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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @07:46AM (6 children)
Well, you can't wipe your ass with it, since you and your type have caused panic buying of things not really in short supply. On the other hand, 57 grams of Magnum Express Powder, can not but help with your sanitation routine. Leave out the primer, just a barbeque clicker start should be sufficient. Minute of arc accuracy, on the ceiling. Fucking poop-centric ammosexuals! Holey Fucking shit up the Shithole? Powdered up the Gator in the Battle of New Orleans? (After the War was over, thanks, Andy (Donald) Jackson Trump! Give me a gun, or give me toilet paper!! Can I wipe my ass with Runaway? Where are the aristarcus submissions?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @08:34AM (5 children)
57 grains is up there into magnum load high power cartridges -- and by high power I'm not talking about that wimpy 5.56 all the Democrats think is the ray of death. 57 grams though -- well I doubt that fits in anything less than artillery size. Even a .50 BMG only takes 230ish grains (about 15 grams). For the aforementioned Democrats, size comparison: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4c/00/da/4c00dac53c49ba4769c765492ef9aa4a.jpg [pinimg.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @08:53AM
We were aiming for the ceiling, and the Bullet was something well over 100kg. So not out of range. Did you miss the fine journal by Turgid on indoor rocketry? Along those lines, but definitely for adults only.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @08:53AM (3 children)
57 grams is about 5cc of lead. You could put that in a shotgun solid. It would make a mess of whatever it hit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @09:50PM (2 children)
Powder is not lead. Lead is inert. Powder is the magic freedom dust that makes lead freedom seeds fly.
As for the lead, most slugs are in the 7/8oz to 1 1/8oz range (25 - 32 grams) -- there could be negative consequences to one's shotgun and personal safety shooting too heavy projectiles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @03:31AM
I noticed that afterwards. Propellant not projectile. 57 grams would be something like a M230.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 15 2020, @01:25PM
75/15/10 FTW.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.