The Trump administration is dumping more than three dozen gun regulations that would include abandoning a crackdown on illegal sales, restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness and loosening oversight of private weapons transactions.
Kris Brown, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, one of the country’s biggest gun control organizations, says Trump’s reversal of several Biden gun control policies “takes us back 100 years,” she said. “It’s really decimating A.T.F.’s ability to regulate this industry.”
The Trump administration movements are coming from various agencies.
- The Veterans Affairs Department in February removed the requirement that veterans who require a fiduciary to manage their benefits be prohibited from buying firearms, and veterans who were previously reported to the F.B.I. were being removed from its list.
- The Health and Human Services Department slashed funding for research into gun violence prevention.
- The U.S. Postal Service has proposed allowing people to ship handguns in the mail, upending a nearly century-old law.
Fortunately for Donald Trump Jr, he sits on over 300,000 shares and the board of the “Amazon of guns” company named GrabAGun, a company that went public last July.
Daddy’s new gun rules would make shipping guns to people’s homes easier by no longer requiring online buyers to submit to an in-person background check and having to pick up guns at brick-and-mortar stores.
Instead, licensed dealers would be allowed to ship guns in-state to those who verify their identity and complete a background check online. A seven-day waiting period after informing law enforcement would apply.
The ATF estimates that, eventually, half of gun buyers will use home-delivery, Reuters reports. The U.S. has by far the most amount of guns per people—about 121 for every 100 residents.