Posted on 06/01/2010 5:15:08 AM PDT by marktwain
"ATF Reverses Interpretation of GCA; Redefines 'Transfers' of Firearms," reads the May 27 post on the National Shooting Sports Foundation's NSSF Blog.
Reversing an interpretation of the Gun Control Act that has been on the books for more than four decades, ATF today posted a ruling declaring any shipment of a firearm by a manufacturer (FFL) to any agent or business (e.g., an engineering-design firm, patent lawyer, testing lab, gun writer, etc.) for a bona fide business purpose to be a "transfer" under the Gun Control Act of 1968.
As NSSF observes:
In many instances, these requirements will force shipments to a third party, thereby lengthening the process and the time that the firearm is in transit.
The thing is, ATF has been operating under a completely different interpretation without incident:
There is simply nothing in the Brady Act or is there any other legal reason that compels ATF to now reject 40 years of precedent...
ATF is unable to identify a single instance during the past 40 years where a single firearm shipped in reliance upon ATF's rulings was used in a crime.
Here's the May 20 ruling, issued under "authority" of Deputy Director Kenneth E. Melson:
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Are you sure there is no apparent reason for this? Are you sure this is not to go after Montana and other states who say the Interstate Commerce Laws do not apply to their in-state firearms companies selling firearms only within state boundaries.
I’m not sophisticated enough to conclude that, I’m just asking the question. Could this be the way the ATF plans to regulate Montana gun makers selling guns that never cross state lines to Montana residents? The use of the word “any” makes me wonder if this is the case.
Is this a possibility or does it seem unrelated to the handful of states that have passed these laws?
Those Chicago mobsters are not inhabiting the WH. Like the cockroaches they are, they’re INFESTING it!
When we finally rid ourselves of them, we’ll need to seal up every opening and pump the place full of insecticide gas.
It’s all about control!
Be Ever Vigilant!
The BATF is a group of thugs, and anti-civil rights goons. It should be shut down. Any other government agency with their history of discrimination and FUBAR would have been closed years ago. Liberals over look the actions of these scum bags because the agency is trying to tear town the Second Amendment.
The reason is to make the gun owner database (the one they claim not to have) more complete.
Both of you have a point; national registration of guns helps both legitimate law enforcement and the future ability to confiscate. Unfortunately, the legit reason will probably trump the Montana statute under the ‘right’ judges.
“Stroke of the pen, Law of the land. Kinda cool!”
Paul Begala
By unelected bureaucrats none the less.
Actually, over on Sipsey Street the buzz is that this was a setup on the part of a faction within ATF that is looking to see the current acting director thrown out on his ass.
Your delivery method was the problem, Laz. Rights of individuals should not be taken because of a mistake on the part of the delivery service and Glock. That firearm should have been sent to delivery to a named individual (You).
I have a gunshop and stand to benefit financially from this interpretation of this law (via transfers). However, this law sucks, and will just drive up the costs to the consumer without accomplishing a damned thing. What a waste of productive people’s time.
In Calif, each transfer also requires another background check. Even to get your pawned gun back. If you don’t pass, you don’t get it back.
And I read that there may be new reasons to fail a check, such as minor ‘mental’ conditions. And returning soldiers and vets that ask for counseling can be classified as ‘mental’, etc.
Not to mention X number of days wait. And in Calif, there is 30 days wait between purchases (don’t know how this relates to transfers of own gun such as return from repair).
Like I said.
They won’t “come and take them”. Of course they won’t, they’ll get shot.
They will just regulate them into oblivion via a third party: subject business to slow, growing, crushing weight of regulation, so eventually you’re left with old guns you can’t fix and can’t feed because there’s nobody left to do the work. (And no, you won’t do or make it yourself. You don’t make bullets or primers or brass on your own, nor make receivers or other hard parts - at least nowhere near a rate or quality able to keep up with deep-pockets government.)
And you won’t know what hit you.
Handguns were the center of NFA before they were axed to get the bill thru.
Did you ever get your Glock from the thief?
“We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!”
~Senator Charles Schumer, 1993
No, the ‘raiders’ need to be shot dead...
Mark Levin commented today that it is a slur against Chicago to label them as such. These are Soviet Socialists we are dealing with and there are many examples to confirm this. Their Stalin-like handling of everything from Health Care (crammed down your throat) to Cap and Trade via the EPA (soon to be crammed down your throat), taking Arizona to task for a wildly popular act, and the "job offers" for those willing to do their bidding at election time, make it obvious. The People don't matter, the State does, and they'll do whatever it takes to "rule" over us.
To predict where things are going, one has only to study the communist's love for armed citizens. There wasn't any. And, if November doesn't come soon enough and hard enough, we'll soon feel the 'love'.
They are much more like than unlike...
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