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Feds allow for drive-up gun sales to ease dealers', buyers' coronavirus worries
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, in new guidance to federally licensed firearm retailers, said Friday that dealers can provide drive-up or walk-up service to reduce health risks posed by the coronavirus.
[...] Licensees "may carry out the requested activities through a drive-up or walk-up window or doorway where the customer is on the licensee's property, on the exterior of the brick-and-mortar structure at the address listed on the license," the ATF said in a Friday bulletin.
Transactions may not be carried from "a nearby space" that is not part of the dealers' property unless they are participating in qualified gun shows.
Larry Keane, general counsel for the firearms industry trade group National Shooting Sports Foundation, said Friday that the organization raised the issue with the ATF more than two weeks ago as dealers sought to navigate various government orders limiting business activity.
[...] Except in the states of Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York and Washington, gun dealers have been open for business during the pandemic.
Keane said the new ATF guidance in no way alters the requirements for background checks.
Show of hands: who could ever have expected THIS?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snotnose on Tuesday April 14 2020, @02:07AM (7 children)
Unless you flat out hate guns then this makes sense. They're still doing all the checks needed to buy a gun, all they're doing is removing the requirement you share breathing room with a guy that share's breathing space with dozens of people a day.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by qzm on Tuesday April 14 2020, @11:12AM
Pretty much this.
Yet another case of 'we have to find SOME way to spin this as an anti trump anti right anti gun thing, NO MATTER WHAT'
And hey, I don't even particularly like guns.
This is just saying they don't need the people to come in to the shop to pick them up, thereby reducing possible exposure.
Plenty of pharmacies are doing this with prescriptions around here - and hey, those can kill people also!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @12:20PM
Indeed, I have less of an issue with this than the drive through daiquiri places.
This is just as safe as a normal gun shop (more so during this pandemic), the daiquiri places putting drinks in drivers hands just makes me so nervous.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 14 2020, @05:19PM (3 children)
This is an OUTRAGE.
If they are doing all the checks needed to buy a gun, then why can't they deliver the guns to the buyer's front door instead of making them go to a drive through?
(I never heard of these before . . .) Louisiana should bring back drive up cocktail bars.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 15 2020, @12:50PM (2 children)
They got rid of them? Well shit, that was my second favorite thing about the state.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 15 2020, @02:04PM (1 child)
There is still the issue that if every state were ordered to offer drive through cocktail bars and drive through gun purchases, the problem remains that people must actually get out of their chair, go outside, and drive to somewhere.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:43PM
Well, that is a hardship but it's nothing too severe for those of us who grew up being our parents' answer to remote controls for the TV not being invented yet.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 14 2020, @09:52PM
They expect me to have to go to a drive through and actually get out of my chair?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.