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 Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @09:08AM (2 children)
America, land of the cowards afraid of their own government. In a real democracy, like France, it's the government that is afraid of the people and people are not afraid to protest and topple a government, no arsenals or guns required.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 14 2020, @11:38AM
You're assuming cooperation of said government with your nonviolent revolutions. But then you're talking about a nation whose government goes looking for someone to surrender to if nobody asks it for a week, so that's probably fine for France.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @06:45PM
How is that working out right now with Macron ordering indefinite imprisonment for every Frenchman?
Apparently migrants have free hand though, the government is considering letting them open their stores so they stop rioting. If the autochthonous French had the balls, they could possibly have their lives back too.