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Walmart Ends NM Gun Sales - Refuses to Conduct Private Party Background Checks


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From the Walmart thread. Shades of Illinois' Fix the FOID bill:

 

WALMART SHUTS DOWN ALL GUN SALES IN NEW MEXICO AFTER STATE EXPANDS BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIREMENTS

 

Big box retailer Walmart will no longer sell firearms in its New Mexico stores after a universal background check measure went into effect in the state on Monday, requiring federally registered firearms sellers to facilitate gun sales between private parties.

 

Instead, the company opted to drop the federal licenses for its New Mexico locations altogether, preventing Walmart from selling guns within state lines.

 

The New Mexico law, enacted in March after Democrats captured the reins of statewide government for the first time in eight years, expanded background check requirements for firearms sales to include transactions between private parties, a level of scrutiny that federal law does not require.

 

To facilitate these sales, the new law mandates that federally licensed gun sellers such as Walmart, who are already required to conduct background checks by querying the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), assist private sellers by conducting background checks on their behalf.

 

"As a general merchandise retailer and grocer, Walmart is not currently designed to conduct background checks for private-party transfers under New Mexico's new firearms law," Walmart's director of communications Tiffany Wilson told Newsweek in a written statement. "The company has decided to surrender its [licenses] and no longer sell firearms in our New Mexico stores."

 

Wilson cited fears that the law would require Walmart employees "to handle and potentially store handguns and modern sporting rifles," which she said were firearms that the retailer "does not sell" and that employees are "not trained to handle."

 

https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-new-mexico-gun-sales-1447768

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1) Guess where all those gun purchase records just went? NTC. We've already seen the ATF can't be trusted to not violate federal law regarding gun registration. After all, if there wasn't a gun registration database then none of the information in this article would be valid.

 

https://legalbeagle.com/6022558-check-guns-history.html

 

2) Who are we to argue with the state that has more PhD's per capita than another state in the country? /sarcasm

 

On a side note, Alien Gear Holsters wrote a fantastic article about this. It's the most informative article I've read on the subject.

 

http://aliengearholsters.com/blog/atf-gun-serial-number-checks/

 

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1) Guess where all those gun purchase records just went? NTC. We've already seen the ATF can't be trusted to not violate federal law regarding gun registration. After all, if there wasn't a gun registration database then none of the information in this article would be valid. https://legalbeagle.com/6022558-check-guns-history.html 2) Who are we to argue with the state that has more PhD's per capita than another state in the country? /sarcasm On a side note, Alien Gear Holsters wrote a fantastic article about this. It's the most informative article I've read on the subject. http://aliengearholsters.com/blog/atf-gun-serial-number-checks/ Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

 

Bad link . 404 not found on the holsters blog.

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A law requiring ammo sellers to be FFLs and do NICS checks for ammo sales isn't far-fetched, considering CA already mandates it.

bans online ammo sales, requires in person ammo purchase for BGC, etc...a California idea coming your way soon.

 

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/california-ammunition-background-check-system-failures-bugs-or-features/

 

...The ammo background check process so far is impossibly buggy and glitch-ridden. Retailers are turning away customers because they cant log in or navigate the kludgy system....

 

 

To keep relevant, it is hard enough to buy ammo at Walmart without such additional restrictions

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