After LaPierre complained that expanded background checks would only burden law-abiding citizens and said they make no sense because criminals ignore the system, Durbin commented that the NRA official missed the point.
They also contend it would prove a burden to law-abiding gun owners while doing nothing to stop criminals from getting hold of firearms.
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It also argues that an expanded system would prove a burden to law-abiding gun owners while doing nothing to stop criminals from getting hold of firearms.
"It's not clear that the measures being considered here will make a meaningful difference, while it is clear that they will create a meaningful burden for law-abiding sites, " said Drugstore.com Chief Executive Peter Neupert.
The way to resolve this is to reconfigure the burden of the law.
In the real world of human family relations there can be no justification for government to impose this burden by force of law.
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Moreover, the new law splits the burden of cash payments between regional and federal governments.
By opting out, state governments hope to avoid a possible increased financial burden as the health care law gets fully implemented beginning in 2014.
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And while there is no question that procedural requirements like background checks are permissible, that does not mean that the government may place an undue burden on the right of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves.
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The law also lessened the economic burden of drug development by offering a 50-percent tax credit for the costs incurred during the clinical trial phase.
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Even so, the court left open the possibility of further challenges if opponents uncovered real, substantial evidence that the law would severely or unfairly burden certain voters.
And so the burden is on those who would overturn a law like this.
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Even if repeal seems impossible, some see a chance to reform the blasphemy law demanding a higher burden of evidence for accusations, for instance.
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True, the law ministry recently proposed changing the burden of evidence in rape cases, but its suggestion was not a liberal triumph: still four eye-witnesses, but only three of them need be Muslim males.
The Democratic Party challenged the Indiana law, contending that it imposed an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote for poor and elderly voters.
The "spaghetti bowl" of UK tax law is to be simplified to cut the burden on business and attract foreign investment, George Osborne has said.
Here's why: Under the proposed law, a taxpayer could only shift the burden of proof to the IRS if he had complied with "reasonable"IRS requests for access to his records.
You also don't need to be a libertarian to demand that any new intervention meet this burden of proof: It will accomplish something that tort law and enforcement of basic laws against force, fraud and collusion do not accomplish.
French officials said those immigrants could be returned under European law if they were jobless and represented a social burden.
Capano says the deposit law in his state places too much of the burden of recycling on grocers, who have to provide space and machines to take the bottles back.
And though a review of these revelations does seem pretty damning to the naked eye, does it pass the same burden of proof that would be required in a court of law?
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The legislation would make it clear that when a victim shows discrimination was a "motivating factor" behind a decision, the burden is on the employer to show it complied with the law.
At the center of the cases is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the 1993 law that bars the government from imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion for anything other than a compelling government interest pursued in the least restrictive way.
This shifting of the burden of proof on the central issue of intent to violate the law is no hyper-technical thing.
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The three said that without concrete proof of the burden imposed and proof of the numbers of people affected, the law could not be invalidated because it represents a legitimate attempt to prevent fraud in the future and inspire voter confidence.
Exhibit A is the Coalition for Fairness in Tax Compliance, which aims to block proposals it says would unfairly burden small businesses and self-employed folks who comply with the tax law in an effort to catch those who don't.
And the bureaucrats at the IRS want to impose this burden even though the regulation is completely contrary to existing U.S. law.
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Mr Romney's website says that this law is "a quantum increase in the scale of the regulatory burden on the American economy".
Second, we include in the Budget 16 carefully targeted tax law changes that improve compliance while maintaining that important balance between the burden being imposed on taxpayers and our shared interest in collecting taxes owed.
Completeness and accuracy now create a heavy burden for employers and essentially empower the DOL to investigate preemptively in violation of the law.
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