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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, @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.