Senate gun negotiators hit a snag on background checks

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

One of the remaining sticking points for Senate negotiators trying to get a deal this week on gun violence legislation: how big to go on background checks for gun sales.

At issue is whether to add waiting periods for young people purchasing firearms and to enable the FBI to conduct background checks on their juvenile records, two people close to the Senate talks told NBC News on Tuesday.

"It's hard to figure out how to do it right," one person said.

That’s a narrower approach than earlier legislation aimed at expanding background checks, including a decade-old bill written by two Senate negotiators — Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa. — that would require background checks for gun shows and internet sales.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-gun-negotiators-hit-a-snag-on-background-checks/ar-AAYbY5a

[TigressDem]

1. How long is a background check for a TECH apply to work with a Federal Agency's computers?

Same time should be allotted.


I don't know how long it takes for Federal but State is pretty quick, like 3 days.


Point is, it should still be thorough.

[mcar]

3. My son just started a job

with an IT company with a lot of state-level contracts. He's had to have background checks in every state the company works with.

Oklahoma came through first so that is the only state he can work with right now. He's been on the job 3 weeks.

These things take time. Why can't a thorough check for a gun license?

[TigressDem]

4. Yep.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. At last, the truth: ""It's hard to figure out how to do it right," one person said."

Exactly. One person said this. Everyone else can figure it out without a moment's hesitation.

[ripcord]

5. We should definitely include juvenile records in background checks for firearms

If someone uses a gun in a crime at 17 why on earth would we let them by one legally at 18?

[onecaliberal]

6. Of course they did. They were always going to hit a snag because rapeublicons refuse to do anything

[Just A Box Of Rain]

7. Do those doing security clearances for sensitive governmental agencies

currently have access to the otherwise sealed juvenile criminal histories of applicants?

Sincere question.

[llmart]

11. My guess is they do.

My son has top secret security clearance because he is a NASA engineer working at Kennedy Space Center. When he was hired he had to fill out an extensive form and he informed me that they also look into my background too. The clearance took about a month. I believe that they can request you take a polygraph test to verify if any of the answers you gave are false. The check involves not just criminal history but financial history and names of relatives.

[patphil]

8. This is typical Republican crapola.

Pretend to go along, and then find a sticking point that they can use to trash the whole deal.
It gives them cover. They can say they tried but Democrats were inflexible, or they wanted to go too far.
Checking juvenile records is certainly valid in this case.
If it wasn't this, it'd be something else.

The point is to pretend they care.

[Novara]

9. Jeebus fuck, THIS ISN'T THAT HARD

Children are getting slaughtered in their classrooms.

This ain't rocket surgery, folks.

Every single time you read "hit a snag," it means nothing will pass. They're not going to get 10 republicans to vote for anything that looks like a win for Democrats. Never. Not even with 19 dead children.

Oh, and while we're at it, has any R come out against the Uvalde police and their inaction? No? Well then, they are fine with child murder and police inaction.

[doc03]

10. Make it 21 to buy a gun period. I don't think anything will be passed, it is all

just a delaying tactic. A few years ago it was we have to have instant background checks.
Now they are done by computer, the last time I bought a gun I think it took 10 minutes at most. How
more instant can you get? There should be a background check on every gun sale it only takes a few minutes.
You should have to be 21 to buy center fire ammo too.