The Biden administration is, frankly, the most anti-2A administration in U.S. history. They’ve gone out of their way to harass legal gun owners and to make (legal) gun ownership as difficult as possible. And, now, with a new rule, they may have made you a criminal.
Here’s the situation: Biden’s ATF recently put into place a new rule about gun sales which puts any kind of transfer of ownership of a firearm under their scrutiny. Which, if you’re familiar with the ATF or the Biden administration, is never a good thing.
You can find out details of how this new rule could make you a criminal in the video below from Gun Owners of America.
Now, if you didn’t take the six minutes to watch that video (or if you just want a quick review of the points in the video), below are the five ways that the new ATF rule could make legal gun owners criminals.
First, even one gun sale (yes, even a private gun sale) makes you a dealer, which means that you would need to get a Federal Firearms License (FFL) to sell even one gun. If you think that you have to deal with a lot of scrutiny from the ATF now, imagine how much worse that it would be if you were to get an FFL. It’s exponentially worse, and we’re even hearing stories of Biden’s ATF harassing and shutting down gun stores over simple clerical mistakes. There is no mercy from the ATF under Biden for FFL holders.
Second, even worse than the first issue is that, under the new ATF rule, you could be considered a dealer even if you don’t sell a firearm. How? A single offer to sell a firearm can cause you to be considered as being engaged in the business of gun sales. Just the offer. And with the current administration, I would expect that even joking about selling a gun to someone, if overheard, could set you up for legal trouble with the ATF.
Third, whose standards will be used to define what being engaged in the business of selling firearms is? Answer: the ATF’s standards, not standards laid out in law. So, they can presume that you are guilty from the start (no more innocent until proven guilty), and, potentially, they can change those standards at will to make their accusations something that can’t be defended against, since they set up what is considered acceptable or not.
Fourth, any quick turn around sale can cause you to be considered a dealer. So, if you don’t like the new firearm that you just bought and you turn around and sell it quickly, that can put you on the ATF’s radar as a firearm dealer.
And fifth, if you keep any records of the sale of firearms for any reason (to track profits, losses, or what items that you have on hand for taxes, insurance, or a will), that can cause you to be considered a dealer. So, potentially, if you have a list of your firearms for insurance purposes so that they would be covered if the firearms were destroyed in a house fire, that could be enough to have the ATF require you to have an FFL with all of the hassle that goes along with that.
Really, this is just a back door way for the Biden administration to try to create a firearms registry that is bigger and more complete than the current system with ATF Form 4473. And it’s another way for the Biden administration to try to make legal gun owners criminals so that they can, then, strip legal gun owners of their gun rights (because convicted felons typically can’t legally own firearms).
The American people deserve better than this.