"COMPROMISE" PROPOSAL FLOATED?

While the juvenile justice legislation is still pending in a conference committee, reports of a "compromise" proposal concerning the gun show issue have been circulating on Capitol Hill.

      Under this draft proposal, records of approved purchases under NICS would be destroyed "within 24 hours." This is unacceptable to NRA, for the law says that purchases not denied under NICS must be destroyed immediately.

      The draft also envisions a modified three-day delay in circumstances where the system discovers an arrest or other similar record indicating that transfer of the firearm may violate the law. Like the 24-hour record retention, we also oppose this three-day wait provision, as the NICS system was intended to approve transfers "if the receipt of a firearm would not violate" federal or state law.

      Mere arrest records, which may not contain final dispositions, are inconsistent with the stated purpose of NICS. Only convictions, not arrests, are disqualifiers for gun ownership. Rather than applying band-aids to the current shortcomings of NICS, we will continue to ask Congress to address the core problems concerning deficiencies with the system.

Complete Juvenile Justice Bill FAX Alert Series

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