Amazing! I can't believe after all this time someone finally passed this common sense legislation.
this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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This won't actually do anything from my understanding though. I thought this wasn't going to change the private sales between people walking around gun shows from selling to each other, just the vendors in booths who are already required to do back ground checks.
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This is insane. They are trying to backdoor outlaw private sales without going through Congress. This should be challenged and thrown out.
You can still make the occasional private sale of your used firearm. What you can't do is make a business out of it.
As usual with these rule changes, the devil is in the details. From what I have seen it is hundreds to pages and creates a framework where there is a lot of discretion and subjectivity on the part of the ATF to charge people under the rule. There is no bright-line rule with regard to the number or frequency of transfers. It gives feds too broad of discretion to selectively apply criminal law. If you don't believe me, look how ATF and DOJ have handled literally every other firearms related issue under this administration.
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What is this, just nics for private party transfers?
No other constitutional right is as heavily-regulated as the Second Amendment. The idea that one needs to ask permission from the government before exercising a constitutionally-protected right is anathema the entire concept of inherent rights.