{"id":974,"date":"2003-03-02T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2003-03-03T06:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/02\/gun-control-2003\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:44:13","slug":"gun-control-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/02\/gun-control-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun control 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15174,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.sfgate.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/article.cgi?file=\\\/c\\\/a\\\/2003\\\/02\\\/28\\\/MN40941.DTL&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20111104052512\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.sfgate.com\\\/cgi-bin\\\/article.cgi?file=\\\/c\\\/a\\\/2003\\\/02\\\/28\\\/MN40941.DTL&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:58:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 06:04:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 06:04:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15175,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/23971&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060630160926\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/23971&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/23971&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 16:00:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 06:04:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 06:04:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is just frightening.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  U.S. Department of Justice has threatened to criminally prosecute California&#8217;s top firearms official over the state&#8217;s continued use of a federal databank to hunt down illegal gun users, The Chronicle has learned.<\/p>\n<p>  Federal authorities believe the list of convicted felons, drug dealers, suspected terrorists, spouse beaters, illegal immigrants and others should only be used to help gun dealers determine if someone is allowed to buy a gun, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2003\/02\/28\/MN40941.DTL\" title=\"US threatens to sue state for using gun database - Justice Dept. wants only dealers, not cops, to have access\">not police investigating other gun-control violations<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/23971\" title=\"Gun nuts exepmt from Total Information Awareness\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities believe the list of convicted felons, drug dealers, suspected terrorists, spouse beaters, illegal immigrants and others should only be used to help gun dealers determine if someone is allowed to buy a gun, not police investigating other gun-control violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}