Earlier this week I addressed the multiple sales reporting rules from the ATF. They wanted to extend these reporting burdens to long guns in states along the Mexican border. This does nothing but allow back-door registration and make things harder on the FFL licensed business owner.
Well yesterday the US house passed an amendment that blocks the ability of the ATF to require the reporting of the long guns. The bill passed 277 to 149. With the support of 41 democrats! The bills's sponsor Dan Boren, a Democrat from Oklahoma, said "First, it puts an additional paperwork burden on gun dealers. Second, it creates a federal catalog of assault weapons buyers, thereby violating their privacy." Then, he said "the ATF doesn't have the legal authority to require such reporting."
This is a win for gun owners!! Not only because this unwarranted reporting is blocked, but because we actually have a large number of seemingly pro gun democrats in the House.
Source: The HILL
Source: NRA ILA
Worth noting, especially for many of the folks on the East Coast, is that plenty of Democrats out west (but not in Cali) are actually very pro2A. This appears to be mostly due to the large portions of their constituency that are hunters.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see this ATF nonsense was knocked down, though.
You state in this post "well it is already illegal to carry a weapon while drinking". This is not true. The state of Indiana has no such law that states that you cannot drink while carrying.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to check the facts.
Sorry I was was just thinking of Texas where there is a no tolerance law.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of where you are, if you had been drinking and have to use deadly force your state of mind will come into question.
I will check my facts a bit more thoroughly next time. Thanks for the info.