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Justice Department finalizes rules to close ‘gun show loophole’ | The change was touted by the White House as the biggest increase in gun regulation in decades (wapo.st)

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[–] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Amazing! I can't believe after all this time someone finally passed this common sense legislation.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The legislation that directed these rules to be written was actually passed by Congress a few years ago.

It takes quite some time for new federal regulations to be written and enacted, with lengthy public comment periods.

[–] MysticDaedra@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago

That's a bit disingenuous. The actual legislation doesn't mention this issue at all, and one of the co-authors has even come out and said that the ATF's reliance on that law is perversion of the intent of the legislation.

Anything involving a constitutional right should have significantly more say by elected officials and significantly less say by agency bureaucrats.

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