The Justice Department and ATF said they would rescind the “zero-tolerance” policy aimed at firearm dealers who don’t comply with federal gun sale laws.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    48·
    7 days ago

    Good idea with tens of thousands of very angry people being put out of work.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      75·
      7 days ago

      It’s performative…

      Bidens legislation was “let’s hold dealers accountable for breaking this law” but dealers were already being held accountable anyways. If someone wants to buy a gun but can’t pass a background, they buy one “used” and don’t have to do it. Waaaaay easier than hoping a FFL will risk their license for you.

      It was something that sounded good, but had at best a negligible effect.

      trump did more for gun control than Biden, but the SC struck it down:

      https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/politics/supreme-court-bump-stocks/index.html

      trump fucking hates guns except for the ones carried by people under his command. I’m only surprised he hasn’t went after the 3d lower loophole since that’s what Luigi used

      • thallamabond@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 days ago

        Dealers, by and large, were NOT being held accountable

        More than half of all stores with violations transferred guns without running a background check correctly, waiting for the check to finish or properly recording the results. More than 200 dealers were cited for selling guns to people who indicated on background check paperwork that they were prohibited from owning them. Dozens made false statements in official records, a violation that includes facilitating illegal straw purchases.

        A Florida gun dealer got in trouble for giving a Taurus handgun to a convicted felon in the parking lot and an Arkansas pawn shop was cited for selling a firearm to a customer even though he’d failed the background check because of an active restraining order. In Ohio, one store transferred guns without conducting background checks 112 times; another was missing some 600 firearms. A Pennsylvania gun retailer racked up 45 violations and received eight warnings from the ATF. But the store was allowed to remain in business, and went on to sell a shotgun to a man who used it to kill four family members, including his 7-year-old half-brother.

        and then…

        A single violation is enough to shutter a gun shop if ATF officials can prove that the store willfully broke federal regulations. In the vast majority of the cases analyzed by The Trace and USA TODAY, the ATF gave violators the lightest penalty available: a boilerplate warning letter reminding them that their compliance is critical to “reduce violent crime and protect the public.” The agency revoked a gun dealer’s license in less than 3 percent of cases.

        https://www.thetrace.org/2021/05/atf-inspection-report-gun-store-ffl-violation/

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          6 days ago

          More than 200 dealers were cited for selling guns to people who indicated on background check paperwork that they were prohibited from owning them. Dozens made false statements in official records, a violation that includes facilitating illegal straw purchases.

          If that sounds like a big deal to you…

          1. You have no idea how many sales go thru an FFL daily in America.

          2. You have no idea how many privates sales happen daily

          Zero judgement for #2 tho, literally no one knows that, because it’s untracked and without background checks except when handled state level by a few states

          • thallamabond@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 days ago

            I should have clarified, my response was pointed.

            but dealers were already being held accountable anyways.

            I disagree with the above statement.