{"id":1973,"date":"2013-10-28T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/10\/28\/batfe-we-arent-saying-it-is-illegal-or\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:04","slug":"batfe-we-arent-saying-it-is-illegal-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"BATFE &#8211; We Aren&#8217;t Saying It Is Illegal Or Wrong But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12634,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/vuurwapenblog.com\\\/2013\\\/10\\\/08\\\/de-facto-gun-registration-exists-in-the-united-states&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250816175609\\\/http:\\\/\\\/vuurwapenblog.com\\\/2013\\\/10\\\/08\\\/de-facto-gun-registration-exists-in-the-united-states\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 12:59:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 04:53:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 04:53:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12635,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Dragnet_%28series%29&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Dragnet_(series)&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives released a new &#8220;informational&#8221; YouTube video this past Thursday on private and Internet sales. The video was narrated by Rich Marianos, Assistant Director for Professional and Governmental Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The ostensible purpose of the video is to provide &#8220;guidance&#8221; regarding private and Internet sales. While noting that firearms are a legal commodity and that private sales without a background check are perfectly legal between residents of a state under the Gun Control Act of 1968 (note &#8211; state laws may vary), he then alludes to criminals obtaining firearms without going through a background check. He then makes the strong suggestion that private sellers &#8220;protect&#8221; themselves by having the transaction handled by a FFL who must perform a NICS check.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkCu4r94Wco\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I almost laughed out loud when Marianos said that AFT respects the Second Amendment rights of &#8220;our citizens who own firearms&#8221; and that they are only concerned with &#8220;traffickers&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/vuurwapenblog.com\/2013\/10\/08\/de-facto-gun-registration-exists-in-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I&#8217;m sure that explains the visit that gun blogger Andrew Tuohy of the Vuurwapen Blog<\/a> received from ATF agents last year asking about his firearms purchases.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to the deadpan delivery of Marianos which makes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dragnet_%28series%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sgt. Joe Friday of Dragnet<\/a> seem animated and his announcement that ATF has established an Internet Firearms Trafficking Unit, I am left to wonder who is jerking ATF&#8217;s chain about private and\/or Internet sales. Is it new Director B. Todd Jones, the White House, or Mayor Bloomberg and his Illegal Mayors? Someone surely is doing it because getting a new unit approved is not an everyday occurrence.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives released a new &#8220;informational&#8221; YouTube video this past Thursday on private&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[371,2496,2843,2844],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batfe","tag-internet-sales","tag-private-sales-of-firearms","tag-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9523,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/9523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}