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Liberal anti-gun paper praises "Wal-Mart's Gun Con
Josey1
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WAL-MART'S GUN CONTROL
Bravo to Wal-Mart for adopting a policy designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who are not legally allowed to own them. As the largest gun retailer in the country, Wal-Mart's tougher stance undoubtedly will save lives.
Under federal law, potential gun buyers must undergo a criminal-background check before they can walk out of a store with a firearm. Who can't buy a gun? People with a felony record, people who have been institutionalized or anyone deemed by authorities to be ineligible for other reasons.
But if agencies can't complete a background check within three days, retailers can go ahead and complete the sale, even though the customer's status remains unclear. The law opened a large loophole. The Wal-Mart initiative narrows the loophole.
As a result, the retailer won't sell a firearm to anyone until the background check is completed and the buyer is deemed eligible -- no matter how long the background check takes.
Wal-Mart executives were troubled by a study showing that, over a 30-month period, 10,000 felons and other ineligible persons bought guns because of the law's weakness.
Wal-Mart made a responsible decision, one that other gun sellers should emulate.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/3667112.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Bravo to Wal-Mart for adopting a policy designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who are not legally allowed to own them. As the largest gun retailer in the country, Wal-Mart's tougher stance undoubtedly will save lives.
Under federal law, potential gun buyers must undergo a criminal-background check before they can walk out of a store with a firearm. Who can't buy a gun? People with a felony record, people who have been institutionalized or anyone deemed by authorities to be ineligible for other reasons.
But if agencies can't complete a background check within three days, retailers can go ahead and complete the sale, even though the customer's status remains unclear. The law opened a large loophole. The Wal-Mart initiative narrows the loophole.
As a result, the retailer won't sell a firearm to anyone until the background check is completed and the buyer is deemed eligible -- no matter how long the background check takes.
Wal-Mart executives were troubled by a study showing that, over a 30-month period, 10,000 felons and other ineligible persons bought guns because of the law's weakness.
Wal-Mart made a responsible decision, one that other gun sellers should emulate.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/3667112.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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