President Joe Biden will take executive action Tuesday that seeks to increase the number of background checks conducted during gun sales as the White House reverts to unilateral ways to tackle gun control amid bleak prospects in Congress.
RELATED: Here’s how the federal gun background check system works in the US
The order stops short of requiring universal background checks, which the president has asked Congress to pass through legislation. His action instead directs Attorney General Merrick Garland to "clarify" the statutory definition of firearms dealing, according to senior Biden administration officials familiar with the order.
Federal law requires individuals engaged in the business of dealing firearms be federally licensed and therefore check the backgrounds of buyers. Under the order, Garland will use his discretion to ensure gun sellers "willfully violating the law" and those unaware of background requirements become compliant.
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You mean the STAGED ATTACKS HEY SNIFFY??
In the mean time, the criminal will still not be checked because they already have their hoard of guns hidden away
Doing nothing fixes nothing. Background checks also include mental health.
And nothing has happened with gun reform/control
What about 6 foot length of chain safety or straight razor safety like Cornpop had?
The police are unable to enforce the gun laws that we do have — more laws mean hiring more police Joe, Does this legislation ask for the hiring and training of more police?
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What I want to know is HOW do you expect to enforce universal background checks? You, nor does the government know or have any record of most of the guns I own. Most, over 5 were inherited, and were obtained prior to 1968 when background checks were done. So the serial numbers are not on any documents anywhere. Not even when the were inherited. So if I sell one to someone and they use it in a crime. There is no way the police could ever trace it back to me. What about homemade guns? Even if I put a serial number on it. There is still no way to trace it back to me. No one even knows the gun was made? Even if you outlaw so called “ghost guns”, stil doesn’t mean criminals won’t make them. Besides that two federal courts have already ruled that banning ghost guns is unconstitutional. (5th and 3rd circuit)
So again.. even if you manage to pass this law. It will be unenforceable. Criminals won’t care. And it won’t limit, or stop them from getting a gun. A criminal who wants a gun will ALWAYS be able to get a gun.
Law enforcement can’t even stop drugs, and u expect them to stop guns? Get real!