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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 14 2020, @08:17PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday April 14 2020, @08:17PM (#982757) Journal

    Do you really believe your guns would give you even the slightest chance against the government's professional military equipment?

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 15 2020, @01:22PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 15 2020, @01:22PM (#983037) Homepage Journal

    I don't believe they would, I know without a doubt they would. You just don't want to believe they could so that your argument seems less bloody stupid.

    Look, for starters you're going to have one hell of a time convincing guys who volunteered to defend their fellow citizens' liberties to turn their guns on those fellow citizens for any reason, much less one the service members sympathize or outright agree with.

    You're also stuck with the government being unable to use the vast majority of its good weapons even if it can find people to man them. It's all fine and good to blow up someone else's supply lines and infrastructure but our supply lines and infrastructure are also theirs.

    Similarly, the government has no significant income outside taxes. If they want to pay people to attack us, they rely upon us to foot the bill.

    Further, how did Viet Nam work out for the most powerful military in the world at the time? How about Afgnanistan or Iraq? We mopped up those insurgencies right quick, didn't we? Now consider we have a whopping fuckton more weapons and bodies than any of them ever did. American hunters alone (Just the ones who buy hunting licenses every year.) number over ten million and there are more than ten times as many who own firearms but don't hunt.

    Don't say dumb things just because you want them to be true, man. I prefer having to work for the win; it strengthens my position every time I do.

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