Law enforcement leaders join Gabrielle Giffords in gun control push

[TupperHappy]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/05/16/law-enforcement-leaders-join-gabrielle-giffords-in-gun-control-push/

A group of law enforcement leaders and gun control activists led by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly are launching a lobbying effort Tuesday to oppose Congressional bills which would decrease federal regulation of silencers and nationalize concealed carry permitting. The coalition argues that the bills would make law enforcement less safe.

In a memo expected to be sent to the White House, Capitol Hill and activists during National Police Week, the Law Enforcement Coalition for Common Sense details its opposition to two Congressional bills and renews a call to close loopholes in the background check system.

“[Congress] needs to reject irresponsible calls to mandate the unrestricted concealed carry of firearms and allow free access to dangerous silencers, which present a new menacing threat to our communities and law enforcement professionals,” the memo says. “It is clear that guns in dangerous hands make law enforcement officers more vulnerable.”

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Still, gun control proponents are concerned about a bill that would allow states to recognize concealed carry permits from all states nationwide. The coalition memo says the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” would effectively undermine or make ineffective state laws with different or stricter guidelines for permits.

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Supressors do not function like you see in the movies, with just a little PHFFT sound. They reduce the noise generated when a gun is fired, but only from literally deafening to merely really, really loud.

Also, regarding national CCW, sorry, but my rights do not end at the state line. Hopefully we will soon have a Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment means what it says about the right to keep AND BEAR (meaning carry) arms.

[yagotme]

1. Let's do it like automobiles (like gun banners want to do with licensing),

make it across state lines. I can drive my car in any state of the Union without getting a special permit from each state. And I think that the BATF is considering removing silencers from the Form 4 requirements. Supposedly a White Letter running around somewhere ( an FFL should have one, I'd think).

And welcome to DU!