• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    8 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.

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      8 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.