
News Link • Gun Rights
DOJ, ATF Kill 'Zero Tolerance Policy' That Threatened America's Gun Dealers
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenEvidencing the warm relationship between the Trump administration and America's firearm community, the news was first reported by Gun Owners of America (GOA), which scooped every major media outlet. Other moves are reportedly in the works -- including changes to regulation of pistol braces, and background checks on private firearms transactions.
"First introduced under the Biden administration, the policy aggressively targeted gun dealers for minor paperwork errors—creating fear and uncertainty across the firearms community," GOA said in a press release that praised the move as a "major Second Amendment win."
As set out by the Biden administration, the Zero Tolerance Policy set out to yank firearm-dealers' licenses if they were found to have made any of a number of infractions, such as "willfully" selling guns to convicted felons, failing to perform a background check, or failed to help police trace weapons used in crimes. Some critics said it was a pretext for a reducing the number of firearms dealers in the country.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation lauded the policy's eradication. "This reckless policy throttled small businesses and drove many to shut down by threatening crippling administrative costs to fight against penalties for minor errors and infractions that were previously reconciled in good faith between ATF officials and law-abiding firearm retailers," said NSSF SVP Lawrence G. Keene. Gun control advocates condemned the move. "The reversal of this policy is a gift to the gun industry, sending a clear signal to rogue gun dealers that they can break the law without consequences," said "Brady," the awkwardly-short name now used by what was once called the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
GOA also announced that two other noteworthy deregulatory moves are coming soon. The first would kill the Biden-era ban on pistol braces, which turned millions of peaceable Americans into felons for owning something that was legal when they acquired it. Pistol braces were designed in 2012 to help disabled veterans shoot rifles more accurately.
The catalog of leftists saying positively ignorant and idiotic things about firearms is vast, but President Biden on pistol braces must be in the top five, as he claimed that "putting a pistol on a brace...turns [it] into a gun," and allows it to shoot a "higher-caliber bullet":
Putting a pistol on a brace turns it into a gun and makes your bullet a higher caliber...???? ???? ????
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) June 17, 2023
The lies prove that the Regime's objective is the complete disarmament of peaceable people.
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