s brady bill loopholes hi i ve just finished reading s and have several questions about the brady bills s and hr are these the current versions of the brady bill what is the status of these bills i ve heard they re in committee how close is that to being made law s and hr seem fairly similar are there any important differences i missed s seems to have some serious loopholes a s doesn t specify an appeals process to wrongful denial during the waiting period other than a civil lawsuit s has an appeals process once the required instant background check system is established but not before b the police are explicitly not liable for mistakes in denying approving using existing records so who would i sue in a above to have an inaccurate record corrected c s includes an exception to waiting period clause for if a person can convince the local chief law enforcement officer cleo of an immediate threat to his or her life or life of a household member but s doesn t say exactly what is considered a threat nor does it place a limit on how long the cleo takes to issue an exception statement true have i misunderstood any other holes with just s what s to stop a person with a clean record from buying guns grinding off the serial numbers and selling them to crooks at minimum what additional laws are needed to prevent this seems at min a gun counting scheme would be needed e g john doe owns n guns so if s passes i wouldn t be surprised to see legislation for stricter harder to forge i d s plus national gun registration justified by a need to make the brady bill work please comment i m mainly interested in specific problems with the current legislation i don t mean to start a general discussion of the merits of any all waiting period bills ever proposed marks shepard netcom com
