The gun lobby argues that enhanced background checks and enforced record-keeping by merchants are overly intrusive measures that infringe on the rights of gun owners.
– A cop watcher in Illinois is unsure if he'll be charged and face up to 15 years in prison under the state's draconian anti-wiretapping law – one of the strictest in the country, though it's only occasionally enforced – for recording a police officer without permission.
Under Holder's tenure, the Civil Rights Division has launched 20 investigations into police departments and is currently enforcing a record 14 agreements, according to Justice Department spokesperson.
The dharma-shastras did not create an enforced practice but recorded existing practices.
And when the judges in 1954 read the record of enforced segregation it carried only one possible meaning: it expressed a judgment of inherent inferiority on the part of the minority race.
Because so many gay and lesbian Americans do join the military for patriotic reasons, for "love of country," it has been especially painful to witness and record their enforced silence, the destruction of their careers, their courts-martial, humiliations and even imprisonment due to the discriminatory policy of an institution to which they would sacrifice their lives.
These rules were strictly enforced using the flight recording equipment they carried.
Democrats in Congress remain skeptical of Obama's claims about improved labor and environmental standards, in part due to the administration's weak record enforcing such standards in existing trade pacts.
"But he believes that before we take the dramatic step of registration, we ought to look at insuring that existing common-sense gun laws are enforced, and this administration's record on enforcing those gun laws is poor," he said.
"It is an improvement on the status quo, if it is enforced... but the track record isn't too good on that".
The books and records provision is enforced regularly, most recently in the conspiracy prosecution of a former managing director of Morgan Stanley for hiding deals with a Chinese official.
