{"id":68373,"date":"2021-05-26T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68373"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:08:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:08:35","slug":"68373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68373","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Below the Radar: Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act<\/a><\/p>\n

The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) has always been a flashpoint of contention among Second Amendment supporters. \u201cNo compromise\u201d types viewed the push for NICS in 1993 as a sellout, while those who were of the incrementalist school of thought pointed out \u2013 justifiably \u2013 that NICS prevented a permanent waiting period<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this light, we come to\u00a0S 1261<\/a>, the Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act, introduced by Senator Tom Cotton, a Second Amendment champion. This bill is a narrower version of the\u00a0NICS Denial Notification Act<\/a>, since it is strictly aimed at those in the country illegally. This falls under the \u201cenforce existing laws\u201d argument that some Second Amendment supporters have\u00a0successfully wielded<\/a>\u00a0to halt anti-Second Amendment efforts in the past \u2013 see\u00a0Project Exile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Under 18 USC 922, illegal aliens are prohibited from possessing any type of firearm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regardless of your opinion on whether or not illegal immigration is a threat to the Second Amendment, this is a law that should be enforced, if for no other reason than a conviction for a federal felony charge serves as grounds for deportation. But on a more important factor, this legislation could be an opening for Second Amendment supporters in places where MS-13 runs rampant.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Already anti-Second Amendment extremists like\u00a0Senator Chris Murphy<\/a>\u00a0are trying to put the blame for the rise in violent crime on law-abiding gun owners. Allowing that nonsense narrative to take hold would be tactical and\u00a0strategic incompetence<\/a>. Between the prohibition on illegal aliens possessing firearms of any sort, and the sentencing enhancements from\u00a018 USC 924<\/a>, a lot of bad guys can be put away for a very long time, and it would greatly reduce violent crime involving the misuse of firearms. Second Amendment supporters need to get ahead of this by highlighting just what current laws can do in some cases, and to put anti-Second Amendment extremists on record as refusing to use those tools.<\/p>\n

When corrupt big-city mayors \u2013 or other anti-Second Amendment extremists \u2013 refuse to enforce laws, then demand that injustice be inflicted on those law-abiding American citizens who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights, pointing to the tools they refuse to use can expand the pro-Second Amendment coalition that makes winning elections easier. When we win elections and have Second Amendment supporters running legislatures and in governor\u2019s mansions (or the White House), defending our rights is a much easier task.<\/p>\n

The reality is that NICS will be part of the landscape for a while. The question is whether Second Amendment supporters can make lemonade out of a lemon. Second Amendment supporters should contact their Representative and Senators and urge them to support this bill. In addition, they need to support the NRA\u2019s\u00a0Institute for Legislative Action<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Political Victory Fund<\/a>\u00a0to ensure that the current anti-Second Amendment regimes in the House, Senate, and White House \u2013 and those at the state and local level \u2013 are defeated at the ballot box as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below the Radar: Illegal Alien NICS Alert Act The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) has always been a flashpoint of contention among Second Amendment supporters. \u201cNo compromise\u201d types viewed the push for NICS in 1993 as a sellout, while those who were of the incrementalist school of thought pointed out \u2013 justifiably \u2013 that … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-law-order","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68375,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68373\/revisions\/68375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}