The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act has seen 250 unlawful gun traffickers charged by the DOJ. Over 1,300 unlawful weapons have been confiscated, together with 190 AR-15s.
The Washington Post reported:
By way of the top of October, the division has prosecuted 207 defendants with the gun trafficking provision of the legislation. Eighty have been charged with violating the legislation’s provision in opposition to straw purchasers — individuals who purchase weapons on behalf of different individuals who sometimes will not be legally allowed to personal a weapon due to their felony historical past or different causes, federal officers stated.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022 has additionally led to the seizure of over 1,300 weapons, together with 190 AR-style rifles which can be steadily a weapon of alternative in mass taking pictures assaults, based on figures compiled by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). Lawmakers started engaged on the laws within the wake of the mass killing at an elementary faculty in Uvalde, Tex., which killed 21 individuals, most of them young children.
The difficulty isn’t Second Modification rights, or the limiting of People to legally buy weapons. The Safer Communities Act is getting used to cease unlawful weapons gross sales and gun traffickers. If somebody is shopping for a gun illegally it is actually because they’re legally prohibited from proudly owning firearms, or they intend to make use of a firearm in a criminal offense.
If the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act can have this kind of influence, as a comparatively smaller piece of laws, think about what motivated Congress and president might do to maintain unlawful weapons off of the streets and defend the American individuals from gun violence.
The influence of the laws is one other win for President Biden, and it exhibits the American individuals the kind of good {that a} president can do.
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