Even without new legislation, there is nothing stopping gun dealers from raising concerns about customers, or denying a sale.
As veterans who have served in uniform in defense of this country, we are deeply troubled by the latest attacks against innocent people here at home. We cannot continue this cycle of national grief followed by collective amnesia. Enough is enough. The three latest terrorists were gun owners and as such, whether the other gun owners wish to admit it or not, they were members of the gun owners community.
We want to break down that code of silence amongst gun owners. We must remind them that if they see something that doesn't seem right, they have a duty to say something. Doing so is their duty as responsible citizens. Raising the alarm is by no means a violation or diminishment of the Second Amendment. Responsible gun owners have an obligation to speak out against dangerous, or even simply irresponsible, fellow gun owners.
But even when they obey the laws, gun dealers simply may not have enough information to assess who is"good" and who isn't. It is why we need to make sure that gun dealers can see data on potential customers, including whether or not a person is on a terrorist watch list. Dealers should have all the data relevant to deciding whether or not to conduct a sale.
Too often the idea of change is cast as either being too hard or the beginning stages of the wholesale repeal of the Second Amendment. This is absolutely false. Many of us are gun owners and we do not wish to alter or remove the Second Amendment. In fact, we wish to abide more closely by it, by giving the"well regulated" part its rightful due—just like we did when we were in the military.
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