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flamin lib

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3. There is $1.4 Billion budgeted to improve and update the NICS.
Wed Jan 6, 2016, 10:20 AM
Jan 2016

It was passed by both houses and signed into law by George W. Bush. Only $200 million has been allocated by the House Budget Committee.

It's a notorious method of NRA obstruction, simply buy off a couple of crucial Republicans and effectively de-fund any attempt at regulation.

Most agencies budgets have increased by 40% over the last 20 years but the BATF&E's has increased only 4% effectively reducing actual spending on enforcement. ATF has fewer agents now than it did in 2006. The agency went without a director from 2006 to 2013 because the Senate would not confirm one. The current director, Bryan Jones, will retire this month. What are the chances that the Senate will confirm a new director? Yet the pro gun side insists that "all we have to do is enforce the laws we have."

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