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The NRA Has Boston Blood on its Hands, Too: Opinion

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The NRA Has Boston Blood on its Hands, Too: Opinion

By Christopher Ziegler

Star-Ledger Guest Columnist

April 26, 2013 at 6:15 AM

updated April 26, 2013 at 6:16 AM

NJ.com

http://blog.nj.com/njv_guest_blog/
2013/04/the_nra_has_boston_blood_on_it.html

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/c6dgzb3

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On April 15, two bombs exploded on the streets of Boston. Two days later,
the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bipartisan gun control measure that would
have mandated background checks on all gun purchases.

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There are few coincidences in life, and fewer in politics. These two
newsworthy events, which on first glance seem incidental, are in fact not
unconnected: They are indirectly linked through the professional fear
factory known as the NRA.

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My father worked for 28 years as a special agent with the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. For a long time, he kept a
microscope in a clunky metal suitcase. The microscope was made to read
something called taggants. Taggants are color-coded particles that can be
included in the manufacture of gun powders of the kind used in the bombs
made by the Boston terrorists.

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These explosive taggants are designed to hasten the arrest and prosecution
of bombers, as well as deter would-be terrorists, by enabling crime
investigators to quickly identify where the gun powder used in a bombing
was last sold or stolen, and with the help of distribution records when
it was originally manufactured and distributed.

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Currently, taggants are mandatory only in the manufacture of plastic
explosives. The ATF has twice advocated for legislation requiring the use
of taggants by all gun powder manufacturers. The NRA, however, opposes
such legislation. And whenever the measure has come up for a vote, once in
the 1970s and again in 1993 after the first World Trade Center attack,
Congress has successfully failed to pass anything.

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This brings us to the background checks vote of April 17. The NRA killed
mandatory taggant legislation by arguing that it would amount to a form of
backdoor gun registration. And even though more than 90 percent of
Americans favor universal background checks, the NRA has again
successfully frightened a minority of Americans and senators into
believing universal background checks would be a slippery slope to a
fictional scheme for gun registration and confiscation.

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The real reason the NRA spreads misinformation and stakes such hard-line
positions is that it represents the wish-list of weapons manufacturers.

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It has abetted the proliferation of weapons within our borders the past 40
years.

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But by far the worst abuse is the violence the NRA has inflicted on the
U.S. Constitution.

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The Second Amendment is clearly about providing for domestic security and
not at all about guaranteeing immediate access to guns for personal use.
This modern-day, erroneous interpretation of the amendment is, according
to former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, one of the biggest
pieces of fraud ever perpetrated on the American people by a
special-interest group.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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