Posted on 01/17/2013 5:10:12 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is encouraging licensed gun dealers to help private gun sellers run federal background checks.
In an open letter to the country's federally licensed gun dealers, the ATF says they can "enhance public safety and assist law enforcement" by facilitating private sales through their businesses and running federal background checks on prospective gun buyers.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Already if you want to buy a weapon in a "private" sale via internet you have a local FFL send a copy of their license to the seller or their local FFL. The gun gets sent to your local FFL. You go in and pay a fee. Your FFL calls in the background check. You walk out with the weapon. It is actually, not optional for internet sales.
They are just trying to encourage willing participation amongst private buyers and sellers (non-dealers) so they are used to it and won't push back when they make it mandatory.
They might go for it too!
Think of the business it will bring in what with the transfer fees and impulse sales after the sale.....
Kinda like the atf shutting down home business FFL dealers so it funnels folk to brick and mortar operations....
Universal background checks and a national database will be tantamount to universal registration...
Pretty sick
How will they ever enforce it?
If the law goes into effect on say...6/15/13, and you sell a gun privately after that date that you had purchased prior to 6/15/13 all you have to do is say you sold it prior to the law going into effect.
Currently you could do that with over 300 million firearms and there is no way to prove you sold it after 6/15/13.
No, not if I knew someone was unhinged or violent. If I was fetching a great price for something I might be tempted to overlook "sketchy" lol. I was just thinking this would be nice if it were optional.
Anyway, apparently this service is already available anyway which I didn't know.
Don’t forget to turn in those hicap mags too people!
“Anyway, apparently this service is already available anyway which I didn’t know.”
I didn’t know that you could do that already. I have a problem selling a firearm to someone I don’t know.
When the idiot you sold it to wants a plea bargain......
And how does he prove the date of purchase?
Only if .gov foots the charge. And records continue to be destroyed within 24 hours. And no paper record is kept.
Five letters - “S-t-i-n-g”.
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