Good
As gun control laws have been added piecemeal over the years, it has forced gun owners to deal with conflicting and redundant requirements. Furthermore, the interstate requirements for buying a gun have needlessly forced gun dealers to ship firearms via commercial carriers, thus subjecting them to being lost, damaged or stolen.
To counteract this, Rep. Renzi is set to introduce the Firearm Transfer Improvement Act in the next few days. Renzi says that because gun dealers must comply with the laws of two different states in addition to federal law, these regulations are both “redundant and costly.” It is bad enough that the national government has created an unconstitutional federal background check system, but we still have this 1968 interstate ban left over.
“My legislation simply states that federal law and the law of the state of the seller must be complied with for all firearms sales,” Renzi said. “It also applies the same rules to rifles and shotguns, which are currently handled differently than handguns.”
May 25th, 2006 at 1:36 am
Not good, I can buy a rifle or shotgun in a neighboring state. I cannot buy a handgun there. This is just another partial ban misnamed.
May 25th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
I concur with straightarrow. Now if they changed it to treat handguns as rifles and shotguns are treated we’d have a something.