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2024-02-01 Home Front: Politix

Biden gun rule being drafted to effectively ban private sales: ATF whistleblowers

[NYPost] A watchdog group is demanding documents from the Biden administration after whistleblowers alleged that a regulation is under development that would effectively ban private gun sales.

The group, Empower Oversight, said Wednesday that two sources have claimed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is preparing to propose a rule requiring background checks for most or all gun sales.

President Biden has campaigned for stricter gun laws and in August proposed a regulation to clarify that people who “repetitively” sell guns must register as federally licensed gun dealers subject to background checks.

The revised rule purportedly being crafted by the ATF would be even broader, Empower Oversight president Tristan Leavitt said in a series of posts on X.

Empower Oversight “has learned through whistleblowers within ATF that at the direction of the White House, ATF has drafted a 1,300-page document to justify a rule effectively banning the private sale of firearms,” Leavitt wrote.

“The whistleblowers say the rule is being drafted by Senior Policy Counsel Eric Epstein, who worked as the Phoenix Field Office’s Division Counsel during Operation Wide Receiver (a precursor of Operation Fast and Furious).”

Leavitt added: “Such a sweeping rule with the effect of banning private sales would clearly violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which declares that ‘the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.'”

Empower Oversight sent a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday to the Justice Department and ATF seeking additional information, including communications with the White House and any Epstein emails involving the alleged plan.

Federally licensed dealers must conduct background checks by entering gun-buyer information into the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

Although the precise wording of the pending proposal wasn’t released, the whistleblower concern stems from the fact that some sellers might be unable to easily access NICS or unaware of the need to do so, putting themselves in legal jeopardy.

The ATF already has interpreted a 2022 bipartisan gun law enacted after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school as expanding who must register as a federally licensed dealer to include people who repetitively sell guns “to predominantly earn a profit.”

Previously, the registration only applied to sellers who had “the principal objective of livelihood and profit.”

It’s unclear what carveouts — such as for family gun transfers — may be included in the alleged pending ATF regulation, which would have to undergo a public notice and comment period.

It also is unclear what would become of the current proposed regulation that would ratify the ATF’s interpretation of the bipartisan reform law.

The public comment period for that rule ended Dec. 8 — with more than 370,000 contributions.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
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I seem to have read somewhere...☺

"The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".

Then something called the US Supreme Court affirmed it also, in a ruling recently.

If the WH controllers can void the US Constitution and our rights with Executive Orders, then wouldn't that make it a Fascist Dictatorship?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-02-01 06:33|| 2024-02-01 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 The rule won’t stand up in court. They are wasting our money trying to craft illegal restrictions into our laws in Wile E Coyote fashion.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-01 07:55|| 2024-02-01 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The process is the punishment. Also fuels inflation, but keeping bureaucrats occupied.

Posted by Bobby 2024-02-01 08:45|| 2024-02-01 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 I agree completely. You only omitted that it's noise to engage their intellectually stunted base.

Posted by Cesare 2024-02-01 09:02|| 2024-02-01 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Y'all keep saying it won't stand up in court. Well, him canceling student loan forgiveness didn't, and he's doing it anyway and gets on TV and brags about it. Shit don't work anymore, get your heads out of the sand.

Posted by Chris 2024-02-01 10:05|| 2024-02-01 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 What I'd to see is a free anonymous stolen weapon online database. Which would at least allow a means to filter stolen firearm sales by honest buyers.

Posted by Gerthudion McCoy4948 2024-02-01 10:50|| 2024-02-01 10:50|| Front Page Top

#7 If the WH controllers can void the US Constitution and our rights with Executive Orders, then wouldn't that make it a Fascist Dictatorship?

Yep. And we have another document that says what to do in that situation. The Declaration of Independence

Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-01 11:31|| 2024-02-01 11:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Calif judge shoots down Calif law that requires background checks just to buy ammo.

Posted by crazyhorse 2024-02-01 11:40|| 2024-02-01 11:40|| Front Page Top

#9 And it will sit, rotting in the 9th circuit as they bypass the en banc panel and go straight for the full court where it will never be on the docket. Just like the other cases Bieneto ruled against. They know if it gets to the SC, all those gun laws will be dead.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-01 12:31|| 2024-02-01 12:31|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ #1 Son's interning for the lawyer that got that background check on ammo overturned. Pretty happy

Posted by Frank G 2024-02-01 12:46|| 2024-02-01 12:46|| Front Page Top

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