Fix NICS bill

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Ok. I hate it. But for God's sake, it's the NICS (National Instant Check System), NOT NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service)...

If they truly wanted to "fix" the NICS, the first thing they would need to do is wipe the database. Some estimates put the error rate as high as 30 percent. In some ways, Colorado's system, with some local control, is better. But Colorado's system is far from perfect, as it leans heavily on the NICS database for convictions outside of Colorado. Unfortunately, we let the door open when the Brady Bill passed without significant challenge(abetted by the NRA).


I recently had a chat with an antigun friend(who of course claimed NOT to be anti 2A, but wants to ban ARs) about background checks for private sales. I told him that as a responsible gun owner, I would like to try to make sure that I was not selling to a known "bad guy". I proposed a database that was A) Accurate, B) Transparent(unlike the mysterious"no fly" list), C)Real time, D)Publicly accessible, and E) could be checked anonymously(and for free over the internet). I truly believe that many gun owners would use such a service of their own accord. Instead we have a system which is inaccurate, opaque, has no real recourse or due process, is only accessible to those that pay hundreds of dollars for a dealer license and agree to keep records for many years, and can take anywhere from minutes to days to return a result that has a 30 percet chance of being incorrect.