{"id":50655,"date":"2016-01-20T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T01:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=50655"},"modified":"2016-01-20T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T19:58:01","slug":"korwin-the-manchin-toomey-gun-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/korwin-the-manchin-toomey-gun-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"KORWIN: The Manchin-Toomey Gun Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Alan<\/a>

Alan Korwin, visit his website GunLaws.com.<\/p><\/div>\n

(Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> The following was syndicated with the permission of Alan Korwin, the author of the article. Mr. Korwin is the author of 14 books, has been invited by the U.S. Supreme Court twice to observe oral arguments and runs the website GunLaws.com<\/a>. He is also a friend of GunsAmerica<\/em>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing for progressives to push us backwards by introducing laws that are magical mystery tours of gun fantasy, proposing solutions to nonexistent problems, irrationally hoping they can quell their own internal fears. Make-believe gun-free zones, invisible <\/span>x-ray-proof guns, \u201cdum-dum\u201d bullets that are actually safe hollow ammo police insist upon (because it\u2019s safer). I\u2019ll get to those, be patient.<\/span><\/p>\n

We need to start first with the Manchin-Toomey gun-control bill Congress wisely turned down. Obama praised it (and scolded Congress) during his Jan. 7 town hall gun-control show.<\/p>\n

It was sold as a simple, common sense, reasonable background check bill everyone could agree upon. And now\u2014with a 90% approval rating!\u2014the president tried selling it again. Manchin-Toomey is a check, plus a ban on gun registration. That\u2019s a myth. Look behind the curtain.<\/p>\n

When you find out how our laws work, you learn to your surprise that the names of the sections aren\u2019t law, have no effect on the law, don\u2019t count for anything really, they\u2019re just names. This lets people making laws call them anything, to help get them passed, even if the names are deceitful. It\u2019s done all the time:<\/p>\n

When the FBI wanted to tap everyone\u2019s phone from a single convenient location, they introduced it as the Telephony Privacy Improvement Act. Seriously. It was defeated. But later passed and signed by Bill Clinton.<\/p>\n

Gun registration by the feds is a really bad thing, which I won\u2019t delve into now (briefly, how does writing my name on a list help stop crime? It doesn\u2019t, and you can\u2019t list criminals because they have 5th Amendment rights against it. It\u2019s complicated.<\/p>\n

The Manchin-Toomey bill claims to ban the creation of a nation firearms registry, so this is a selling point. But you have to be careful with the bottom-feeding maggots who draft these things and pitch them to you, and I don\u2019t say that lightly. The part of the bill that CREATES a national registry of guns and gun owners in the Manchin-Toomey bill is entitled: \u201c(c) PROHIBITION OF NATIONAL GUN REGISTRY.\u201d Seriously.<\/p>\n

In an artful use of language and strategic omissions, this section of law empowers government to create a national gun registry. It stops nothing. Remember\u2014the title is not law and counts for nothing. It is window dressing used by the drafters for whatever they like. These are the kinds of people we\u2019re dealing with.<\/p>\n

Go to this link<\/a> to find the full language (and wade through it) with the cool background. If enacted, 18 USC \u00a7923 would prevent \u201cconsolidating or centralizing\u201d one type of record only, which government hasn\u2019t got, by only one person. Getting around that is so easy it is tactfully enabled by the narrow scope. When a bill is written to really prohibit something, expansive language gets used so nothing escapes.<\/p>\n

\"Sens.<\/a>

Sens. Joe Manchin, left, Pat Toomey, right. (Photo: Allison Shelley\/Getty Images<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

This bill should say no agency in any branch of government, nor any contractor or employee working in any capacity with the government, nor any foreign government or agency may establish a gun registry. Instead, it says the Attorney General may not. It doesn\u2019t ban the Justice Dept., the FBI, the ATF. Officials will argue that by implication the AG includes anyone. Until it passes\u2014when no such limit will be found, and \u201cAttorney General\u201d excludes her staff, obviously.<\/p>\n

Nothing in the language even hints at preventing officials from recording, storing, collating, compiling, distributing, securing, retrieving, integrating, merging, using or backing up records forever, just no consolidating or centralizing. There\u2019s no audit trail and no penalty for failing to comply.<\/p>\n

The kicker: Manchin-Toomey requires you to get a background check for a private sale at a gun show, but it doesn\u2019t require anybody to give you one. Doing a background check on someone you\u2019re not selling a gun to is actually prohibited\u2014a separate federal crime. Use of NICS is reserved to FFLs for prospective sales. You can\u2019t look up your daughter\u2019s boyfriend, or anything else, on pain of prison, fines and loss of license. Sloppy drafting? No\u2014they\u2019re asking us to accept myths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was sold as a simple, common sense, reasonable background check bill everyone could agree upon. And now\u2014with a 90% approval rating!\u2014the president tried selling it again. Manchin-Toomey is a check, plus a ban on gun registration. That\u2019s a myth. Look behind the curtain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":38877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,592,7,234,25,486,240],"tags":[132,469,122,488],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-alan-korwin","9":"category-gunsamerica-authors","10":"category-columns","11":"category-current-events","12":"category-shot-show-2016","13":"category-this-week","14":"tag-buzz","15":"tag-gun-control","16":"tag-r2kba","17":"tag-shot-show-2016"},"yoast_head":"\nKORWIN: The Manchin-Toomey Gun Myth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KORWIN: The Manchin-Toomey Gun Myth -\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/korwin-the-manchin-toomey-gun-myth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KORWIN: The Manchin-Toomey Gun Myth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It was sold as a simple, common sense, reasonable background check bill everyone could agree upon. 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