NRA-ILA's Baker Responds
To USA Today
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"...the Clinton/Reno DOJ squandered... the
opportunity to design and implement an efficient and effective NICS..." |
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James Jay Baker |
On Thursday, USA Today ran a story that highlighted the shortcomings of
the National Instant Check System (NICS). While some in the anti-gun
community have leapt at the opportunity to use the story to try to promote
their anti-gun agenda - including HCI, the gun-ban lobby - NRA-ILA Executive
Director James Jay Baker responded to the article with a
Letter-to-the-Editor that carefully explains that any problems with NICS
can be attributed to the Clinton/Reno Department of Justice (DOJ).
In his
letter, Baker explains that the Clinton/Reno DOJ squandered not only the
opportunity to design and implement an efficient and effective NICS - most
likely because a successful NICS would have meant a victory for NRA - but in
doing so, also squandered more than $300 million in taxpayer money.
We
hope that USA Today will publish the letter from Baker on Monday, April 2,
but we have also posted a copy of it to NRAILA.org, along with a longer
version we dispatched to Capitol Hill. For those not on the Internet, you
can call the Grassroots Division at (800) 392-8683 and request a copy of
the letter.
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