bearingarms.com By Tom Knighton
The ATF is supposed to try and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, though it seems they spend most of their time making life difficult for law-abiding gun owners.
Now, though, it seems they have a target that isn’t you or me.
President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act last summer, making it a federal crime to traffic in firearms and stiffening penalties for “straw purchases” made on behalf of people who aren’t allowed to own guns.
Since then, new data from federal prosecutors shows they’ve charged 31 people in 17 cases under the new legislation.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokeswoman Carolyn Collins called the laws “powerful new tools.”
