ATF preparing to regulate private gun sales with background check, whistleblower group alleges

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Empower Oversight says power grab would be unconstitutional, usurping powers on Congress and infringing 2nd Amendment.

The whistleblower group that represented the IRS agents in the Hunter Biden case is warning that the Biden administration is preparing an โ€œunconstitutionalโ€œ power grab to regulate private gun sales by requiring a background check.

In a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Empower Oversight said it had learned from two sources that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was directed by the White House to make the change and โ€œhas drafted a 1,300-page document in support of a rule that would effectively ban private sales of firearms from one citizen to another by requiring background checks for every sale.โ€

Empower Oversight said it believes that only Congress can make such a change because a 1986 law it passed explicitly forbade background checks for gun sales between private individuals.

โ€œSuch an expansive rule that treats all private citizens the same as federal firearms licensees would circumvent the separation of powers in the Constitution, which grants โ€˜all legislative Powersโ€™ to Congress while requiring that the President โ€˜take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.โ€™

โ€œTo the extent such a rule prevents the private sale of firearms, it would also clearly violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which declares that โ€˜the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed,โ€™โ€ it added.

File: 2024-01-31 TL to DOJ-ATF (private sale ban)_Redacted.pdf

Empower Oversight said the rule could also lead to clashes between ATF agents and private citizens, citing two violent tragedies from the 1990s that began with federal raids.

โ€œThe lessons of the Ruby Ridge and Waco standoffs should make clear that attempting to enforce such an expansive regulation could endanger countless ATF field agents who are forced to serve as the face of the Biden Administration in going after private firearms owners for constitutionally-protected firearms sales,โ€ it warned.

Byย John Solomon

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