re: #254 Targetpractice

They’re saying the usual, namely that any gun control passed will have to be sabotaged in such a way as to render it effectively useless. Shifting the cost of background checks onto the government means they can just vote, at one level or another, to cut that funding and ensure that gun shops aren’t running background checks due to lack of funding. When the number of checks goes down and guns in the hands of those who shouldn’t have them rise, they declare this “proof” that background checks are ineffective and push to abandon them.

That wouldn’t work, because the checks are required by law and I don’t see Obama signing anything that would weaken that requirement. Thus all cutting such funds would do would be to produce a backlog of gun buyers who can’t take home their guns because their background checks haven’t been done. I can’t see the House trying to pass something that would inevitably lead to such an outcome.