What Is the Tiahrt Amendment? (you won't like it)

[donsu]

http://www.protectpolice.org/index2.html


The “Tiahrt Amendment” is a provision members of Congress have tucked into federal spending bills that restricts cities and police from accessing and using ATF trace data from guns recovered in crimes.


Gun trace data helps police figure out where illegal guns are coming from, who buys them and how they get trafficked into their communities.

The Tiahrt Amendment restricts a city’s access to:

its own crime gun trace data;
crime gun trace data from other cities and states;
crime gun trace data as evidence in trying to hold dealers accountable for violating the law; and,
annual ATF reports on nationwide illegal gun trafficking patterns that were once valuable tools for local police.
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gun manufacturers love the "Tiahrt"

a pox on the gun barons

[Felix Mala]

1. More proof, gun laws "never work..."

They are created with "failure" built into them...

[WiseButAngrySara]

2. I'm sorry, I don't know why gun manufacturers will love this.

The guns involved in crime are always purchased from gun manufacturers. Why would this help them in any way? Pardon my obtuseness, but I really don't get it. The amendment sounds ridiculous though. Who would vote for this? We don't want to sove crimes?

[Judi Lynn]

3. This is beyond belief, donsu. This is one radically diseased Republican.

He may be trying to pick up the slack after the House lost its prominent predatory lackey/clown Tom DeLay.



Tiahrt, DeLay

[Hangingon]

4. Delay was in the House of Representatives

[Judi Lynn]

5. Was in too much of a hurry. I knew that. Sorry. I'm correcting it. n/t