The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) has proposed a rule requiring someone who wants to sell their firearm to obtain a federal firearms dealer license to do so. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond has joined a multi-state lawsuit to stop that rule from going into effect.
Drummond and the other Attorneys General contend the rule will criminalize law-abiding gun owners if they decide to sell a firearm to a friend or a family member.
“In states like Oklahoma, it is a regular occurrence for a gun owner to sell or trade firearms with trusted friends and family. These individuals are violating no laws and they are well within their rights to sell or trade firearms without a license because it is not in the ordinary course of their business. I do not wish for law-abiding Oklahomans to be forced to seek licensure as a firearms dealer just to sell a single firearm. This rule is an outrageous violation of our constitutional rights and an affront to the common sense of every Oklahoma gun owner I know,” said Drummond.
The lawsuit was filed this week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The other states joining the effort are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.
