Statement from Chris W. Cox, NRA-ILA Executive Director
Regarding inaccurate NBC story alleging that NRA won't oppose background check bill.
An article appearing today on NBCNews.com is falsely reporting that NRA will not oppose legislation being negotiated in the U.S. Senate that would mandate background checks for all gun purchasers.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03...
The story posted on NBCNews.com alleges that NRA will not oppose expanding the background check system to include all private firearm sales, "provided the legislation does not require private gun sellers to maintain records of the checks". This statement is completely untrue. The NRA opposes criminalizing private firearms transfers between law-abiding individuals, and therefore opposes an expansion of the background check system.
The NRA supports meaningful efforts to address the problems of violent crime and mass violence in America, through swift and certain prosecution of violent criminals; securing our schools; and fixing our broken mental health system.
An article appearing today on NBCNews.com is falsely reporting that NRA will not oppose legislation being negotiated in the U.S. Senate that would mandate background checks for all gun purchasers.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03...
The story posted on NBCNews.com alleges that NRA will not oppose expanding the background check system to include all private firearm sales, "provided the legislation does not require private gun sellers to maintain records of the checks". This statement is completely untrue. The NRA opposes criminalizing private firearms transfers between law-abiding individuals, and therefore opposes an expansion of the background check system.
The NRA supports meaningful efforts to address the problems of violent crime and mass violence in America, through swift and certain prosecution of violent criminals; securing our schools; and fixing our broken mental health system.
Mark Kelly’s story on AR-15 purchase prompts skeptical open letter
I see from comments on related articles and your own Facebook page that people are skeptical, and dismissing your story as disingenuous damage control. And it hasn’t been helped by a new video interview released this morning by USA Today (one of those ethical Gannett newspapers!) which does its best to give you cover, beginning with the title “Mark Kelly buys assault weapon to make a point,” but ends up failing miserably in that goal, and actually makes things worse, if you can believe it -- and why wouldn’t we?
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation...
“Gabby Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, announced that he bought an assault weapon to make a point about gun control,’ the video caption explains. “He plans to sell it over state lines.”
...
Here’s the thing, Captain: 18 U.S.C. § 922 (a) states “It shall be unlawful … for any person … except a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer, to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, or dealing in firearms, or in the course of such business to ship, transport, or receive any firearm in interstate or foreign commerce.”
And if you were really planning to do that, there's this little matter of section 11.a. on the ATF Form 4473 ...
Were you planning to break federal law to make the case for new ones? I’m not following your logic.
http://www.examiner.com/article/mark-kelly...