ATF using straw purchase law to expand government control of private firearms transfers
The Supreme Court rarely takes up Second Amendment cases, so when it does, gun owners know their rights are in the cross hairs.
The
Abramski ruling will be key to determining how far President Obama can
push his gun-control agenda. Mr. Obama wants to expand background checks
to include private transactions so that the government would know
exactly who has a gun. That is not what the Founding Fathers intended.
On
Wednesday, the high court heard oral arguments in Bruce J. Abramskiv.
United States. The justices will decide whether to overturn an appeals
court decision that said Mr. Abramski broke federal straw purchasing
laws when he bought a gun with the intent to resell it to his elderly
uncle, even though neither man is prohibited from ownership.
The
court will have to reconcile conflicting rulings in lower appeals courts
on whether a gun purchaser’s intent to ever transfer a gun in the
future to a legal person is relevant in the background check at the time
of purchase.
Mr. Abramski, a former police officer, bought the
firearm in his home state of Virginia in 2009 because he could get a
good price as former law enforcement.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
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