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With the 2024 presidential election on the not-so-distant horizon, President Joe Biden (D) is set to make 'gun control' a central component of his campaign. This will reportedly start with the rollout of yet another executive action from Biden, with this one set to supposedly eliminate noncommercial, private firearms sales.
Put another way, this is yet another attempt from the Biden administration to move ever closer to his dream of implementing so-called "universal" background checks.
According to administration leaks to preferred media outlets, this newest executive action would build upon one released earlier this year that purported to be "moving the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation." Adding to that, the Biden administration also had help from the politically mislabeled Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), which was passed last year and also recently abused to suit Biden's anti-gun agenda.
"Biden has not been coy about his ambitions to push existing law as far as possible (and likely past the breaking point) toward 'universal' firearm background checks," reported the NRA Institute for Legislative Action. "Biden did have legislative help from the BSCA in this effort, which amended a critical legal term concerning who is considered 'engaged in the business' of firearm sales, and therefore required to become a federal firearm licensee (FFL) and run background checks on all retail transfers."
Previously, an individual only needed an FFL when engaged in "a course of trade or business" buying and reselling firearms with the "principal objective" of "livelihood and profit." .....