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[-] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 24 points 7 months ago

Amazing! I can't believe after all this time someone finally passed this common sense legislation.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The legislation that directed these rules to be written was actually passed by Congress a few years ago.

It takes quite some time for new federal regulations to be written and enacted, with lengthy public comment periods.

[-] MysticDaedra@fedia.io 0 points 7 months ago

That's a bit disingenuous. The actual legislation doesn't mention this issue at all, and one of the co-authors has even come out and said that the ATF's reliance on that law is perversion of the intent of the legislation.

Anything involving a constitutional right should have significantly more say by elected officials and significantly less say by agency bureaucrats.

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