red states rule
01-31-2013, 03:24 AM
While it is rare, it is refreshing to see a member of this administration tell the truth. The Obama Justice Department is way to busy running guns into Mexico. Intimidating private companies to conform to Obamacare. And continuing their war on capitalism
So it is undersatndbale this admistration does not give a dman about those people who lie on their background checks when they want to purchase a gun.
This administration does not give a damn about the US Constitution so why should they give a damn about the law?
During the National Rifle Association’s meeting (http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/10/nra-says-meeting-with-biden-was-disappointing/) with Vice President Joe Biden (http://topics.dailycaller.com/whitehouse/joe-biden.htm) and the White House gun violence task force, the vice president said the Obama administration does not have the time to fully enforce existing gun laws.
Jim Baker, the NRA representative present at the meeting, recalled the vice president’s words during an interview with The Daily Caller: “And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don’t have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately.”
Submitting false information on an ATF Form 4473 (http://www.atf.gov/forms/download/atf-f-4473-1.pdf) — required for the necessary background check to obtain a firearm — is a felony punishable (http://www.atf.gov/publications/download/p/atf-p-5300-4.pdf) by up to ten years in prison, depending on prior convictions and a judge’s discretion, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Baker, the NRA’s director of federal affairs, told TheDC that he was given five minutes to present the NRA’s concerns and the approach the group saw as being the most effective to prevent another massacre like the Newtown, Conn. shooting. During those five minutes, he said, he mentioned the need to prosecute existing gun laws.
He pointed to the low number of prosecutions for information falsification and the relatively low felony prosecution rate for gun crimes.
Biden was apparently unmoved by Baker’s concern.
In 2010, prosecutors considered just 22 cases of information falsification, according to a 2012 report (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/grants/239272.pdf) to the Department of Justice by the Regional Justice Information Service. Forty additional background-check cases ended up before prosecutors for reasons related to unlawful gun possession.
In all, prosecutors pursued just 44 of those 62 cases. More than 72,600 applications were denied on the basis of a background check.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/18/biden-to-nra-we-dont-have-the-time-to-prosecute-people-who-lie-on-background-checks/#ixzz2JbAz5aYu
So it is undersatndbale this admistration does not give a dman about those people who lie on their background checks when they want to purchase a gun.
This administration does not give a damn about the US Constitution so why should they give a damn about the law?
During the National Rifle Association’s meeting (http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/10/nra-says-meeting-with-biden-was-disappointing/) with Vice President Joe Biden (http://topics.dailycaller.com/whitehouse/joe-biden.htm) and the White House gun violence task force, the vice president said the Obama administration does not have the time to fully enforce existing gun laws.
Jim Baker, the NRA representative present at the meeting, recalled the vice president’s words during an interview with The Daily Caller: “And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don’t have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately.”
Submitting false information on an ATF Form 4473 (http://www.atf.gov/forms/download/atf-f-4473-1.pdf) — required for the necessary background check to obtain a firearm — is a felony punishable (http://www.atf.gov/publications/download/p/atf-p-5300-4.pdf) by up to ten years in prison, depending on prior convictions and a judge’s discretion, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Baker, the NRA’s director of federal affairs, told TheDC that he was given five minutes to present the NRA’s concerns and the approach the group saw as being the most effective to prevent another massacre like the Newtown, Conn. shooting. During those five minutes, he said, he mentioned the need to prosecute existing gun laws.
He pointed to the low number of prosecutions for information falsification and the relatively low felony prosecution rate for gun crimes.
Biden was apparently unmoved by Baker’s concern.
In 2010, prosecutors considered just 22 cases of information falsification, according to a 2012 report (https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/grants/239272.pdf) to the Department of Justice by the Regional Justice Information Service. Forty additional background-check cases ended up before prosecutors for reasons related to unlawful gun possession.
In all, prosecutors pursued just 44 of those 62 cases. More than 72,600 applications were denied on the basis of a background check.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/18/biden-to-nra-we-dont-have-the-time-to-prosecute-people-who-lie-on-background-checks/#ixzz2JbAz5aYu