About That Memo

The NRA-ILA has come out with a new ad based upon the leaked Depart of Justice memo that says an assault weapons ban (sic) and universal background checks are worthless unless draconian measures are added to it. The memo from Dr. Greg Ridgeway of the National Institute of Justice can be found here.



I wonder how soon Dr. Ridgeway will be thrown under the bus and returned to the RAND Corporation for stating the obvious. DOJ is already saying that the memo was "an unfinished review of gun violence research and does not represent administration policy."

DOJ may say it doesn't represent administration policy but it sure represents their thinking even if they haven't officially adopted it yet.

Universal Background Checks Or Universal Registration

When Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the rest of the gun prohibitionists say "universal background checks", I think what they really mean deep down is "universal registration". Without registration, universal background checks are a joke. Now in a Freudian slip (or not), Schumer calls for universal registration.