Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" 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: Wed, 15 May 2024 00:31:14 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 02:31:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a65e22184fe120548e9face0a9566e00"; logging-data="509940"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/wWYWAq0m0ULPmaO6fMlBMQZyifXOxcds=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:fDPlWV+k2uAib8dL5Hhi2zAd0jM= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2436 BTR1701 wrote: >"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. >If you're not in business and you haven't actually made a profit on the >sale, how does the BATF purport to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that >you had intent to make a profit? Everything about this badly-drafted law sounds stupid. "Intent" was given a moviePig definition.