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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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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
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 00:31:14 -0000 (UTC)
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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>"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?

Everything about this badly-drafted law sounds stupid. "Intent" was
given a moviePig definition.