Posted August 19, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The idea of internet gun sales has been a boogieman for the anti-gun side for decades now. It presents an image of anyone sidestepping regulations with just a click of their mouse, able to get pretty much any gun they want dropped right to their house, next to an order from Amazon.

Of course, anyone who understands American gun laws knows that’s total BS. You can order online, but it has to go through an FFL. At worst, a website like a web forum or social media platform can introduce folks who can then do a face-to-face transfer, all within the law.

Yet why is Kamala Harris, a former attorney general who should understand the law, tweeting out this over the weekend?

Guns shouldn’t be a click away for any domestic terrorist with a laptop. The new executive action I announced this week will help close the online sales loophole. As president, I will act to keep guns out of the wrong hands.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 17, 2019

Now, my initial reaction was that this was more of the same “online sales” bugaboo we’ve been seeing for quite some time. However, some discussion on Twitter directed my attention to Harris’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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