The Biden administration announces rule that will require more background checks on gun buyers
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The rule, which was finalized this week, makes clear that anyone who sells firearms predominantly to earn a profit must be federally licensed and conduct background checks, regardless of whether they are selling on the internet, at a gun show or at a brick-and-mortar store.

Thousands more firearms dealers across the United States will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will soon go into effect.

The rule aims to close a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of guns to be sold every year by unlicensed dealers who don’t perform background checks to ensure the potential buyer is not legally prohibited from having a firearm.

“This is going to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and felons,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “And my administration is going to continue to do everything we possibly can to save lives. Congress needs to finish the job and pass universal background checks legislation now.”

  • anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The background check process is a fucking joke and gives a false sense of security. Nearly all of the mass shootings across the US has been with a legally purchased, background checked firearm. It doesn’t take into account other factors that can lead to it being used with ill purpose.

    Here in Texas I passed one federal background check several years ago, and any other gun purchases since then has been by merely showing my LTC and I walk away with a new firearm.