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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 14 2020, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the federal-department-of-booze-butts-bangs-and-bombs dept.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/10/feds-allow-drive-up-gun-sales-ease-dealers-buyers-virus-worries/5134084002/:

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?


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by crafoo on Tuesday April 14 2020, @02:25AM (4 children)

    by crafoo (6639) on Tuesday April 14 2020, @02:25AM (#982363)

    ARs are alright, and far more practical as far as the original purpose of the 2nd. But man, magazine-fed semi-auto shotguns are preeeeetty fun.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 14 2020, @03:41AM (3 children)

    I miss my M60. Nothing is quite so enjoyable as being able to saw down a tree with bullets to hit someone behind cover.

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    • (Score: 2) by Roo_Boy on Tuesday April 14 2020, @12:19PM

      by Roo_Boy (1762) on Tuesday April 14 2020, @12:19PM (#982539)

      I preferred the 7.62 re-chambered Bren, especially as number 3 in the gun group, the 30 round Bren mags fitted into the SLR nicely. Fed like crap, but looked cool and as an FE if we had to start shooting the world was already pear shaped. Downside to the Bren, way too accurate for a section LMG.

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    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @02:05PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @02:05PM (#982580)

      As if you've actually ever done that in real life. *facepalm*

      You pathetic basement-dwellers / keyboard-warriors crack me up.

      I'd give real money to be there when you're confronted for the first time with a situation where you have to take a life, actually take a human life, when you realize that's it's not a fucking video game, that with just a small twitch of your index finger, that person in front of you that is looking you in the eyes will be no longer, that you will have taken a life, commited an irreversible act that nobody, nothing, no power in the universe can undo.

      You gun freaks are right about one thing: Guns are not the problem. YOU are.