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Empower Oversight says power grab would be unconstitutional, usurping powers on Congress and infringing 2nd Amendment.

The whistleblower group that represented the IRS agents in the Hunter Biden case is warning that the Biden administration is preparing an “unconstitutional“ power grab to regulate private gun sales by requiring a background check.

In a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Empower Oversight said it had learned from two sources that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was directed by the White House to make the change and “has drafted a 1,300-page document in support of a rule that would effectively ban private sales of firearms from one citizen to another by requiring background checks for every sale.”

Empower Oversight said it believes that only Congress can make such a change because a 1986 law it passed explicitly forbade background checks for gun sales between private individuals.

[Source.](https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/atf-preparing-regulate-private-gun-sales-background-check-whistleblower) > **Empower Oversight says power grab would be unconstitutional, usurping powers on Congress and infringing 2nd Amendment.** > The whistleblower group that represented the IRS agents in the Hunter Biden case is warning that the Biden administration is preparing an “unconstitutional“ power grab to regulate private gun sales by requiring a background check. > In a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Empower Oversight said it had learned from two sources that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was directed by the White House to make the change and “has drafted a 1,300-page document in support of a rule that would effectively ban private sales of firearms from one citizen to another by requiring background checks for every sale.” > Empower Oversight said it believes that only Congress can make such a change because a 1986 law it passed explicitly forbade background checks for gun sales between private individuals.

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How is this even going to be enforced? I have a pistol, you have $300. We trade and no one but us knows...

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How is this even going to be enforced? I have a pistol, you have $300. We trade and no one but us knows...

Setting aside the blatant illegality of the action, I would imagine they'd take advantage of their extensive surveillance capabilities.

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Still. A private sale between two people is going to be hard to see, unless one of the faggots posts about it on faecesbook.

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Still. A private sale between two people is going to be hard to see, unless one of the faggots posts about it on faecesbook.

I totally agree with you. I doubt they are concerned with the actual enforcement of the rule. They just want to incrementally take away our rights by bureaucratic fiat. Tightening the noose, little by little.

We're frogs, and they're slowly increasing the temperature of the water in the pot.

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SCOTUS has already ruled they have no such authority. Must go to Congress. The US Constitution says it's illegal.

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SCOTUS has already ruled they have no such authority. Must go to Congress. The US Constitution says it's illegal.

Exactly. And yet, the Biden DOJ has plans to try anyway.

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There needs to be punitive actions when lawmakers try to do shit like this.

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This isn't even a lawmaker. It's the bureaucracy doing it.