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Post by avordvet on May 7, 2014 17:27:55 GMT -5
ATF's proposed reporting requirement expansion illustrates 'slippery slope'Kurt Hofmann, St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner, May 7, 2014 National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea reported last evening that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been stealthily preparing to expand its requirement for gun dealers to report multiple long gun nationwide. The existing requirement to report sales within five days to the same buyer of two or more semi-automatic, detachable magazine-fed rifles of greater than .22 caliber has to date been limited to the four southwest border states of California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. The existing requirement, readers my remember, is not a matter of law, passed by Congress. The reporting requirement was imposed by raw executive fiat. A similar requirement for multiple handgun purchases, in contrast, is mandated by federal law. A blatantly unconstitutional law, to be sure, but at least that requirement has the thin veneer of legitimacy of having received the blessing of Congress. www.examiner.com/article/atf-s-proposed-reporting-requirement-exapansion-illustrates-slippery-slope
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