New Federal law being proposed. Let me explain:
The problem: There’s no requirement for a background check on ammunition sales. So you can be someone who just stole a gun, illegally got your gun from some kind of trafficking, or were in possession of it and you are intending a crime. You can walk into any store and buy the bullets and nobody is going to check. If we extend background checks to ammunition, we immediately save lives
Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg
Fred Guttenberg is pushing for the proposed law, named Jaime’s law after the man’s daughter. Jaime was killed in the Parkland shooting in South Florida. Here is the thing: this law wouldn’t have done a single thing to prevent the shooting that killed his daughter. The killer in that particular case obtained his gun legally because authorities couldn’t be bothered to do their jobs.
If the law passes, it won’t fix a single one of the hypotheticals in the above quote. If a person steals a gun, buys one on the black market, or is intending to commit a crime, there is no way that such scenarios would result in failing a background check.
No, the real purpose of this law is to inconvenience shooters. It requires that ammunition can only be bought from licensed dealers. It also appears to require a permit to purchase ammunition at anywhere other than a shooting range where the ammunition will be fired on the premises. The law also states that there is no limit to the fee that can be charged for the background check.
Keep buying ammo, it may be needed very soon.
5 Comments
Don Curton · November 22, 2021 at 6:45 am
They’ve been threatening this since the Clinton era. I remember very clearly the Dems proposing a $1 per bullet tax back in the 90’s. Now tying it to a background check is just semantics. It should never pass, but these days you never know.
Elrod · November 22, 2021 at 12:13 pm
“Keep buying ammo, it may be needed very soon”
LOTS of ammo.
Jonathan · November 22, 2021 at 4:55 pm
Hopefully, you’ve been buying ammo for a while, along with the other paraphernalia guns need to keep going.
This has been proposed regularly for years. I’m surprised they haven’tt proposed returning to the pre 86 register system.
Divemedic · November 22, 2021 at 5:00 pm
I have been buying ammo. How much do I need? At least 1,000 rounds more than I have.
Jonathan · November 22, 2021 at 10:09 pm
I only got into .223 last year, so I’m relatively low on it. I’m doing well on most other calibers I run.
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