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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 21:55:34 +0000

The Federal government isn’t allowed to computerize firearms records, but states can probably do it. As an island group, Hawaii can do thing and enforce laws that would be extremely difficult to pull off on the mainland. I wish them luck, and anticipate a NRA lawsuit.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:25:35 +0000

Oh, and my favorite US Senator did something good for her own Birthday! :D Elizabeth Warren Finds PERFECT Way To Spend Her Birthday, It Involves Democracy & Freedom I love her tweets! LOL One of the few American's I follow on Twitter! ;) :D

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:20:39 +0000

Well, it seams that one State has had enough of the NRA and the useless Federal Government. :) Hawaii has passed 3 laws regulating the sale of firearms and ammunition: 1. Senate Bill 2954 SD2 HD1 (Act 108) - Authorizes county police departments to enroll firearms applicants and individuals who are registering their firearms into a criminal record monitoring service used to alert police when an owner of a firearm is arrested for a criminal offense anywhere in the country. Authorizes the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to access firearm registration data. 2. House Bill 625 HD1 SD1 - Specifies that harassment by stalking and sexual assault are among the offenses that disqualify a person from owning, possessing, or controlling any firearm or ammunition. 3. House Bill 2632 HD2 SD2 CD1 - Requires firearms owners who have been disqualified from owning a firearm and ammunition due to a diagnosis of significant behavioral, emotional, or mental disorder, or due to emergency or involuntary hospitalization to a psychiatric facility, to immediately surrender their firearms and ammunition to the Chief of Police. Allows the Chief of Police to seize firearms and ammunition if a disqualified individual fails to surrender the firearms and ammunition after receiving written notice of the disqualification.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 02:23:13 +0000

We won’t go into what I thought was a good idea at various times in my life. Been there, did that, and still feel the pain…

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 02:12:29 +0000

Oh, I got (and still) have annoyances from my time of *Service to the Motherland*! I’m still under the NDA & have a few restrictions on International Travel. *shrug*

There are always pro’s and con’s, right? And *they* lie (usually by omission). Still… I know I did some good. But the cost was high. Someone asked me if I would do it again, knowing what I know. I couldn’t honestly answer. Foresight & hindsight are two very different things.

As with almost all things… It seemed a good idea at the time! 😉 😀

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:26:51 +0000

You got benefits from the intrusions. All I got was restrictions on travel and other annoying things when I got out. There seems to have been a major shift in attention from real security to a facade as things are turned over to contractors.

Oh, they kept an eye on us between the formal investigations. The ‘undercover agents’ were really obvious most of the places we frequented.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 12:05:29 +0000

Well Bryan, we all know the entire system in the USA is FUBAR! And getting that way here sadly. *shrug*

OT: Five years Bryan? Lucky you! Was every 2 years for the extended check, & 6 months for a standard check for me. Plus the full debrief & psych eval’s after most missions (it depended where they were & what the mission was). Still, once I was finally out and in civilian land, it had it’s uses. When I worked as a consultant/contractor and needed to go to a high-security site (like DSTO), I usually got my clearance in a week. Anyone else was usually 6 weeks. I was also able to take in a laptop for demo’s etc AND could get it back within a week (after it was checked). Everyone else that took any electronic device in, had it destroyed on exit. 🙂 Gave me an advantage over competitors for the high-value mil/int biz. 😀 We *USED* to take security seriously here… I think those day’s are long gone. *shrug*

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:56:19 +0000

You described the Extended Background Investigation that I went though every five years in the Air Force. Now it’s done by an outside contractor. The Concealed Weapons Permit in Florida is issued by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services [I kid you not] which doesn’t really have access to all criminal records. The requirements are $160 and a safety course.

If they had taken a report when his first wife complained of abuse and filed charges the system might have worked, but that didn’t happen.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:59:01 +0000

Yet he was a legal licensed concealed weapon carrier in Florida, and had passed a background check by G4S (Wackenhut) to be a security guard. Of course, that “background check” was just a cursory computer database query. Not a background check in any *real* sense, where someone goes out and talks to your family and friends and ex-spouses and checks your financials etc. to make sure you’re a good security risk and a psychiatrist gives you a battery of tests, the kind of background check you had done on you when getting cleared to do secret squirrel stuff. That likely would have caught something that said “this guy is a bad security risk”. But that would cost money and interfere with one’s god-given right to possess a metal penis. SIGH.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 01:36:43 +0000

His father is apparently a very strict Muslim and is featured on a cable access show in California that is anti-Pakistan and pro Afghan Taliban.

Reports are now surfacing from various people within the investigation that the shooter has claimed to support groups that are blowing each other up. It looks like he was hiding his sexual orientation from his family by getting married and hiding his drinking by going out to bars. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they discover that he had been diagnosed with a major problem at some time. The children of religious whackoes do tend to have problems.

His name set off the Drumpfs of the world before anyone did any serious investigation.