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: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 14 2020, @05:30PM (2 children)
Uh, no. Mission not accomplished until you can ALSO get drive through alcoholic beverages and guns together.
Please remember to use guns responsibly after drinking.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 15 2020, @02:22PM (1 child)
You forgot a pack of smokes and some Tannerite.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2020, @12:17AM
+1 insightful
It all falls under the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms anyhow. May as well make it an all-in-one shop...