thought there might have been something that came up about it. either expanding or repealing it.
if just general thoughts I think its like most of the government, but even more so with any gun control measure.
A supposedly good intentioned measure that ends up being ineffective and often harmful. used by various agencies to expand their powers in unlawful and Unconstitutional ways. Further, I believe the ineffectiveness is driven by two things, just overall government bureaucracy incompetence, and also harmful intent by those who wrote who either intended it to fail to allow for greater measures later, or designed it to be used for their own political uses.
The Brady Bill was just the previous attempt at the red flag laws. it's a system intended to deny the legal purchase of firearms to anyone with various red flags with no due process or transparency. its supposed to be a system with no record keeping of purchases, but it has been admitted multiple times by the FBI that they do keep records.
It doesn't work, because many criminals don't buy their guns legally. or the new criminal got their gun before they did anything worth being flagged over. and various adjustments have been fought by both sides. The Dems have wanted to increase the time delay for the review, but have also blocked various measures to include mental illnesses or residency status "upgrades". Several people, Hunter Biden, have been able to "slip through the cracks" and make "legal" purchases getting past the back ground checks when they shouldn't, fun fact when this happens to most people aka NOT Hunter Biden, the FBI can turn around and slap you with an additional crime for their failures, doesn't always happen but it has. The cracks are due to demand, and lack of reporting of various red flags. The FBI hosts the database, but it takes data from multiple local and state sources, so if various entities don't report information to the FBI their database is incomplete. again some of this is plane over worked government employees, some of its incompetence and some of it is purposefully done, the various DAs who have been releasing criminals are liable to not report those red flags along. this is part of why you see so many cases of someone getting released early or light, and then turn around and do something illegal with a new gun.
The Dems have also pushed back on expanding funding for the background checks. Typically its argued against because its not enough, and they want to do more. and instead of taking the compromise, they go absolutist and want to focus efforts on bans instead of enforcing the laws already in place. The R's tend to fight any expansion because of the Unconstitutional nature of the measures sought by Democrats, and the sheer ineffectiveness of the system.
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