Gun groups slam Biden admin over new ATF rule: 'Weaponizing every tool'

Second Amendment advocates are slamming a caller rule from nan Biden management that will require thousands of further firearms dealers crossed nan federation to tally inheritance checks connected buyers astatine weapon shows aliases different places extracurricular brick-and-mortar stores. 

The norm intends to adjacent a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of guns to beryllium sold each twelvemonth by unlicensed dealers who do not execute inheritance checks to guarantee nan imaginable purchaser is not legally prohibited from having a firearm. 

The National Association for Gun Rights told Fox News Digital nan caller norm will "outlaw virtually each backstage income of firearms betwixt individuals." 

"And arsenic we saw successful nan Bryan Malinowski lawsuit successful Little Rock, nan ATF is consenting to usage outrageously excessive unit – including execution – to punish violators," nan group’s president, Dudley Brown, said successful a statement. "This norm brings america 1 measurement person to Biden’s dream of Universal Gun Registration enforced by nan ATF’s jackbooted thugs." 

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Customers position semi-automatic guns connected show astatine a weapon shop successful Los Angeles, California December 19, 2012. (REUTERS/Gene Blevins/File Photo)

The Second Amendment Institute told Fox News Digital nan ATF’s caller norm is "another illustration of them going beyond their statutory authority for governmental purposes. 

"It infringes upon nan authorities of law-abiding citizens and adds unnecessary burdens to those seeking to workout their Second Amendment rights," nan statement said. 

The Gun Owners of America’s Director of Federal Affairs Aidan Johnston accused nan Biden management of "weaponizing each instrumentality successful their instrumentality container to intimidate, harass, and criminalize weapon owners pinch unlawful executive actions."

"This Backdoor Universal Registration Check norm is thing much than a move to criminalize nan waste of a azygous weapon without a inheritance check. By doing so, nan authorities hopes to guarantee that they are afloat progressive successful each firearm transfer, and yet nan records of each those transfers will extremity up successful their records database, which we person confirmed nan beingness of done FOIA requests, leaks, and legislature inquiry," Johnston said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

FILE: Assault-style rifles now banned for waste successful nan authorities are displayed astatine Freddie Bear Sports connected January 11, 2023 successful Tinley Park, Illinois.  (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Second Amendment Foundation laminitis and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb called nan caller norm "a continuation of nan Biden warfare connected guns." 

"It is different effort to get astir Congress to make caller laws without legislature approval," he said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "The president is claiming this will support guns retired of nan hands of felons, and he knows better. If history has taught america anything, it would beryllium that criminals do not get nan guns they usage done morganatic channels, and that weapon power laws person ne'er prevented criminals from obtaining a firearm." 

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Gottlieb based on that nan caller norm will only "place yet different load connected honorable citizens wanting to workout their 2nd amendment." 

The National Rifle Association said successful a connection that it is "already moving to usage each intends disposable to extremity this unlawful rule."

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, an manufacture waste and acquisition group, besides has warned of a tribunal situation if nan norm was finalized arsenic written. 

FILE PHOTO: AR-15 style rifles are displayed for waste astatine a weapon store.  (REUTERS/Bing Guan)

Lawrence Keane, nan foundation's elder vice president and wide counsel, said Thursday that nan statement was reviewing nan regularisation aft contending antecedently that nan Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was overstepping its ineligible authority.

The caller norm marks nan Biden administration’s latest effort to combat weapon violence. President Biden has said nan measurement will "keep guns retired of nan hands of home abusers and felons." 

"And my management is going to proceed to do everything we perchance tin to prevention lives. Congress needs to decorativeness nan occupation and walk cosmopolitan inheritance checks authorities now," he said. 

The rule, which was finalized this week, makes clear that anyone who sells firearms predominantly to gain a profit must beryllium federally licensed and behaviour inheritance checks, sloppy of whether they are trading connected nan internet, astatine a weapon show aliases astatine a brick-and-mortar store, Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters.

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Biden management officials said they are assured nan rule, which drew much than 380,000 nationalist comments, would withstand anticipated lawsuits from weapon authorities groups.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.