Biden Administration approves expansion of background checks on gun sales - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The purpose of the new rule is twofold, officials said: first, to pull legitimate sellers into the regulatory sunlight and, second, to deprive brokers who knowingly traffic in criminal gun sales of a legal shield provided by the vagaries of federal firearms laws.
50% : President Biden, repeatedly blocked from enacting universal background checks by Republicans in Congress, is leveraging a provision of the sweeping bipartisan gun control law passed in 2022 to achieve an elusive policy goal that enjoys widespread public support: closing the so-called gun show loophole.
37% : After a preliminary version of the rule was announced last year, Gun Owners of America, a group that has opposed Biden's efforts at gun control, called the regulation a "backdoor" universal background check and vowed that its "attorneys will be preparing a lawsuit.

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