Recognizing the need to revamp outdated and restrictive gun laws, U.S Senators Mark Begich (D Alaska) and Orrin Hatch (R Utah) have introduced the Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act. The bill allows for the interstate sale of firearms and removes several antiquated and unnecessary restrictions imposed on interstate firearms transactions.

The new law would allow:

    Individuals to buy handguns, as well as rifles or shotguns, from licensed dealers in another state, subject to the background check requirement. The buyer and dealer would still have to meet in person and comply
    with the laws of both states;
   
   Dealers to engage in their business at gun shows in other states, but would have to comply with the laws in the state where the gun show takes place;
 
  The bill would reduce theft and loss of firearms during shipment between dealers by getting rid of a provision that says dealers may not transfer firearms to one another face to face, away from their business premises.
  Currently, dealers who agree on a sale are forced to return to their businesses and ship firearms to one another which involves some risk of theft or loss. The new law would allow an in-person exchange.

i like the sound of this. what do you guys think?


source: http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/releases?ID=23d4f864-2469-4ee3-9fba-7eb0834ab192

I don't have a problem for the new law to "allow" for a face to face transaction at gunshows or whatever across a state line from where a vendors brick and mortar is at.  As long as it doesn't mandate a face to face because then that would crimp a whole LOT of sales from a LOT of vendors.  Seems reasonable enough to me being on the mainland, but it obviously wouldn't apply to Hawaii, unless a buyer was on vacation in the islands and bought something and instead of shipping it home they chose to go he checked baggage route........but that has just as much or more of ending up lost or otherwise missing.

I'm all for digging up and eliminating outdated lgislation that needs to be removed from the books to reduce clutter.  It really ould streamline things and antiquated laws would either be brought up to date or eliminated out right.

Isn't all this stuff already legal? I guess it does add the ability to buy handguns directly in another state.

I'm all for digging up and eliminating outdated lgislation that needs to be removed from the books to reduce clutter.  It really ould streamline things and antiquated laws would either be brought up to date or eliminated out right.

I also think removing antiquated laws are the best thing as well.

I like the sound of this legislation, but I've got a better idea: repeal the Gun Control Act of 1968!  (I'll take what I can get, though.  The perfect is the enemy of the good and all that.)