Senators Announce Deal on Gun Trafficking

[BikerHT]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/04/us/politics/ap-us-congress-guns.html?hp&_r=0


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 4, 2013 at 5:59 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators has reached a deal on legislation that would for the first time create specific federal prohibitions on gun trafficking and the straw purchasing of firearms.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy says the bill would establish tough penalties for those who buy a firearm or ammunition with the intent of transferring it to someone else. The measure also would make it a crime to smuggle firearms out of the United States.

The bill was crafted by Leahy, two other Democrats and two Republicans and will be part of a package of four gun control measures that will be considered Thursday by the Judiciary Committee. The committee has taken the lead on the gun violence issue following the December school shootings in Newtown, Conn.
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That's the whole story. No other details were available. And now - you can't even buy ammo for anyone else!

 

[n8thegr8]

So background checks on ammo then....great....

 

[yukonjack]

I remember back in the last 70's when you had to show your DL to buy ammo and the dealer had a log book for the transaction. Buy it now while you still can!!!

 

[Fyrtwuck]

I remember back in the last 70's when you had to show your DL to buy ammo and the dealer had a log book for the transaction. Buy it now while you still can!!!

I remember that too. I used to go to Mashburns and Southwest Shooters and had to produce ID to buy a box of .22.

 

[Causality]

What country did I wake up in this morning?

 

[Spata]

Piece by piece the communists will take it all.

 

[53convert]

So background checks on ammo then....great....

Thats not in the article????????

 

[n8thegr8]

Thats not in the article????????

How else would they be able to prosecute you for "straw purchases" of ammo? If not an actual NICS check, then at least having to sign saying "Yes, this ammo is for me" and logging it. None of these laws can be implemented without some form of tracking.

 

[Raoul Duke]

Is there any more info out there anywhere on the ammunition component of this bill? I can't seem to find anything else about it.

Here's the text of the Leahy bill:

S. 54: Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act of 2013

 

[KOPBET]

DOJ isn't gonna like that bill. :-)