Post by Salty Sea Bastage on Apr 30, 2011 1:01:26 GMT -5
Earlier this week I addressed the multiple sales reporting rules from the ATF. They wanted to extend these reporting burdens to long guns in states along the Mexican border. This does nothing but allow back-door registration and make things harder on the FFL licensed business owner.
Well yesterday the US house passed an amendment that blocks the ability of the ATF to require the reporting of the long guns. The bill passed 277 to 149. With the support of 41 democrats! The bills's sponsor Dan Boren, a Democrat from Oklahoma, said "First, it puts an additional paperwork burden on gun dealers. Second, it creates a federal catalog of assault weapons buyers, thereby violating their privacy." Then, he said "the ATF doesn't have the legal authority to require such reporting."
This is a win for gun owners!! Not only because this unwarranted reporting is blocked, but because we actually have a large number of seemingly pro gun democrats in the House.
Source: The HILL
Source: NRA ILA
Well yesterday the US house passed an amendment that blocks the ability of the ATF to require the reporting of the long guns. The bill passed 277 to 149. With the support of 41 democrats! The bills's sponsor Dan Boren, a Democrat from Oklahoma, said "First, it puts an additional paperwork burden on gun dealers. Second, it creates a federal catalog of assault weapons buyers, thereby violating their privacy." Then, he said "the ATF doesn't have the legal authority to require such reporting."
This is a win for gun owners!! Not only because this unwarranted reporting is blocked, but because we actually have a large number of seemingly pro gun democrats in the House.
Source: The HILL
Source: NRA ILA