In issuing a new rule to close the gun show loophole for firearm sales, the Biden administration isn’t just narrowing one of the easier paths by which criminals obtain guns. It’s attempting to close a sacred portal into American gun culture.
“If you sell guns predominantly to earn a profit, you must be licensed and you must conduct background checks,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a recent press briefing. Other private firearms transfers, however, including among family members, will remain legal without a background check.The need for such regulation has long been obvious. Between 2017 and 2021, federal investigations linked unlicensed dealers to 68,388 trafficked guns and 368 shootings.
In addition to the Columbine shooters, the private sales loophole armed a man who killed nine people at two Atlanta brokerage firms in 1999; a man who killed six of his co-workers and injured eight others at an aircraft parts plant in Meridian, Mississippi, in 2003; a man who killed seven people and wounded 25 others in Midland and Odessa, Texas, in 2019; and a teen who killed two people and wounded seven others at his former high school in St. Louis in 2022.
By contrast, the demand to give dangerous people easy access to guns is politically unpopular, morally untenable, and logically bizarre. Yet it’s consistent with a movement that decries violence while insisting that cities, states, and the federal government must not regulate the lethality of firearms, who can access them or where and how they can be carried — regardless of the threat they pose to public health.
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