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Paul Helmke released the following recommendations in a speech at the National Press Club. Here it is from the horse’s ass:

• Pass the NICS Improvement Act, introduced by Representative Carolyn McCarthy. This legislation provides funding incentives for states to provide appropriate records to strengthen the information in NICS.
• Require background checks for all gun sales, not just those from federally licensed dealers.
• Rescind the requirement requiring that records of Brady background checks be destroyed within 24 hours of purchase approval.
• Impose a waiting period under the Brady Law, to allow time to do accurate and complete review of appropriate records.
• Reinstate the Federal ban on ammunition magazines of larger than 10 rounds that expired along with the Federal assault weapons ban in 2004, and pass a ban on military-style assault weapons.
• Repeal the so-called “Tiahrt Amendment,” which as an annual appropriations rider bars the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from sharing data on the sources of guns used in crimes.
• Require that new semi-automatic handguns be equipped with technology to allow police to quickly match shell casings found at a crime scene to the handgun from which they were fired. This technology, known as “microstamping,” would enhance law enforcement’s ability to rapidly solve gun crimes. Source: EarthTimes

There it is, boys and girls. When you read between the lines, what you see is a national computer database of gun owners containing extensive and detailed information about every gun owner in America. And, of course, that absurd microstamping proposal is thrown in just to ice the cake.