NYT Discloses New Details About Biden’s Universal Background Check Mandate

Submitted by Gun Owners of America,

Earlier this 12 months, we reported on President Biden’s announcement that he’d be directing the Department of Justice to “move the United States as close as possible to universal background checks without additional legislation.” 

The transfer to manipulate by govt fiat is loud and clear. The ATF & DOJ will publish this new rule within the second half of 2024, with a proposal launched “soon,” in response to a brand new report by the New York Times —which appears to have entry to inner ATF coverage.  

2️⃣Anti-gunners are rebranding non-public firearm gross sales as “the gun seller loophole” to justify govt motion—somewhat than the passage of a brand new regulation.🤯https://t.co/e0vXbfZu3V

— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) August 1, 2023

Other particulars concerning the rule within the NYT report embody: 

Anyone who makes “a profit” from promoting firearms, maybe as little as $1, is to be prohibited from promoting their privately owned firearms and not using a Federal Firearms License (FFL) or a background examine. 

According to the report, anti-gun organizations are pushing ATF to restrict the variety of firearms gross sales a non-public citizen might have interaction in with out an FFL. Currently, anti-gunners need to restrict collectors and sellers to five weapons or fewer. An Obama-era regulation would have set the brink at 1–2-gun gross sales per individual.  

Failing to register as an FFL holder will carry a penalty of as much as 5 years in Federal jail and a $250,000 nice. 

1️⃣@NYTimes (which leaked the information) acknowledged that the proposal is “expected to be released soon” with a last rule to be revealed within the “second half of 2024.”

— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) August 1, 2023

Universal Background Checks, particularly when carried out by govt order, are a blatant infringement — with no foundation within the textual content or historical past of the Second Amendment.  

For Universal Background Checks to exist, there have to be a registry to help a hint. Forms 4473—reworked by the Biden Administration into everlasting gun registration kinds — are the one enforcement mechanism for Universal Background Checks, as they might show who obtained a firearm legally (and has a Form 4473 to show it) and who didn’t full the required registration type (and has subsequently violated the regulation).  

Registries of firearms at all times precede confiscation. 

GOA has already introduced plans to file a lawsuit to dam this rule, however that doesn’t absolve Congress of its duty to make use of each means essential to defend the Second Amendment. 

While Gun Owners of America fights for the Second Amendment within the courts, Congress should repeal the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act  —the regulation that has allowed for ATF to now subvert Congress with this rulemaking. The act has been utterly weaponized, gun house owners have gained nothing, and America is not any safer. 

Congress should additionally take part within the rulemaking course of and voice its opposition to backdoor common background registration checks throughout the public discover and remark interval alongside GOA members. After commenting throughout the proposed rule section, Congress should additionally take up a joint decision of disapproval pursuant to the Congressional Review Act and strike down this unconstitutional infringement. 

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