5 Indefensible Tweets From The NRA Since The Oregon Gun Massacre

[Orrex]

15. We've basically been over this already

Universal background checks, absolutely. Every gun sale, no exceptions. A seller who fails to perform a background check or who completes a sale in spite of a failed background check must forfeit all guns currently in his inventory and must be forever barred from conducting or facilitating firearm sales.

Complete registry of all gun vendors, easily accessible to the public on demand.

And you know that we disagree on the need for and propriety of a national gun registry. Absent such a registry, which in spite of the ACLU I consider reasonable and justifiable, a failed background check should also go on a public registry. The reason for the failure need not be given; it is sufficient to reveal that the person failed.

My home ownership is a matter of public record, as is the dollar amount that I paid for my home and the fact that I lost my previous home to foreclosure. Therefore I reject as inconsistent nonsense any claim that a registry of gun ownership is a violation of privacy.