Federal court rejects NRA’s challenge to plan tracking gun sales

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Federal court rejects NRA’s challenge to plan tracking gun sales

Court rejects challenge to government’s requirement for gun dealers to report multiple sales of semi-automatic weapons

The National Rifle Association has suffered a rare setback in its crusade to block new gun regulations after a federal appeals court allowed the U.S. government to go ahead with a plan to reduce the smuggling of semi-automatic weapons across the Mexican border.

The new rules, introduced by Barack Obama under his executive powers in July 2011, require gun dealers located in states abutting the border to report to federal officials any multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles such as AK-47s to individuals within a five-day period. The administration presented the requirement as a justified move to “detect and disrupt the illegal weapons trafficking networks” operating in Mexico.

The obligation to report such multiple sales would apply to all gun dealers in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas in an attempt to cut off the supply of military-style weapons being smuggled into Mexico. The north of Mexico is being sapped by a virtual war between law enforcement and drug cartels.

But the NRA under the leadership of Wayne LaPierre vociferously objected to the plan, complaining that the measure was a ruse by Obama to introduce a register of gun sales via the back door.

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Full article here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/31/federal-court-rejects-nras-challenge-to-plan-tracking-gun-sales/

[Hoyt]

1. Bout time courts started kicking that terrorist organization around.