Would You Compromise?

[Straightshooter2]

First of all, I'm not in favor of the "Universal Background Check" as is being touted by Democrats/gun control advocates. Now, that being said, what if you could get something in exchange for it such as a National Concealed Carry Permit but if, and only if, after a background check, the records are required by law to be destroyed. Would that be a compromise you could live with?

CW

 

[labworm]

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

 

[Alnamvet68]

Beware of Trojans hidden in giant wooden Clysdales.

 

[mstuhr]

Yes

Howdy,
I think I would. They already know I've got them.
I often thought about a card that allowed a person to buy sell and carry nationwide.
Show the card, do the 4473 take your purchase and go about your business.
I shouldn't have to have one to do it. But me personally? I would sign off or sign up for one as things stand now.
Basicly I have get permission to buy or carry as things are. I see it as nationwide expansion at no added expense.
Thanks
Mike

 

[Maddmax]

"the records are required by law to be destroyed". And we all know how that can work. Who's going to check the checker ?

 

[looseman]

"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."


"Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."


"From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned."


"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both."


"Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward."

 

[Faulkner]

Universal background checks are the camel's nose under the tent.

 

[Jyezahn]

Too much compromising already... no more.

 

[Aticus]

Grandma used to say "give 'em an inch they'll take a foot."

 

[Nico Testosteros]

I've never bought a gun from a private seller so all my guns have been via a background check.

 

[Old TexMex]

They can check my background when there is "probable cause", or when I enter the country from a foreign nation.
"shall not be infringed"

 

[mc5aw]

Universal background checks are just the tip of the broccoli stalk ...

 

[Faulkner]

I've never bought a gun from a private seller so all my guns have been via a background check.

Interesting . . . the majority of my collection of firearms came from private sellers, in part so that there is not a trail to track my legal to own private property.

 

[sps282]

That is still chipping away at the 2nd

 

[Harrison]

I think the word compromise is a poor choice or term. It would be better to pose the question as, given a choice which would you choose, background checks, or national concealed carry?

 

[H Richard]

"If" we could trust them to destroy the paperwork I might be in favor, BUT, have we ever been able to trust a politician?

 

[Col. Plink]

Universal background checks are the camel's nose under the tent.

How true. I see the required registration as part of the background check as the first step toward taxing firearms so oppressively that nobody can afford them over time. Plus required liability insurance, permits, licenses, fees, ... the list of potential costs would be endless.

Anybody thinking this will cost us nothing has not been paying attention to what's been going on for the past 5 (or realistically 10, 15, 20) years in Washington DC.

They ask for the outrageous, there is grumbling, and then they become "reasonable", back off and settle for something less that all of a sudden seems palatable. And the cycle repeats, and it never stops. Never.

 

[baldeagle8888]

The comments by previous posters are in the correct vein but additional info for ALL to bear in mind. I'm not aware of any bill passed by "Congress" and "Signed" into law without a sunset, ever being repealed, but surely added to and changed "YES". Remember, any law passed by one Congress can be voided by later ones, but "RIGHTS" taken away or surrended are lost forever.

baldeagle8888

 

[loutent]

Let the other side compromise.

 

[Grayfox]

I'm against universal background checks. Those problems have already been discussed.
I am also against any type of National Concealed Carry Permit. Do you really want the Federal Government / Congress deciding who can or can't have a permit. Do you really want them making the rules? Them setting the standards?
What we want is National CCW Reciprocity. Wherein all states are required to honor all other states CCW permits in the same way they honor all other state's driver's licenses. This way the States still have control over the permits. Not the Feds.