1 Step Closer To Universal Background Checks?

Joe Biden, despite his protests to the contrary during the 2020 election campaign, doesn’t know a single gun control law whose hair he doesn’t want to sniff. Or maybe I should say that he hasn’t found a gun control law that he wouldn’t love to fondle… uh… that he doesn’t love (sure, let’s go with that one). His hypocrisy and his efforts to make you and I defenseless are disgusting.

He’s at it again, though. trying to take us another step closer to a gun control program which has never been shown to save lives.

But what else do we expect from Biden? Or his handlers? Michael Clements writes,

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has submitted the final version of a controversial rule to change the definition of what it means to be “Engaged in the Business” of dealing in firearms.

The U.S. Attorney General has said the change, required by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act enacted on June 25, 2022, will save lives by requiring anyone who “devotes time, attention, and labor to dealing in firearms as a regular course of trade or business or predominately earns a profit through the repetitive purchase and sale of firearms” to obtain a Federal Firearms License.

“Under this regulation, it will not matter if guns are sold on the internet at a gun show or at a brick-and-mortar store: If you sell guns predominately to earn a profit, you must be licensed, and you must conduct background checks,” Attorney General Merrick Garland wrote in a statement on the ATF website.

Here’s the thing, though: If you ever sell a gun that you have, you’re not looking to lose money on that sale. No, even if selling firearms isn’t your primary business, you’re still looking to turn a profit on that single transaction.

Which means that, based on this rule, if you ever sell a firearm for any reason, unless you intend to lose money on the transaction, then, you have to jump through the ATF’s hoops. And if you own more than one gun and have been into firearms for any amount of time, it’s likely that you have one or more that you’d like to sell.

So, yes, this is just one step closer to universal background checks to keep the government’s thumb on you and me for exercising our 2nd Amendment rights.