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The aniti's in Washington are at it again. Just received this from Texas State Rifle Association.

 

 

Emergency BATF Notice

 

 

The Texas State Rifle Association, the NRA state affiliate, joins the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the NRA, and state affiliates across the country to oppose the latest requirements and restrictions placed on law-abiding gun dealers and owners by the BATF.

From the National Shooting Sports Foundation

 

ATF to Require Multiple Sales Reports for Long Guns

 

December 17, 2010 By Larry Keane

 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and

Explosives (ATF) is moving to require federally licensed

firearms retailers to report multiple sales of modern

sporting rifles beginning January 5, 2011. Specifically, the

ATF requirement calls for firearms retailers to report

multiple sales, or other dispositions, of two or more .22

caliber or larger semi-automatic rifles that are capable of

accepting a detachable magazine and are purchased by

the same individual within five consecutive business days.

 

Today's Washington Post suggests that the reporting

mandate would be limited to retailers along the Southwest

border; however, the Federal Register Notice does not limit

the geographic scope of the reporting requirement.

 

This ATF "emergency" mandate was originally pushed by

the anti-gun Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) coalition,

headed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, more

than a year and a half ago. And the Post reports that the

Department of Justice has "languished" over this plan for

several months. Given this timetable, it's hard to see exactly

where the "emergency" is.

 

The National Shooting Sports Foundation opposes this

reporting requirement because it further burdens America's

law-abiding firearms retailers with yet another onerous

regulation that will do nothing to curb crime. Multiple sales

reporting of long guns will actually make it more difficult for

licensed retailers to help law enforcement as traffickers

modify their illegal schemes to circumvent the reporting

requirement, thereby driving traffickers further underground.

This is not unlike how criminals maneuvered around

one-gun-a-month laws in states like Virginia - which is still

considered an "exporting source state" by anti-gun

organizations like the MAIG despite its restrictions on the

number of firearms law-abiding residents may purchase.

 

Multiple sales reporting for long guns is an ill-considered

mandate and one that ATF does not have the legal authority to

unilaterally impose. In fact, ATF has not specified under what

legal authority it presumes to act. The decision as to whether

ATF can move forward with this agenda-driven mandate will

be left to Cass Sunstein who heads the White House Office

of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). This is the same

Cass Sunstein who in a 2007 speech at Harvard University

said, "We ought to ban hunting, if there isn't a purpose other

than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now."

 

NSSF will be submitting comments in opposition to this

registration scheme and is encouraging all firearms retailers,

sportsmen and enthusiasts to do the same.

 

Please voice your concern by doing the following:

 

1. Call the Office of Management and Budget, Office of

Information and Regulation Affairs, Department of Justice,

Desk Officer at (202) 395-6466.

 

2. E-mail Barbara A. Terrell, ATF, Firearms Industry Programs

Branch at Barbara.Terrell@atf.gov

 

3. Call your Senators and Representative: United States Capitol

Switchboard: 202-224-3121

 

Points to make:

 

1. Multiple sales reporting of long guns will actually make it

more difficult for licensed retailers to help law enforcement as

traffickers modify their illegal schemes to circumvent the

reporting requirement. Traffickers will go further underground,

hiring more people to buy their firearms. This will make it much

harder for retailers to identify and report suspicious behavior

to law enforcement.

 

2. Long guns are rarely used in crime (Bureau of Justice

Statistics).

 

3. Imposing multiple sales-reporting requirements for long

guns would further add to the already extensive paperwork and

record-keeping requirements burdening America's retailers - where

a single mistake could cost them their license and even land them

in jail.

 

4. Last year, ATF inspected 2,000 retailers in border states

and only two licenses were revoked (0.1%). These revocations were

for reasons unknown and could have had nothing to do with illicit

trafficking of guns; furthermore, no dealers were charged with

any criminal wrongdoing.

 

5. According to ATF, the average age of a firearm recovered in

the United States is 11 years old. In Mexico it's more than 14

years old. This demonstrates that criminals are not using new

guns bought from retailers in the states.

 

6. Congress, when it enacted multiple sales reporting for

handguns, could have required multiple sales of long guns - it

specifically chose not to.

 

Share this email and act TODAY!

 

 

Alice Tripp

Texas State Rifle Association

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[SlicLee SASS #16638 Life]

Cass Sunstein does not legally work for the govt of the United States.

 

Batf works for the Congress of the US and has no power to make any laws.

[Lefty Dude, SASS # 51223]

The Nudge-Master is at it again.