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Originally Posted by Cameron Swift
...which no matter how you feel about guns, we can all agree is ridiculously stupid. How does that even benefit the NRA?
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The way it benefits them is that is essentially eliminates a registry, the existence of which wouldn't keep crimes from being committed. Even the LGR in Canada didn't stop the illegal use of guns. Not only that, it was riddled with inaccuracies and excessively expensive for any benefits, real or perceived, that it provided.
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Originally Posted by wittynickname
This is where there's huge disconnect from what is reasonable and what the NRA pushes for.
The NRA doesn't want to modernize background checks and they push to keep record-keeping archaic. I'd have to find the clip at some time when I'm not on my phone at work, but Last Week Tonight showed a segment about the way background check information is kept...and it's all paper. Microfilm is as advanced as it gets, because the NRA lobbied to get and keep it that way.
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The NICS system is separate from the Tracing Center and is electronic, which allows it to be instant. During a background check, the Tracing Center would not be queried, only the NICS system. The updates to the NICS system would be to ensure records are being properly added and collected from submitting agencies, expanding the reliability of the check performed by increasing the amount of data polled. Changing the way the Tracing Center operates (non-electronic records) would require the creation of a gun registry, which they are currently prohibited by law from going. Even then, it would only lead to the original buyer.