Missouri GOP Fears National Gun Registry, Votes To End Issuing Driver’s Licenses In Response

[proud2BlibKansan]

The Missouri Senate voted to eliminate all funding for the state’s driver’s license bureau on Monday due to concerns about its keeping records of concealed-carry holders. The Raw Story reports that the chairman of the appropriations committee, Kurt Schaefer (R), admitted that the cut was made to send a message to Governor Jay Nixon (D) and his administration, and said, “They will not be able to issue any drivers’ licenses.”

The state of Missouri is reportedly only state to have its driver’s license bureau also be the agency that issues concealed carry permits. According to The Raw Story article, the state gave that power to the bureau ten years ago for the purpose of allowing law enforcement to be able to identify people who carried concealed weapons. However, Missouri lawmakers have gotten more concerned about the possibility that these records would be shared with the federal government, leading ultimately to confiscations of guns from law-abiding citizens.

Gun-confiscation paranoia has been around for quite awhile in our society. Much of this is due to the widespread slippery slope argument that the NRA makes, and that lawmakers, particularly Republican lawmakers, parrot, when it comes to universal background checks or other records tracking gun ownership and purchase, or any tiny bit of regulation regarding firearms.

Probably one of the most pertinent facts that people who trumpet the slippery slope argument regarding background checks and other recordkeeping ignore is that a national gun registry is illegal. Furthermore, the bi-partisan background check amendment that failed in the Senate last week, despite widespread support in the populace, made creating a federal gun registry an actual crime.

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[onehandle]

1. Came really close to moving to St. Louis for a job.

Glad we didn't.

[Thinkingabout]

2. A good point, what about social security and voter registration, this would be a good source to

Start a national registration. After all so many who wrote their Senators to vote against background checks actually got those Senators to vote against making it a crime to have a national register of gun owners. This would be a good time to create the register since nothing prohibits it.

They also passed up a chance to prevent terrorist from obtaining weapons to come and kill us, way to go, keep it up, you should be proud some Senators voted with the 10%. Now we have a target to aim for in the next election.