{"id":122452,"date":"2020-01-23T13:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T18:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=122452"},"modified":"2020-01-23T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T13:55:04","slug":"why-background-checks-are-a-lie-korwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/why-background-checks-are-a-lie-korwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Background Checks Are A Lie: Stopping Psychos and Gun Checks Are Unrelated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"753\" title=\"Why Background Checks Are A Lie: Stopping Psychos and Gun Checks Are Unrelated\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NICS-1024x753.jpg\" alt=\"Why Background Checks Are A Lie: Stopping Psychos and Gun Checks Are Unrelated\" class=\"wp-image-84576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NICS-1024x753.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NICS-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NICS-400x294.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NICS-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NICS.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anti-gun-rights crusaders keep calling for new and improved background checks. You know why. They dance in the blood of victims, using tragedy to manipulate for their goals. It\u2019s what they do. Bottom line, they don&#8217;t want checks, they want all the guns.<br \/><br \/>The problem with the check scheme is that background checks are a lie. The crusaders\u2019 big claim, constantly repeated on the old-news channels, is that the existing check has stopped about three million gun sales. What a glorious achievement. We need more of this, they say.<br \/><br \/>Not a single reporter in the entire profession has the brains, training or ethics to ask even the most obvious questions. This perpetuates the lie. Whether that\u2019s deliberate, ignorance, stupidity, a plot, it doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is it\u2019s harmful. So I\u2019ll ask.<br \/><br \/>Where are the three million arrests? Right?<br \/><br \/>It\u2019s a serious crime to try to get guns if you legally can\u2019t, you know that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The check is designed to find criminals trying to buy guns at retail. The criminals banned are really bad dudes\u2014bank robbers, rapists, murderers, fugitives, addicts, the mentally unstable, spousal abusers, jihadis, illegal aliens, there\u2019s a federal list. It\u2019s a long-term felony for these people to try.<br \/><br \/>What good is the background check if it finds these villains, has them right there in the store with the FBI on the phone for Pete\u2019s sake, and we just turn them away? Do you know how much money we\u2019re spending on this? Do we want to catch and lock up \u201cthe element\u201d or not? We have their signatures on a form for proof. The background check is a lie.<br \/><br \/>But wait&#8230; are these people&nbsp;<em>really<\/em>&nbsp;guilty of anything? That\u2019s one of the excuses the Brady supporters and authorities give (they have many) for not locking up virtually any of the desperados they identify: a positive hit in the system is insufficient grounds for dispatching an arresting unit. It\u2019s not exactly court-quality evidence to press charges. Say what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/fightlite-ar-ranch-rifle-shot-show-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"why-background-checks-are-a-lie-korwin\" title=\"Why Background Checks Are A Lie: Stopping Psychos and Gun Checks Are Unrelated\">FightLite\u2019s Modern AR Ranch Rifle \u2013 SHOT Show 2020<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Put another way, those three million background-check \u201cvictims\u201d experienced denial of their fundamental constitutional right to buy firearms by government clerks and a list. They could not confront their accuser, did not get a reason for the denial, and in significant numbers the denials were wrong. They were essentially convicted and denied their rights without a trial. Their due process was revoked. The background check is worse than a lie, it\u2019s a travesty. For those three million denials, prosecutions are extremely rare, in low two digits annually, convictions are apparently not even routinely tracked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Left-wingers dreamed this up, and got it enacted dancing in blood (they still do) back in the 1990s. It seemed to make sense, like many of their schemes, but in practice it is totally bogus. It destroys due process, plays find and release with criminals, can\u2019t distinguish between the guilty and the innocent and wastes scarce funds. They don\u2019t care, they just promote it like crazy, maybe because they are &#8212; and it is. Reporters march along. Shame on my journalism profession for the harm they cause. &#8220;If the media reported accurately on guns the debate would end.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>The BIDS system, the Blind ID System, performs a similar function, but it costs far less and doesn\u2019t register gun owners by the tens of millions, like the current \u201cNICS\u201d system seems to. Gun-owner registration is the primary but unspoken goal of the current plan, another lie. When Janet Reno first built the thing in Clarksburg, W.Va., back in 1998, not only was it a registration system, in direct violation of the enabling statute\u2019s ban on recording (18 USC \u00a7922 s&amp;t), she had the audacity to announce that her $250 million computer could not erase records. There is no end to the hubris of bureaucrats and anti-gun-rights crusaders.<br \/><br \/>The FBI assures us none of the inbound gun-buyer data is stored in any way, but you can\u2019t audit, and how much faith do you have in that? When I diagrammed the entire system for Gun Owners of America, (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lists.serverhost.net\/link.php?M=112668504&amp;N=63119&amp;L=52464&amp;F=H\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"why-background-checks-are-a-lie-korwin\" title=\"Why Background Checks Are A Lie: Stopping Psychos and Gun Checks Are Unrelated\">https:\/\/www.gunlaws.com\/images\/nicsbig.gif<\/a>) it turned out NICS queries criminal databases in many lands (Scotland Yard, Mossad and Interpol, for example). There&#8217;s no indication those search records are wiped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the BIDS system, instead of gathering millions of innocent people\u2019s names, licensed dealers receive the names of the bad guys, like wanted posters, and they check it out in their stores. Simple, efficient, encoded, logged so you can\u2019t check out your daughter\u2019s boyfriend. We trust certified dealers to sell guns, we can trust them to look up their customers in a secure phone book.<br \/><br \/>BIDS might make sense. The send-me-your-name NICS registration scheme is hoax-like from the word go. But ever since the presidency changed, the nation has learned how much one side perpetually lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POSTSCRIPT: <\/strong>When it comes down to it, the gun-ban cheerleaders won&#8217;t be happy until guns, &#8220;go away.&#8221; But there is no &#8220;go away.&#8221; They are guaranteed to remain dissatisfied, while we refuse to cooperate. Have the government take guns? You&#8217;re only giving them to Mr. Trump, who gun grabbers think is a Nazi personified, so that&#8217;s hopelessly irrational. Irrational. And even a wave-a-magic-wand disappearance method (or 100% effective bill) is nonsense, communist China would start imports worse than cocaine trafficking. South America too. All we face from the left on guns is mythology and Utopianism that interferes with life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_SHOT2020\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica! All Local Sales are FREE!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-gun-rights crusaders keep calling for new and improved background checks. You know why. They dance in the blood of victims, using tragedy to manipulate for their goals. It\u2019s what they do. 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