Latest / Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights / Individual Gun Sales and Gun Dealers Under Fire
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- 0:15Welcome to the Livestream Podcast.
- 0:16My name is Jeff Dowdle and I've been a licensed fireman dealer for the last 16 years.
- 0:20And this podcast, we're talking about all things related to the state amendment or any other story going on in the day, or maybe something from my personal life.
- 0:27So welcome, welcome, welcome.
- 0:28This is, it's been a week for me.
- 0:30Yesterday we moved my youngest into the dorm at his college.
- 0:34And so now we are empty nesters and that is kind of a tough pill to swallow.
- 0:39But I don't want to go into all that.
- 0:41Let's talk about how, what the Biden administration thinks about gun dealers.
- 0:45It is really a mixed bag if you ask me, but I will tell you overall, they don't like gun dealers.
- 0:51They don't like guns.
- 0:52We know that.
- 0:53And gun dealers are just a facilitator for that.
- 0:56And they have tried and tried to run gun dealers out of business.
- 1:00And now though, they are using gun dealers to manipulate the second amendment, I think.
- 1:06So if you remember from the Bipartisan Safer Community Act.
- 1:11One of the things we talked about in there was that they changed the definition.
- 1:14Of being a dealer.
- 1:16It used to be that someone that was engaged in the business of selling guns to now with somebody that has the to an ambiguous statement that says they're predominantly earning a profit.
- 1:27And so nobody really knows what that means, but basically if you sell a gun potentially and you make money on it, you are a gun dealer.
- 1:35And now, according to John Crump from ammo land, he's got the rough drafts of that rule that, that the ATF is.
- 1:44Drafting now to essentially eliminate all private sales of firearms and Biden wants to close what they call the digital loophole, which are things like gun broker, arms lists and stuff where private individuals can sell firearms to one another.
- 1:59So what they're trying to do now is basically if you are selling a gun and you're going to make a profit, you have to be a licensed gun dealer to do that.
- 2:09Now, how are they going to enforce that?
- 2:12I don't know.
- 2:12They can't even enforce and cover the guns dealers that we have now and So what happens if you sell a gun and you aren't a licensed dealer?
- 2:22Well, now you probably committed a felony.
- 2:24So whether or not they can enforce it or not is one thing, but they're going to make this, they're trying to make this change to impact every deal, whether it's at a gun show online or to your neighbor, that if you're bought a gun.
- 2:3910 years ago for 300 and you're going to sell it now for 350.
- 2:44You're a gun dealer and you need to go get your FFL.
- 2:47And that's going to be a problem.
- 2:48Here's a story that came across my desk.
- 2:50It's about a farmer, a dairy farmer, and I believe he's Amish and his name is Ruben King, and he has been convicted by a federal jury for selling firearms without a license despite, you know, their.
- 3:07Being, you know, there's no currently legal requirement to be a gun, gun dealer.
- 3:12And so here's, here's a case where they're already starting to go after gun dealers, gun dealers.
- 3:17And what happened was an undercover police officer bought five firearms from King between October 24th, 2019 to March 16th, 2020.
- 3:28Two 2020 in three separate transactions.
- 3:30And according to these documents, the undercover offers soft and filmed an estimated 150 long guns marked with price tags and arrayed on tables in Kings Barn for sale.
- 3:42So he had a lot of guns.
- 3:44He was selling them.
- 3:46And he's act, so by that means he is acting as a firearms dealer, they're interpreting it.
- 3:51Now that wasn't his business, he's a dairy farmer.
- 3:54He wasn't violating any laws, but the ATF is so vague on things, even today, that they determined that he was a dealer.
- 4:04And, you know, that is a problem with everything that happens with the ATF, is that they, they have no clear specifications.
- 4:12And.
- 4:13About what it requires.
- 4:14And so nobody really knows it could be said that this gentleman had a collection of guns that he was wanting to sell.
- 4:21There's nothing wrong with selling your personal property.
- 4:24I don't have to have a license if I want to sell this laptop.
- 4:27I've got, I don't have to have a license.
- 4:29Even if I want to sell my car.
- 4:32To my, to my neighbor.
- 4:33Even if I want to make a profit on it.
- 4:36Now, if I want to be a dealer, a car dealer, and, and benefit from some of those, the being an actual licensed car dealer where I can go to auctions.
- 4:47And I can buy from auctions at a reduced price and then advertise and sell those cars at a profit and do that regularly.
- 4:56Then I'm going to have to go through the licensing requirements to get, get a dealer.
- 5:01If I want to make an arrangement with a manufacturer, Chevrolet or whatever.
- 5:05To buy cars from them and then mark them up and sell them, I am going to have to be a licensed car dealer.
- 5:12But if I want to take my car and sell it to my neighbor and make a profit and then take my son's car and sell it and make a profit, I don't need to be a licensed car dealer.
- 5:21Car dealer for that.
- 5:22If you want to be a licensed gun dealer to where you can go and you can buy from manufacturers, you can buy from wholesalers at a dealer's price and then mark that up and sell it, then you become a licensed dealer.
- 5:37If you want to be able to do transfers for people.
- 5:40From when they buy it on the internet and they need to pick it up, you become a licensed dealer.
- 5:45But if you want to go out and take it and sell somebody your own gun, you don't need to be a licensed dealer.
- 5:52You don't, you're not benefiting from the perks of being a licensed dealer.
- 5:55The reason you're licensed and regulated because there's other.
- 5:58Means of doing that you can get Guns from different sources than you can if you're not licensed But it doesn't mean that if you've got a gun, you can't sell it You can't it doesn't mean that if you've got 10 guns, you can't sell it It just means that you're not licensed to go and benefit from being able to buy from other sources That's the difference between a licensed gun dealer and an unlicensed gun dealer the atf And the Biden administration want to make everybody a licensed gun dealer so that they can control them and they can restrict them.
- 6:31But on the flip side, they believe we're evil.
- 6:35Okay.
- 6:35So they're going to put a rule in place that says if you're going to buy and sell a gun, you've got to be a dealer now, but we don't really like gun dealers from the, every town group that is already promoting this, this helped promote the, the bipartisan Safer Communities Act and putting in this thing about being a licensed dealer.
- 6:57Here's from a study that they did, and this is the report from the study.
- 7:01And it's really not what's said, but it's what they're trying to say.
- 7:05So, here's just some of their key, what they call key findings.
- 7:08The U.
- 7:09S.
- 7:09has nearly 78, 000 licensed gun, gun dealers.
- 7:12More than all the post offices in the United States, more than the number of McDonald's.
- 7:16Burger King, Subway, and Wendy's.
- 7:19Over half of all gun dealers are located in residential communities, including nearly 9, 000 dealers licensed to manufacture firearms.
- 7:26Residential license holders, some in private homes such as me, do not need to notify neighbors or place signage indicating that they can sell or manufacture guns in their homes.
- 7:35One in five public elementary schools is within a half a mile of dealers are bad.
- 7:43A criminal element is associated with gun dealers is what they're saying.
- 7:48I guarantee you there's more pot stores in America than there are gun dealers.
- 7:53I go up to Oklahoma where it's legal and there's CBD tea, CBD and weed stores, 30 of them.
- 8:00Within a block of each other.
- 8:01It seems like it says there are roughly five incidents per day where firearms go missing from gun dealers through robbery, burglary, larceny, and other laws.
- 8:09So they want to make it required to be a gun dealer, but here's another thing says while federal agencies recommend annual or more frequent inspections for elevators and restaurants, federal license holders can expect to be inspected at current rates less than once per decade.
- 8:24States with the most.
- 8:25The most gun dealers per capita have 10 times higher rates of guns trafficked to another state and subsequently used in crime than states with the fewest gun dealers.
- 8:34So they want to make everybody gun dealers, but they acknowledge the fact that the ATF can't even regulate the current number of guns they have.
- 8:42So we don't like gun dealers.
- 8:45We want to make everybody go through a gun dealer.
- 8:47And some of the recommendations that this study had was, you know, that they raise the fee of of being a licensed gun dealer.
- 8:56They need to make it harder to become a gun dealer.
- 8:59They need to place more restrictions on gun dealers.
- 9:01That's the find, what the recommendations from this finding are.
- 9:05So you're going to make it much more tougher to be a gun dealer, but on the flip side, you can't sell a gun unless you're a gun dealer.
- 9:12So what are they going to, they're slowly crimping it in on both sides, meaning you can't become a gun dealer and you can't sell guns unless you're a gun dealer.
- 9:21So what does that mean?
- 9:22We can't sell guns.
- 9:25They hate us.
- 9:26They want to put us in jail like Mr.
- 9:28King for trying to sell our own guns that we have, that we've purchased.
- 9:32It's our own personal property.
- 9:34There's nothing that I, that I have that I can't sell except for guns apparently if, as an individual.
- 9:41So the ATF and the Biden administration are Constantly going to be at war with us if we, if we do not get them out of the office and clean out the ATF.
- 9:54They hate us.
- 9:55They hate gun dealers.
- 9:56Gun dealers, we're the ATF, we're the front lines.
- 10:01The number of, of everything has to come through us, and if we're so bad and evil, That's the implication that we're all gun dealers are, we're just letting people come in and buy guns that aren't supposed to.
- 10:15We ignore the background check.
- 10:18We, we say, Hey, you can't qualify for a background check.
- 10:21Why don't you go out there and get somebody in the crossing street, wink, wink, and they'll have them buy it for you.
- 10:25That's not happening.
- 10:27These gun dealers, by far, are law abiding American patriots that want to do the right thing and they want to support the Second Amendment.
- 10:36And they're out there trying to keep us safe.
- 10:38And just by being a gun dealer doesn't mean that you're inciting a criminal element to be around you.
- 10:45I would probably...
- 10:48argue that gun shops are the safest place you want to be, right?
- 10:52And so what is it, what is, what is the, the, the purpose of all this?
- 10:57The purpose of all of this is to eliminate everybody's ability to buy guns.
- 11:02They can't say, they cannot bomb.
- 11:04That's what, you know, the second amendment has stood up strong over the years and we have to give it to our forefathers for putting it in place.
- 11:10So they, they, you know, they can't keep They can't get rid of of guns, so they're going to crimp down on manufacturers, dealers, and the individuals to make it all harder for us to get them.
- 11:22And this is just another case of it.
- 11:24So watch out for what's going to be coming on along.
- 11:27We'll be keeping you up to date on this new rule.
- 11:30It's not, it's in draft form.
- 11:32It hasn't been published.
- 11:33There's nothing for, to be making comments about.
- 11:35But.
- 11:36As it comes along, it's going to be, this is going to be critical.
- 11:39This is going to be a critical rule, just as important as the pistol brace and the, and the the go, the partial receiver rules that came in.
- 11:45We're going to have to jump on this and, and make comments because the ATF is going to try and eliminate everybody's ability to purchase and sell firearms.
- 11:56Support the Second Amendment.
- 11:57Protect it, defend it, do whatever you can.
- 12:01We are in this for the fight.
- 12:03We have to keep the second amendment.
- 12:05And by that, I mean, who's going to help us.
- 12:07I'm going to continue to preach it.
- 12:08Vote for Donald J.
- 12:09Trump.
- 12:10He is our hope coming up this next election.
- 12:12We have to clean out the ATF, the FBI, CDC, the Department of Education, all those places we need to wipe them out.
- 12:21We need to clean them out.
- 12:22We need to get the administrative state out of the, out of the government.
- 12:25I appreciate for listening and thank you.