Guns, rifles, AR-15s

[AndyS]

17. Well, being as you finally responded to one of my queries I guess it's only fair.

In my personal opinion there is no individual right to own a firearm, rather it is a collective right. For the first few hundred years the SCOTUS agreed with that but somehow Scalia, a strict texturalist, found such a right in the 2nd amendment. How a texturalist can do that is beyond me but then the SCOTUS has become something unrecognizable. So, operating within the current circumstances there are literally dozens of ways to let people own guns and reduce gun violence.

Joe Biden is doing one of them right now: redefining who is a gun dealer and who has to meet those requirements which include inventory management, record keeping and performing background checks. Before the new ATF rules (paraphrasing for convenience) a dealer was someone making the preponderance of income from firearms sales. The new rules (again paraphrasing) include anyone who invests effort, time and generates profit from gun sales. This can affect as many as 140,000 sideline gun sellers. It will reduce the number of guns sold without a background check (possibly by as much as 30%) and reduce the number of dealers to only those willing to invest in following the rules. It will not affect someone disposing of a collection, a family member selling to family or friend or the casual one time disposal of a gun.

How do you feel about that?