The “Pro-Gun” Provisions of Manchin-Toomey are Actually a Bonanza of Gun Control

According to David Kopel this Toomey/Manchin POS is of more benefit to the prohibitionists than it will ever be to gun owners. For example:

The limit on creating a registry applies only to the Attorney General (and thus to entities under his direct control, such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives). By a straightforward application of inclusio unius exclusio alterius it is permissible for entities other than the Attorney General to create gun registries, using whatever information they can acquire from their own operations. For example, the Secretary of HHS may consolidate and centralize whatever firearms records are maintained by any medical or health insurance entity. The Secretary of the Army may consolidate and centralize records about personal guns owned by military personnel and their families.

Then there is the section that allows physicians to enter people into the NICS database without providing prior notification or due process of any kind.

This thing needs to die on the floor. the people who wrote it are not our friends. We need to kick the politicians among them to the curb.