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Subject: Re: New ATF regulation on Safer Communities Act of 2022 in effect; the law made nearly all sellers gun dealers
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In article <v20k7j$d416$1@dont-email.me>,
 "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> 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?