• NataliePortland@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Amazing! I can’t believe after all this time someone finally passed this common sense legislation.

    • mkwt@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      The legislation that directed these rules to be written was actually passed by Congress a few years ago.

      It takes quite some time for new federal regulations to be written and enacted, with lengthy public comment periods.

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        8 months ago

        That’s a bit disingenuous. The actual legislation doesn’t mention this issue at all, and one of the co-authors has even come out and said that the ATF’s reliance on that law is perversion of the intent of the legislation.

        Anything involving a constitutional right should have significantly more say by elected officials and significantly less say by agency bureaucrats.

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      8 months ago

      This won’t actually do anything from my understanding though. I thought this wasn’t going to change the private sales between people walking around gun shows from selling to each other, just the vendors in booths who are already required to do back ground checks.