National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said on Sunday that despite what pro-gun control politicians say or have written in draft legislation, the push for universal background checks is really a veiled step toward the government tracking law-abiding American citizens, most likely for nefarious purposes. “I think what they’ll do is turn this universal check on the law-abiding into a universal registry of law-abiding people. And law-abiding people don’t want that. My God, that’s the last thing they want,” LaPierre said on “Fox News Sunday.” After host Chris Wallace pointed out that post-Newtown firearms proposals from President Obama and other Democrats don’t call for a national registry or a confiscation of weapons already in private hands, LaPierre said he wasn’t buying it. “Obamacare wasn’t a tax until they wanted it to be a tax. I don’t think you can trust these — I mean my gosh, [Sen.] Dianne Feinstein [D-CA] said, ‘If we could go door to door and pick ‘em up, I’d do it,’” he said. The two sides of the universal background check debate were laid out fairly cleanly on “Fox News Sunday,” with Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), advocating for it. Though an assault weapons ban was discussed — and largely dismissed as a legislative possibility — the focus was on universal background checks, the top goal of the gun control community after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn. Read more http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/wayne-lapierre-fox-news-sunday.php?ref=fpa
