Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 21:32:15 +0000 From: BTR1701 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 References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 14:41:09 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 27 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-UAuRF6GXExiGJyG3djqQTbD8eNpFIS7HaMCQDEOPaIZFUyOS6ZsRRTx2JaPFX22ieEn4a/Z9d1FRPiu!x/X2lQJLtdKqYU0bOL17ECvRrTfdCcxqbzGLHWlwEU2QNdZK5YGoCFbGtzHMnfMucBUucnvDyqdH!KyE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2418 In article , "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?