As the Brady Bill takes effect today, police chiefs and sheriffs across the country are scrambling to enforce its gun-control requirements without a dime from Congress.

At least two have said flat-out that they won't even try.

Other law enforcement officials complain that they will have to take officers off the streets to check the backgrounds of mostly law-abiding people.

"I can ill-afford to spend the time and money that I have now (for) fighting crime, and I'll be damned if I'm going to do background checks on honest Americans," declared Sheriff Richard Mack of Graham County, Ariz.
