WASHINGTON — Democratic House Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries defended his party’s push for a universal background check bill Wednesday, claiming that any enforcement of the legislation — including federal firearm registration — will be left to the Department of Justice to decide.
Efforts to expand federal firearm background checks to all private sales could eventually lead to federal firearms registration, a potential that worries some Second Amendment advocates and sympathetic Republicans.
“The Department of Justice and the FBI will have primary responsibility for enforcing the requirements that we hope will be enacted into law consistent with the values of the overwhelming majority of the American people,” Jeffries said.
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6 comments:
CIVIL WAR COMING
Democrats should be tested for TDS and if found to have it take their guns away.
The communist state of Maryland already forces registration of regulated firearms...I'm sure they would be delighted to inform the federal gov't of how many I have...
Molon Labe
Following the same steps that Hitler took
When you buy a firearm and fill out the paperwork it goes to the ATF and filed. How do you think they can trace a weapon and where it was purchased and by whom. Is this not a National Registry?
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