Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Amid ATF Fast And Furious Scandal, House Democrats Point To Weak Gun Laws [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)The new legislation would look like this:
http://democrats.oversight.house.gov/images/stories/MALONE_080_xml.pdf
The current laws are inadequate because there is no specific statute against firearms trafficking, which means that traffickers are prosecuted for paperwork violations like "lying and buying". According to many experts, like the ones I've quoted above, having a law that specifically makes gun trafficking a crime, like this one, would make it easier to prosecute and convict gun traffickers. So, apparently, this law is actually not simply a restatement of current law.
If you think this is no different from current law, then maybe you would like to point to the statute currently in place that is identical to this one, and then go on to explain why whatever statute you have in mind is not actually being used to prosecute gun traffickers, and then explain why so many experts seem to think that having an explicit gun trafficking law would be so helpful.