ACLU speaks out on Reid gun control bill

So while the Maryland and Connecticut legislatures send their respective gun control measures to the step in their processes, the ACLU has finally made a statement in respect to the gun control coming to a vote in the US Senate, which we’re calling the Reid Gun Control Bill here. The ACLU raised constitutional concerns to The Daily Caller interestingly enough on privacy issues rather than Second Amendment guarantees;

Calabrese — a privacy lobbyist — was first careful to note that the ACLU doesn’t strictly oppose universal background checks for gun purchases. “If you’re going to require a background check, we think it should be effective,” Calabrese explained.

“However, we also believe those checks have to be conducted in a way that protects privacy and civil liberties.

Calabrese wouldn’t characterize the current legislation’s record-keeping provision as a “national gun registry” — which the White House has denied pursuing — but he did say that such a registry could be “a second step.”

I’d have rather had them weigh in on 2d Amendment, but I’ll take this one, too. While I don’t necessarily disagree with background checks, universal or otherwise, it’s a massive expenditure for something that won’t affect criminals, but rather only those who choose to comply with the law – the folks who probably aren’t going to commit crimes anyway. And storage of sales records doesn’t help the situation, anyway. So you have a list of a couple of million who own a certain type of gun that was used to commit a crime, it won’t help you find the perpetrator. It won’t keep the perp from committing the crime, so all you have is a list. And the only thing you can do with a list is start rounding up guns. So, if the ultimate goal isn’t national registration or confiscation, what use is keeping records of gun sales after the purchaser is approved by his background check?

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