Ask your Representatives and Congresscritters to oppose HR821

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/821

Each of us needs to get friends and family to reach out (snail mail, phone calls, email, office visits) to our House and Senate members (yes we know some of you have Antis for representation so we don't need to hear you get off track complaining about that) to oppose HR821. Tell them, "I expect you to oppose HR821's bad faith attempt to hold information on private citizens beyond the current limit in the NICS system. NICS needs fixing, but this serves no purpose but to indefinitely violate the privacy of voters."

Why? From Ammoland -

The NICS Review Act is intended to start the process of turning NICS into a registration system. Under current law, information on transactions that have not been denied is to be destroyed within 24 hours. The intent is to preserve the privacy of Americans who choose to exercise a constitutional right. Maloney has talked about privacy before and it has been a big deal for her on other issues.

But with the NICS Review Act, she wants the FBI to hold on to data about non-denied firearms transactions for at least 90 days. That is a huge change on two counts. One, the FBI can retain the records for much longer, almost three months. That’s bad enough for all sorts of mischief, and Maloney’s long anti-Second Amendment track record points to a desire to at least enable mischief targeting our rights.

But the real slick move on Maloney’s part is that she has now made the 90-day period a floor, instead of a limit. In short, the FBI could retain the records as long as they want. This makes her bill extremely dangerous, and it is an excellent tactical move on her part. She can paint this as a minor bill, and paint opposition to it as “those Second Amendment types being unreasonable.” But combine that change with “universal background checks” and a little bad faith, and all of a sudden, you now can create a national registry of firearms transactions with the stroke of an anti-Second Amendment president’s pen.

Second Amendment supporters need to contact their Representative and Senators to politely urge that they oppose this bill. They also need to take the time and use this bill to explain to their fellow Americans why anti-Second Amendment extremists aren’t really proposing “reasonable” solutions.

 

[Craig_AR]

I would not get too worried about this H.R. 821. It is not worth wasting a message to your Congress Critter unless it starts getting support and moving forward. First, there are no co-sponsors, meaning even the most rabid anti-gunners in the House see no benefit (either for political credit or public safety) in attaching their names to the idea. Second, it has been languishing in a sub-committee for over 15 months with no reported hearing or subcommittee vote. See the details on actions on the bill at
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/821/all-actions
03/25/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Action By: Committee on the Judiciary
01/28/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Action By: House of Representatives
01/28/2019 Introduced in House
Action By: House of Representatives