AG Barr Talks Up Background Checks, Trump Verbally Beats Down Beto

By Cam Edwards

We may be inching towards some sort of public statement by President Trump on gun control, though when it will come is still anyone’s guess. Attorney General William Barr was at the Capitol yesterday speaking to several Republican lawmakers, and according to the Daily Caller‘s Amber Athey, background checks were a big topic of discussion.

The Daily Caller obtained a copy of an idea sheet circulating among Republican members, which indicates that the legislation in question would expand background checks to include all commercially advertised unlicensed sales.

“Consistent with the Manchin-Toomey draft legislation, a background-check requirement would be extended to all advertised commercial sales, including sales at gun shows,” the handout reads. “Background checks would be conducted either through a [Federal Firearm Licensee] or through a newly-created class of licensed transfer agents.”

You can read the document for yourself here, but the big takeaway is that the White House appears to be on board, at least as of Tuesday afternoon, with expanding background check requirements to all “commercially advertised unlicensed sales”, meaning at least some private sales or transfers of firearms. That is likely to be a “no go” for many gun owners, although the fact that …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms