Ruining the free republic in America today... inch by inch

[Patriot]

Equal justice under the law?  Wrong as it is, notice how the US Federales at the ATF are applying this BS to citizens (arms dealers) in only a few states!  Just one more example of the erosion of our liberties.  Wake up America.

ATF to Require U.S. Arm Dealers in SW Border States to Report Multiple Sales of Semi-Automatic Rifles

Wednesday, December 22, 2010
By Edwin Mora

(CNSNews.com) - The acting director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) says he expects the White House to approve an ATF proposal to impose an emergency regulation requiring U.S. gun dealers along the southwestern border to report multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles...

Ken Melson, ATF's acting director, said during a Dec. 20 Webcast, "We took this step as a way to help gain actionable law enforcement intelligence, which we believe will help reduce criminal firearms trafficking along the Southwest border."

...The White House press office did not return CNSNews.com's requests for comment...

..."We oppose this," Rachel Parsons, a spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association (NRA), told CNSNews.com. "We support legitimate proposals to curb gun crime. This will do absolutely nothing to address the problem in Mexico. All it will do is further burden law-abiding people and won't affect the problem in Mexico at all."

"We think this is bargaining away our Second Amendment and our freedom, and this is a Mexico problem, and the solution resides in Mexico," she said. "These drug lords are armed with fully automatic firearms, Rocket-Propelled Grenades, armored vehicles – they don't care about semi-automatic rifles in the United States."

"This mandate will not only violate federal statutory law prohibiting a federal gun registry, it will also give the [ATF] another excuse to harass American gun dealers, while doing nothing to address the problem of border violence," the Gun Owners of America (GOA) said in a Dec. 20 statement.


Full story here:  http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/atf-require-us-arm-dealers-sw-border-sta