no relation to reality.
This is not a citizen problem, this is a inefficent government problem when they cannot perform their duties in a timely manner adding another law to an already bloated bueracracy is not a remedy.
No Check, No Sale is an opening for 2nd amendment abuse and should be denied passage.
since there is a back door to this legislation…….i will assume it is to give the criminals a safer working environment.
The Dem’s as usual are correct. All gun sales including private transfers should have to go through the 1933 NFA background check.. Currently any nut case or criminal can buy an unvetted used gun on the street faster than he can buy a hamburger and fries which is pure insanity.
Two different Chicago studies done proved that guns used in crimes were second hand and had been through many hands and most had come from Southern States with weak gun laws and were shipped into Northern Big Cities via “The Iron HIghway” as verified by the FBI. This made the tough gun laws of Northern Big Cities useless.
And despite the rantings from the rooftops by Right Wing Paranoid lunatics there has not been one group of firearms confiscated after they were registered under the NFA.
Then maybe northern cities should loosen their gun laws so all those guns flow toward southern states…
Democrats are NEVER correct when it comes to anything regarding the 2nd ammendment. I dunno why silly trolls like you and bluey like to come here and spew your b.s. nonsense thinking you’re changing hearts and minds. Now go call your dad and tell him you’re sorry.
While we always welcome discussion and different view points you are way out of your wheelhouse here on this subject. The Dems are usually wrong,way wrong on guns and gun ‘control’. There is far more wrong with crime than unregistered gun transfers. Guns can be ‘bought off the street’ even in Japan, Great Briton, Mexico, India and so many other places where there are onerous gun laws. As for studies done by Chicago, that’s like asking Putin to protect Ukraine.
I recall a few years ago the railroads were raising hell because LA and Chicago could not or would not stop gangs from robbing trains. In Chicago they broke into a boxcar shipment from Ruger.
Bureaucrats must never be given any kind of free rein. In Illinois a couple of years ago I bought a 10/22 and it kept being refused. After having to get state legislators and a state senator involved it was discovered that some bureaucrat decided they didn’t like the newly issued FOID cards with 8 digit numbers. The bureaucrats wanted FOID’s to all have 10 digit numbers. So, they voided all cards with 8 digits without telling anyone and said they had intended to reissue 10-digit cards to the 8-digit card people “in a month or two.”
In reality there are very few guns bought in these countries. In Japan the gun laws are so tough that even the Japanese Mafia does not use guns. All of these countries have proven that their gun laws have resulted in way less homicides and mass murders than in the U.S. where 45,000 people a year are gunned down including 1,500 children. Charlie Kirk made the callus remark that we have to sacrifice these people on the depraved altar of zero gun control to preserve the 2nd Amendment but was it not ironic that he was one of the ones sacrificed! Charlie would still be alive today if he had helped change the gun laws in America. History is not on the side of the Paranoids who scream zero gun control.
Ever look up the number of knife murders in any of those countries?
Yes none of the knife attacks are as numerous and none as deadly.
I give you several examples of many.
A school of children was attacked in China and another in Japan by Luntics with knives. In both incidents “all” of the Children survived” Compare that with the lunatic Country of the U.S. where blood runs like rivers down the halls of many our schools every other day now it seems. The dead U.S. children are now too numerous to count, it almost reminds you of the casualties of WWI when they just stopped counting the dead.
Try again, History has already proven you very wrong.
Why are you not espousing all “nut cases or criminals” or “Right Wined Paranoid lunatics” be restricted from owning firearms and locked up?
Read my above posts.
No thanks . I have better things to do with my time .