National Shooting Sports Foundation: with friends like this, who needs the BATFE?
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It never ceases to amaze me that so many in the firearms industry, including the organizations and the public, just take the anti-gun pablum with alacrity. This is not the first time that the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has taken the government’s BS hook, line, and sinker. The NSSF seems to be totally ignorant of the crap that Sullivan et. al. are pulling at the ATF.
The supposed purpose of the NSSF “… is to provide trusted leadership in addressing industry challenges and in delivering programs and services to meet the identified needs of our members.” What a crock. There is no way I would trust the NSSF, their ‘leadership’ is a joke, they certainly are not addressing industry challenges (I call the BATFE stealing software a challenge), and they deliver pablum so you’ll easily swallow their BS. It is getting so that the only national group I can consistently believe and trust is the Gun Owners of America.
Be very critical of the stuff championed by the NSSF and the NRA. They have the same agenda, kiss up to those in government to remain slurping at the trough. Politically, these organizations will lead us skipping off the abyss.
From a NSSF email dated 11/24/2008 entitled “Firearms Industry Lauds Development of
Electronic Form 4473 at ATF Press Conference”:
Speaking at a press conference at the Maryland Small Arms Range in Upper Marlboro, Md., the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced the launch of an electronic Form 4473 — the Firearms Transaction Record which must be filled out any time a person buys a firearm from a licensed firearms dealer. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) — the trade association for the firearms industry — hailed the development of the electronic document. {THE NSSF IS NOT SUPPORTING THE FIGHT TO RETAIN OUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS! Hailing the stealing of software my arse.}
As part of the announcement, the ATF issued a ruling allowing firearms retailers to choose between a free downloadable version of the Form 4473 from the ATF Web site or an alternative commercial software-based version of the Form 4473, provided certain requirements are met by the vendor.
“The E-4473 will help all firearms retailers, especially small independent retailers, by giving the federal firearms licensee an opportunity to reduce costs and further enhance compliance issues by eliminating — or at the very least reducing — innocent mistakes caused by human error,”
said NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane. {Who does Larry think he’s fooling? When does ANY federal department use the stealing of software as an opportunity to reduce costs (JOKE!) and enhance compliance issues (Larry – crawl back under your rock until the ATF turns it over again). Do I hear a sucking sound or what!?}
The E-4473 will be entirely voluntary {voluntary until manditory – wait and see} — voluntary for the dealer and voluntary for the customer. Furthermore, the E-4473 is not part of a government database, and it is not connected to any government computer or exchange. {Who ever wrote this has no idea what is in the software. The person who made that statement is ignorant regarding computer software. Prove your statement! You can’t. Nor is there any assurance that it would NEVER be part of a government db. Sullivan has just a purpose in mind. This was blogged over a year ago!}
“Clearly NSSF would never support a database of law-abiding Americans choosing to exercise their second amendment right to keep and bear arms,” continued Keane. “The E-4473 does not infringe upon this most profound freedom.” {Keane is being less than genuinely honest here. He actually does not have a clue. This is why YOU MUST NOT TRUST THE NSSF!}
Background Information on the Form 4473:
The Form 4473 is the federal document that must be completed prior to purchasing a firearm from a licensed firearm retailer. The document asks for the purchaser’s name, address, driver’s license or identification number, National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) transaction number (authorizing and approving the transaction to the buyer), serial number and the make and model of the firearm.
The Form 4473 includes a federal affidavit to be completed by the purchaser stating that he or she is eligible to purchase the firearm(s) under federal law. The purchaser also affirms that he or she is the actual buyer of the firearm. Lying on this form is a felony and punishable by up to five years in prison, in addition to fines, even if the firearm is never transferred.
The firearms dealer is required to keep the Form 4473 for 20 years, and all records are subject to inspection by the ATF. The licensed dealer must also record information from the Form 4473 into an “A & D book” — a bound book of acquisitions and dispositions of all firearms sold and acquired by the retailer.
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