To control guns, enforce the laws

In the past few weeks there have been numerous letters from citizens in your publication concerning gun control and the Second Amendment. Most of them touch on the same theme: " We must have universal background checks ... We must prevent the easy access to guns."

Universal background check is the term used by the gun grabbers to keep track of every weapon in every household for future action by the government.

Currently the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is used before every legal purchase of every weapon from a legitimate business. Apparently that is not good enough. The feds must know what weapon you bought and the serial number? Why?

"We must prevent easy access to guns". This is the one that no Chicago politician will handle. To answer their complaints, I refer to the to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Title 18 and demand that the Chicago politicians require judges to follow the U.S. code in sentencing.

Here are a couple examples of the CFR 18:

• Interstate transport of illegally obtained firearm. five years in prison for each count.

• Illegal for a convicted felon to buy, receive, or transport any firearm or ammunition. 10 years for each count.

• Sell or give firearm to a convicted felon. 10 years for each count.

One example of the Chicago and Cook County not working to prosecute crime is: In November 2014 the Chicago Sun-Times did a story of how the Cook County judges from January 2006 to August 2013 tossed out of court over 13,000 gun violations. I wonder how many of these 13,000 violations could have been prosecuted correctly under the U.S. Code instead of letting them go free and wonder how many of those violators are the ones that shoot up the city of Chicago every weekend.

Dan Bulicek

Lindenhurst