Posted 4/12/2024, 2:59:40 PM
ATF Expands Background Checks for Firearm Sales, Closing “Gun Show Loophole”
- ATF finalized a rule expanding background checks for gun sales at gun shows, online, by mail, etc. Seeks to close "gun show loophole"
- Uses authority from 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to require more sellers to conduct checks
- Biden Rule will "keep guns out of hands of domestic abusers and felons"
- Giffords Closes loophole allowing "anyone intent on doing harm to buy a gun"
- Cornyn Rule distorts intent of original law, calls it a "power grab"