Universal Background Checks

[jasper2408]

Here we go again. GOA is going to sue when the demented, criminal communist issues his Executive Order.

What Do We Know About the Upcoming Rule?

Universal Background Checks, especially when implemented by executive order, are a blatant infringement—with no basis in the text or history of the Second Amendment.

The New York Times, which leaked the majority of what is publicly available, stated that the proposal is “expected to be released soon” with a final rule to be published in the “second half of 2024.”
Anti-gunners are rebranding private firearm sales as “the gun seller loophole” and “the growing digital loophole” to justify executive action—rather than the passage of a new law. The fake “gun show loophole” is “really a passé idea” to Senator Blumenthal now.

Failing to register will carry a penalty of up to 5 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

Expect anyone who makes “a profit”—perhaps as little as $1—to be prohibited from selling their privately owned firearms without a federal firearms license or a background check.

Expect a maximum number of firearms sales that a private citizen may engage in per year without needing a federal firearms license. Anti-gunners want to limit collectors and sellers to five guns or fewer. An Obama-era regulation would have set the threshold at even one or two gun sales.

At the same time, the Biden Administration will also increase its use of bank records to target gun owners and gun sellers.

NOTE: Why are UBCs Registration Checks?

All background checks require the buyer to complete a Form 4473. This Firearm Transaction Record includes the buyers name, address, Social Security Number, and other details about them and their firearm.

The Biden Administration has required these records be kept permanently by gun stores, and they are scanned into a digital and searchable ATF database when a gun store goes out of business. These forms are used to “trace” firearms to their owners and constitute a form of gun registration.

Forms 4473—transformed by the Biden Administration into permanent gun registration forms—are the only enforcement mechanism for Universal Background Checks, as they would prove who obtained a firearm legally (and has a Form 4473 to prove it) and who did not complete the required registration form (and has therefore violated the law). Universal Background Checks require gun registration, and gun registration leads to gun confiscation.

GOA webpage: https://www.gunowners.org/