Sean Reyes: “This motion to recommit provides for restrictions on the information contained in the national database. This bill as it…”

“This motion to recommit provides for restrictions on the information contained in the national database. This bill as it stands requires that the database shall contain at a minimum all information contained on the driver's licenses as well as driving history. This would create no limit as to what other information may eventually be incorporated in the database. This motion would simply protect the privacy rights of Americans from a national ID database in this bill. In particular, this amendment guarantees that the database cannot become a centralized storage place for sensitive personal information on nearly every American about whether they own guns, what guns they own and whether they have purchased any guns. This could be the national gun registry that we have all feared for years. This motion to recommit would also bar information on the exercise of first amendment and fourteenth amendment rights from being included in the driver's license database. We should not have a government database of political activities of law-abiding citizens.”