[Red in Blue PA]

"I swear officer, my guns were lost last year"

F Obama.

And F his Unconstitutional EO's. Challenge every single one of them in court.

[Red in Blue PA]

A top gun industry executive defended the current definition, saying it requires dealers to make most of their living from gun sales before requiring a license. Based on conversations with ATF officials this month, the executive described the upcoming change as “overreach”: “If you are not doing it for the principal purpose of earning a livelihood AND earn a profit you are not engaged in the business as defined by Congress,” he said in an email.

Another victory for advocates is likely to be a new requirement for all licensed dealers and manufacturers to report to federal authorities any guns that are stolen in transit to a buyer as missing from their inventory. Currently, advocates say, thieves often target packages addressed to gun retailers in the hopes of stealing unregistered guns that are harder to trace. And while buyer and seller might sort out refunds or replacements on their own, they’re not required to report the missing guns to the National Crime Information Center.

ATF first proposed the new regulation in August 2014, which industry opposed, saying a voluntary reporting program was working just fine. But the year-and-a-half lag between the rule’s proposal and finalization is another factor urging Obama to act forcefully as he enters his last year.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/obama-guns-gun-control-217234#ixzz3vualoIxd

[driftdiver]

Since EOs can only change what a govt agency does; how can an EO effect individual sellers?

I know its a useless question since he ignores the law. As does the DOJ, FBI, ATF and other alphabet agencies.

[Marcella]

“...impose tighter rules for reporting guns that get lost or stolen on their way to a buyer.”

It is unfortunate there are so many bodies of water between a seller and buyer of guns. According to this new rule to report loses into water plus so many guns stolen between the time a seller sends them in the mail and the buyer gets them, there is going to a huge stack of paperwork to report these millions of guns stolen or lost in water.

[G Larry]

The good news is that Cruz can just ERASE all of Bambi’s fascist mandates.

[Iron Munro]

[SkyDancer]

Just a bunch of posturing by the Enemy-In-Chief.

[Yo-Yo]

Hey, time was in the '90s that anybody could get their FFL and be legally able to ship guns, buy guns across state lines, and have mail order guns shipped directly to their homes.

Then the ATF tightened the requirements for an FFL to the point that only those who were actually engaged in a demonstrable business activity could hold an FFL, and the number of licenses dropped from a peak of about 250,000 in 1993 to about 50,000 today.

If the ATF wants to go back to issuing FFLs to anyone who wants one and passes the background check, I'm all for it.

[ThunderSleeps]

Standing by to enthusiastically ignore illegal and un-Constitutional EOs....

[nomad]

You sold them at a gun show?

[TYVets]

According to gun industry insiders and others familiar with the proposals, the changes include requiring an expanded number of small-scale gun sellers to be licensed—

Bill Clinton got rid of 70% of FFL's in the mid '90's. Too many small dealers.

Now the control freak wants them back. Background checks for "small dealers"?

[Torcert]

Just remember this classic I found in the achieves:

50 Ways Lose your hardware [Humor Vanity]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2196228/posts

[jim_trent]

I would think that a gun in a certain state that was sold to someone else in that state, would be beyond the reach of this rule.