From: [b--n--n] at [popeye.jsc.nasa.gov] (Bob Hennan)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: local media lying about the Brady law
Date: 14 Mar 1995 02:54:37 GMT

|> No, those numbers aren't flawed. Just because you don't like to hear
|> them doesn't mean they are wrong. The fact remains, 45,000 people
|> were refused guns because of the Brady Law. Now, whether or not
|> they got them from another source is debatable, but 45,000 felons
|> trying to get guns tried legal channels. It makes me wonder how
|> many felons got their hands on guns by legal purchase in those
|> eight years the Brady Bill sat before the Congress. 
|> 
|> By the by, how do you know those numbers are flawed? Did you do
|> a survey yourself? Or is it just because it's the "liberal, anti-gun
|> media" enacting another conspiracy to disarm you so that they can
|> watch criminals assault you?

I *know* the numbers are flawed because I'm two of the 45,000. The Houston
Police Department have decided to provide as much Brady-induced
harrassment as posible. Most denials here are caused by traffic tickets.
Also, if you've ever been arrested for *anything*, you are denied. It 
doesn't matter if it was a misdemeanor or if you were even charged with
anything at all. This is what snagged me. And the interesting part is
that they don't keep the records of the check (by law), so I will
continue to get rejected for every handgun that I buy. Each time I must
bring my court records down to the police station to prove my innocence.
In the meantime, I keep showing up in Clinton's statistics as proof of
the Brady Law's effectiveness.

The Clinton administration must pad the numbers because the *real*
numbers are pathetic. Bottom line: the Brady Law is a waste of time and
money: the police's time and our money.
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