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Gun Owners of America: FBI Actions Prove Background Checks Unconstitutional

by AWR Hawkins On January 25 Gun Owners of America executive director emeritus Larry Pratt told Breitbart News the FBI’s arbitrary halt to processing appeals for background check denials is more evidence that “background checks are not constitutional” to begin with. Pratt intimated that the idea that the government can wedge itself between the people and the exercise of fundamental rights was foreign to the minds of the framers. He said: Hopefully we will learn what should have been the lesson from the beginning–these background checks are not constitutional. When a fundamentally protected right–like the Second Amendment–is placed in the… View Article