David Codrea

• Gun Rights Examiner

“The White House says tracking the bulk sale of high-powered rifles from border states gunshops …is not an emergency, and has rejected a request from the U.S. agency that monitors weapons sales to do so without public review.” the Associated Press reports.

Instead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' proposed requirement…will undergo a standard, three-month review period, opening it to public comment.

The emergency proposal was discussed in this column in mid-December, which characterized the move as “an agenda-driven power grab” and encouraged readers to submit comments objecting to it.  A follow-up cited prominent Second Amendment attorney and author David Hardy’s assessment that the proposal would be illegal, citing “several violations of the Gun Control Act, as amended by the Firearm Owners' Protection Act.”