Biden Administration Proposes Major Expansion Of Gun Sale Background Checks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : President Joe Biden ordered the Justice Department earlier this year to write the regulation so the government could get "as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation."
49% : Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of the authors of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, told HuffPost earlier this year that the law's expanding meaning of "engaged in the business" would basically fulfill Democrats' goal of enacting universal background checks, though experts have said the change would not encompass all private gun sales.
46% : At the time it was drafted, it wasn't clear how many people would be affected, since it would be up to the ATF to put it through regulation.
44% : Mark Collins, director of federal policy for Brady, a gun control group, said the new regulation would not be tantamount to universal background checks.
40% : "These activities undermine the law, endanger public safety, create significant burdens on law enforcement, and are unfair to the many licensed dealers who make considerable efforts to follow the law."

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