Bloomberg and guns again
This time, he and his coalition are targeting the Tiahrt Amendment which proposes that NICS data is destroyed within 24 hours. Currently, there is essentially a backdoor gun registry. A full-fledged registry is illegal, under federal law, except for weapons regulated under the National Firearms Act (machine guns, short-barreled rifles, suppressors, etc.).
The Tiahrt amendment also prohibits the release of documents that can be kept on gun owners (such as if you buy 3 or more handguns in five days, your info goes to the ATF). And the bill also prohibits release of trace data to entities who are not police. This latter fact is apparently ignored by the anti-gunners who push the notion that this bill is anti-police. PGP has more.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:40 am
I think it is two or more…