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Justice Department finalizes rules to close ‘gun show loophole’ | The change was touted by the White House as the biggest increase in gun regulation in decades (wapo.st)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Amazing! I can't believe after all this time someone finally passed this common sense legislation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The legislation that directed these rules to be written was actually passed by Congress a few years ago.

It takes quite some time for new federal regulations to be written and enacted, with lengthy public comment periods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is election year performative action with no direct effect on reducing gun crime.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Actually violent crime has been dropping consistently for decades!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

This won't actually do anything from my understanding though. I thought this wasn't going to change the private sales between people walking around gun shows from selling to each other, just the vendors in booths who are already required to do back ground checks.