Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: New ATF regulation on Safer Communities Act of 2022 in effect; the law made nearly all sellers gun dealers Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 18:21:47 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 00:21:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5b20d53b5f4107b74ecbfe8535e4987f"; logging-data="456883"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18GbdgbQXlh4MWipQAope66qhzAC5EdENI=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5xfNgRtDhBmCS/vqgPTKPE71G7Y= Bytes: 3024 On Tue, 14 May 2024 21:14:27 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: >After the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Congress >did something about gun control. The bipartisan Safer Communities Act of >2022 was the result. > >Despite intense negotiations, it turns out that not a lot of thought was >put into legislative language and, once again, it was left up to ATF to >write regulations that would determine when criminal law would apply. > >The law intended to close the "gun show loophole". Congress being >Congress, instead of making the instant background check available for >all people selling firearms, you know, one of the problems they were >trying to address, they instead turned almost everyone selling a gun >that they had previously used for personal protection into a dealer >required to register under federal law and THEN make them run the >background check. The regulation to enforce this provision, once again >this is a criminal law provision, is now in effect. > >You are a dealer based strictly on your intent to make a profit regardless >of whether you are in business and regardless of whether you've made a >profit. > >The lawyer who did the video is a criminal defense attorney who makes >other videos on how to retain your rights during police stops. He points >out that this new onus is on the seller and not the buyer, who does not >face new restrictions. Therefore he's concluded that this law won't keep >buyers intending to commit crimes from buying guns. But it will make any number of sellers into criminals. Now if I own a gun and decide I want to get rid of it but my neighbor says "Let me give you some $$ for that weapon" then even if I were legally allowed to do it if I didn't register as a seller then I'm a criminal. Unless they've got a specific provision that allows for this sort of sale without registering with the ATF. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZD05CTmDL0