Regulations Drawing Bipartisan Opposition

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is proposing a new gun regulation in four states.  It has bipartisan opposition.  The new regulation would affect California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.

The new ATF regulation would require about 8,500 gun dealers to report gun sales of two or more high-powered rifles sold within five consecutive business days. It would cover semiautomatic rifles greater than .22 caliber with detachable magazines.

The proposed regulation faces opposition from Montana's two Democratic senators, Max Baucus and Jon Tester, as well as 36 House members in both parties who say the regulation would subject gun dealers to burdensome requirements.

Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, has asked the ATF to withdraw its request to the White House for emergency authority to enact the regulation.

"While I understand the importance of cracking down on violence and gun trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border, this wide-reaching regulation would punish law-abiding American gun owners and impede their Second Amendment rights," Begich wrote in a letter last week to ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson. "Instead, we must secure our border and target Mexican drug cartels, as well as participating offenders in the United States."

Barack Obama, his administration and the anti-gun groups need to understand penalizing legal gun owners doesn’t stop the criminal element.  The criminals don’t go to legal gun dealers to buy guns.  People on the border need protection from the criminal illegal aliens that Obama won’t stop from crossing the border.

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