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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uncle money bags" data-source="post: 2136555" data-attributes="member: 8377">And this is what wayne had to say January of this year while being questioned by senator Leahy.LEAHY: Do you still, as you did in 1999, still support mandatory background checks at gun shows? Yes or no?LAPIERRE: We support the national check system on dealers. We were here when one of your colleagues held the hearings in terms of who would be a dealer and who would be required to have a license. If you did it for live the good and profit, yes. If you did it for a hobby, no. [...]LEAHY: You do not support background checks in all instances at gun shows?LAPIERRE: We do not, because the fact is, the law right now is a failure the way it is working. You have 76,000 people that have been denied under the present law. Only 44 were prosecuted. You are letting them go. They’re walking the street.LEAHY: Back in 1999, you said no loopholes anywhere for anyone. But now you do not support a background checks for all buyers of firearms?LAPIERRE: The system the way it is working now is a failure. This administration is not prosecuting the people they catch. 22 states are not even putting the mental records of those adjudicated incompetent into the system. If they try to buy a gun, even if you catch them, and they try to walk away, you let them. They are criminals, homicidal maniacs, can’t mentally ill - and mentally ill. We all know that, maniacs and the mentally insane do not abide by the law..</blockquote>

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