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[-] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 24 points 7 months ago

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

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

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 7 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.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

This is election year performative action with no direct effect on reducing gun crime.

[-] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago

Actually violent crime has been dropping consistently for decades!

[-] MysticDaedra@fedia.io -2 points 7 months ago

There's no correlation between the violent crime rate and firearms regulations in the US.

[-] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

This won't actually do anything from my understanding though. I thought this wasn't going to change the private sales between people walking around gun shows from selling to each other, just the vendors in booths who are already required to do back ground checks.

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