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The Biden administration says it is trying to close the “gun show loophole”. You know – you go to a gun show, either you are carrying a gun with a ‘sale’ sign or someone else is, someone else sees the gun and thinks “Yeah, I like that”, they chat, money and ownership changes\u00a0 hands, everyone is happy. BUT YOU DIDN’T LET THE GOVERNMENT OKAY THE PRIVATE SALE!! Therefore it is a loophole, and must be closed – otherwise you might be doing something they can’t control, hence don’t approve.<\/p>\n
People who sell firearms online, at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores would be required to be licensed and run background checks on the buyers before the sales under the rule proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\u00a0 AP<\/a><\/p>\n
\u201cIt is past time to ensure that anyone who sells firearms for profits is required to be licensed and that their sales of firearms are subject to a Brady Background Check,\u201d said Kris Brown, Brady\u2019s president.<\/p>\n
Under the new rule unveiled by the Justice Department, some private sellers may no longer fall within the background check exception, with the department saying the guidance \u201cidentifies examples of conduct that would, in certain circumstances, be presumed to qualify as engaging in the business of dealing in firearms and thus to require a federal firearms license,\u201d which would mean the seller must run background checks ahead of sales. CNN<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Everything I read says that essentially, ATF wants anyone selling guns “for profit” to be regarded as a dealer. Of curse, this ignores that guns increase in value, and the gun you bought at full retail a few years ago probably is worth as much, or even more, than you paid for it. Collector’s items? Even worse. So almost anyone selling a gun, even privately, <\/em>has to run a background check as a dealer. Two little things: you have to be a dealer in order to run the background check. And the other, the check isn’t bad for those who are trained to do and have a 4473 right in front of them. Untrained amateurs? It ain’t easy, and even experienced people make mistakes. It’s similar to those long-ago days when computer programs had to be compiled on punch cards and then run. One keystroke error and your program was dead, dead, dead till you found the error. (Yeah, I know that dates me. I work on ’50s and ’60s cars, too.)<\/p>\n
So we will have a lot more dealers, right? Au contraire, mon ami…not everyone wants to be a dealer. Costs money, there are restrictions, and notably, your entire personal collection gets regarded as commercial sales material and registered.\u00a0 (Wait a minute here…) And then there is the flip side of the coin – even under the OIbama administration, ATF never shut down more than 81 gun dealers in a year for things like paperwork errors, stolen inventory, etc…the Biden folks closed down over 120 last year.\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Press<\/a><\/p>\n
Investigators conducted just over 7,000 inspections in 2022, compared to more than 13,000 in 2019. Still, they revoked more licenses in the past fiscal year than in any year since 2008.\u00a0 The Trace<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They claim to be shutting down ‘rogue’ gun shops, and in fairness, there are a few who will sell to ANYONE. ATF and the FBI come to mind, don’t they? But most of the places being shut down are because of things like paperwork errors… you can see the pattern: require more background checks, limit the number of folks who can do those checks, and it makes it harder to acquire a gun of any description.<\/p>\n
Someone please help me out: What other personal property ‘thing’ can you think of which requires governmental approval before you can sell it?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Bueller? Bueller?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"