Posted on 01/19/2013 10:38:52 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Barack Obamas Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has sent an open letter to all Federal Firearms License (FFL) holders/licensed gun dealers in the United States, recommending they enhance public safety and assist law enforcement by encouraging and facilitating transfers of firearms between private individuals through their business. In short, FFL holders are being told to perform background checks and keep records of private gun sales between American citizens, EVEN THOUGH federal law may NOT require that they do so! (1)
According to current federal law, gun sales between private individuals must be...
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They’ll do stings next, and arrest your cousin on ten federal charges, and send him up for 20 years. They’ll kick out killers to put him in.
The same ATF that rarely follows-up on ex-felons
that attempt to buy a firearm through a dealer?
“Theyll do stings next, and arrest your cousin on ten federal charges, and send him up for 20 years. Theyll kick out killers to put him in.”
You are right that they always look for a way to start trouble but its still legal to do private sales without a background check so there’s nothing to hide and no reason to go through an FFL dealer.
If ATF keeps this carpola up I expect our US reps and senators to start getting involved. Remember recently in Alaska when ATF tried to get the FFL dealers to let them take the 4473’s offsite? That didn’t last very long.
I remember that.
Also there was a push for a while to “help” FFLs by allowing them to archive 4473s electronically on Gov servers (we promise we won’t peek) we just want to help.
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