Yesterday it took another step:
When are we going to learn that giving more information to the Federal Government is NOT a good thing.
A little recent news about how information mainlined to the Feds is used and abused:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/19/who-should-have-access-to-student-records
Same thing with medical records, employment records...on and on.
Considering how gun owners have been targeted in the past, it simply amazes me that we would be naive enough to fall for this crap.
Summary as introduced:
Criminal history record information checks upon handgun purchases; protective order registry; dissemination of information. Provides that certain criminal history record information and protective order registry information shall be made available to the Attorney General of the United States for the purposes of a National Instant Criminal Background check to determine a person’s eligibility to possess or purchase a firearm under state or federal law. The bill also limits the requirement for a Virginia-specific criminal history record information check to the purchase of handguns only. Under current law, the Virginia-specific criminal history record information check applies to all purchases of any firearm in the Commonwealth. Full text:
01/10/12 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12103492D pdf
Status:
01/10/12 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12103492D
01/10/12 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
01/23/12 House: Referred from Courts of Justice by voice vote
01/23/12 House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
When are we going to learn that giving more information to the Federal Government is NOT a good thing.
A little recent news about how information mainlined to the Feds is used and abused:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/19/who-should-have-access-to-student-records
Since “No Child Left Behind” was passed 10 years ago, states have been required to ramp up the amount of data they collect about individual students, teachers, and schools. Personal information, including test scores, economic status, grades, and even disciplinary problems and student pregnancies, are tracked and stored in a kind of virtual “permanent record” for each student.
Privacy experts say the problem is that states collect far more information than parents expect, and it can be shared with more than just a student’s teacher or principal.“When you have a system that’s secret [from parents] and you can put whatever you want into it, you can have things going in that’ll be very damaging,” says Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “When you put something into digital form, you can’t control where that’ll end up.”
Same thing with medical records, employment records...on and on.
Considering how gun owners have been targeted in the past, it simply amazes me that we would be naive enough to fall for this crap.