Feds want reporting for high-powered rifle sales
(AP) – 55 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agency that monitors gun sales wants weapons dealers near the Mexican border to start reporting multiple sales of high-powered rifles, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has asked the White House budget office to approve an emergency request requiring border-area gun dealers to report the sales of two or more rifles to the same customer within a five-day period.
The emergency request, published Friday in the Federal Register, is likely to face stiff opposition from gun rights advocates, including the National Rifle Association. ATF wants the Office of Budget Management to approve the request by Jan. 5.
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If approved by the White House, the new reporting requirement would affect nearly 8,500 border-area gun dealers in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas and be in place for 180 days.
So gun runners will start buying their weapons in Oklahoma and Utah and Colorado. It’ll just raise the delivery cost a bit due to the extra gas and man-hours - and cost isn’t of much concern to drug cartels. Of course, when the buyers move north, that means this requirement will then be extended to the entire United States, which is probably what is intended all along.
Step two is to declare that the "border-area" extends to the great lakes.
OIC. Don’t want anyone down there defending theirselves.
This must be so they can monitor which ranchers are buying rifles.... because after all, I don’t know of many criminals that buy guns through legal channels.
“The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has asked the White House budget office to approve an emergency request requiring border-area gun dealers to report the sales of two or more rifles to the same customer within a five-day period.”
And just WHAT are they going to do with the information? Open an investigation on EVERYONE who purchases 2 rifles within 5 days? For NOT breaking the law?
Why just near the border? Golly gee whiz, I thought we were told the border was as secure as it ever was. Give them this and they will come back in 6 months making it cover the entire *57* states.
obamanation has done everything he can to disarm us. I hope the NRA stands up on this.... I sure am!
There is no emergency. Every gun sale already goes through a background check.
Border area gun dealers could conceiveably include North Dakota, Montana, Maine, Alaska, etc. They have international borders, too. Or did it specify the Southern Border?