[TheForge] Criminal Background Check

[Andrew Vida]

Mike Spencer wrote:

> The nasty principle here isn't that someone's out to get you.  It's
> that once data is collected, it will be used, saved forever and used
> in whatever manner looks good at the time, legal or illegal, ethical
> or not, private or public good, profit or not.  There will always be a
> justification available along the same lines as the recently
> shitcanned DC cabal justifying torture because, well, you know, we really
> *really* needed to do it.

	This is called "leverage".  Just look how it plays in politics. 
Someone runs for office that doesn't meet muster for some interest.  The 
next thing you know, that joint they spent a night in jail for back in 
'73 makes headlines.  Remember Gary Hart and "Monkey Business"?  Of 
course, in that case it was a good thing, but the principle is never 
good, as far as I am concerned.

> OTOH, I have to have a license with a photo (but no fingerprints) to
> own long guns.  At least it was a physical photo, not an automated
> digital database photo.  (Not that it makes a lot of difference in the
> long run.)

	But do you have to register your arms in  the GWN?