To: President Donald Trump
Bring the Brady Bill to the 21st century
Implement modern, centralized data stores in order to conduct rapid, accurate background checks. Utilize these centralized data stores to better identify and prosecute straw purchasers.
Why is this important?
Too often, unauthorized gun buyers are able to sneak past background checks; this is because background checks are conducted by fax machine, voice mail, and email. Too many straw purchasers are arming inner city gangs; they do this because we have no data analytics on bulk purchases (nor do we analyze who habitually reports bulk gun thefts).
I have no faith in the Congress to pass meaningful gun legislation. Thus, it is up to the Executive branch to manifest change via legal executive action. The Executive branch has been tasked with conducting background checks, and have been blessed with a budget to execute these laws.
It is well within the legal purview of the executive branch to implement these tools. It would take a big effort, but at least its possible. Legislative change, sadly, is not.
We need to modernize the system anyway; it is no longer the 1990's.
Let's stop talking about banning guns, and start banning fax machines instead.
I have no faith in the Congress to pass meaningful gun legislation. Thus, it is up to the Executive branch to manifest change via legal executive action. The Executive branch has been tasked with conducting background checks, and have been blessed with a budget to execute these laws.
It is well within the legal purview of the executive branch to implement these tools. It would take a big effort, but at least its possible. Legislative change, sadly, is not.
We need to modernize the system anyway; it is no longer the 1990's.
Let's stop talking about banning guns, and start banning fax machines instead.