While I find no Constitutional authority for the Feds to conduct background checks at all, I don’t realistically expect my point of view to prevail any time soon. Interestingly, Puckett and Howard share that view. Still, BIDS truly represents a rollback of infringements without giving up any ground through compromise, and would do much toward eliminating the danger of a gun owner registration database."A Request for BIDS," my February 2007 Rights Watch column for GUNS Magazine, is now online.
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