Weer'd World

To this nonsense:

Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy want some of the nation’s largest sporting goods stores to wait for the FBI to complete background checks on gun purchasers in all cases – and hope customers boycott those stores if they don’t.

Blumenthal and Murphy have signed letters to Cabela’s, Bass Pro Shops and EZ Pawn asking them to voluntarily close a what they call a loophole in the federal background check law. This “default to proceed” provision allows retailers to sell an applicant a gun if the FBI has not responded to a background check request within 72 hours.

Honestly I hope the stores tell them to fuck off. It’s not like these turds own guns, hunt, or even know how to bait a hook (let alone tie one), nor does any major amount of their constituency, so I doubt there are many Blumenthal or Murphy bumper stickers in your local Cabella’s or Bass Pro. Never heard of EZ Pawn, but I assume they are a pawn shop chain that deals in guns. Yeah “Progressives” are icked out by Pawn shops, and generally don’t believe in loans and would rather acquire cash through government subsidy.

The issue of the three-day waiting period is being debated because **REDACTED**, who is accused of killing nine people at a black church in Charleston, S.C., last month, was able to purchase the gun used in the attack only because the FBI needed more than three days to investigate his criminal record. **REDACTED** had been recently arrested.

Of course what they don’t talk about is how the killer had the gun for WEEKS before the murders. So maybe, rather than harassing law-abiding American Companies, maybe we should tell the FBI to do their fucking job???