Is the GOP Going to Suppress the Vote?

Let me tell you a little story about a government-issued ID, okay?

Back when I had my gun shop, I got a call from the ATF. They wanted me to dig up a background check form that a customer had filled out when he purchased a gun several years previously.

In particular, the ATF agent wanted to know what gender the customer had indicated when he filled out the form.

So, I dug through a pile of the forms for that particular year, found the customer’s form, called the ATF agent back and told him the customer had indicated that he was male.

The reason I got this call was because the individual in question had evidently moved to Florida and in some kind of background check claimed to be a female and said that he-she had gone through a background check when he purchased a gun in my gun store.

What the individual had failed to tell the authorities in Florida was that between the time he purchased the gun and then moved to Florida, ‘he’ had become a ‘she’ by dint of having a sex-change operation performed.

How much time, effort and energy was spent by two law enforcement agencies and a government employer tracking all this down?

I recalled this incident the other day when I read a story on the NBC website which said that not only have…