Alright, I see where you're going now. I can agree with that, too.
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Background checks clearly impose order by preventing criminals and felons from legally acquiring firearms.
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Are we preventing felons (once criminals are convicted; I don't believe in infringing rights until they've been judged as guilty of a crime) from being a part of the militia, too? The militia clause doesn't differentiate between those with or those without records... unless, of course, it's one more facet of US citizenship they're denied by being felons, but that's conjecture on my part and not stated anywhere in law.
I can admit the NICS has a legitimate role, then, but god it needs to be reworked into something both accurate and fair (those who bounce back as false positives ought not to require legal action to correct that mistake, which smacks of guilty-until-proven-innocent).
-B