The DC - EXCLUSIVE: ACLU says Reid’s gun legislation could threaten privacy rights, civil liberties

[Subdeacon Joe]

EXCLUSIVE: ACLU says Reid’s gun legislation could threaten privacy rights, civil liberties

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/04/exclusive-aclu-says-reids-gun-legislation-could-threaten-privacy-rights-civil-liberties/#ixzz2PqNJvOhQ

As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control

legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union now says it’s among

those who have “serious concerns” about the bill.

Those concerns have the capacity to prove a major setback to Sen.

Harry Reid’s current gun bill, which includes language from earlier

bills introduced by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Barbara Boxer.

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, a top lobbyist for

the ACLU announced that the group thinks Reid’s current gun bill could

threaten both privacy rights and civil liberties.

 

The inclusion of universal background checks — the poll-tested

lynchpin of most Democratic proposals — “raises two significant

concerns,” the ACLU’s Chris Calabrese told TheDC Wednesday.

Calabrese — a privacy lobbyist — was first careful to note that the

ACLU doesn’t strictly oppose universal background checks for gun

purchases. “If you’re going to require a background check, we think it

should be effective,” Calabrese explained.

“However, we also believe those checks have to be conducted in a way

that protects privacy and civil liberties. So, in that regard, we think

the current legislation, the current proposal on universal background

checks raises two significant concerns,” he went on.

 

Not a rousing endorsement of the 2nd, but if the ACLU can help shoot down some of this garbage I'll take the help.

 

[Virgil Ray Hality, SASS# 37355]

May not be a rousiong endoresment, but it raises the spector of a feared institution getting involved and derailing the anti-civil rights movement!