More Executive "Regs" on the way...

[mehavey]

> The Justice Department plans to move forward this
> year with more than a dozen new gun-related regulations,
> according to list of rules the agency has proposed to
> enact before the end of the Obama administration.
>
> The regulations range from new restrictions on high-
> powered pistols to gun storage requirements. Chief
> among them is a renewed effort to keep guns out of
> the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have
> been convicted of domestic abuse.
http://thehill.com/regulation/243520-administration-preps-new-gun-regulations

Should anyone be surprised... (other than it took this long)?

The "...who's disqualified..." aspects are covered in the article. But does anyone have insight to what is meant by/in store for "high-powered pistols"?

(and a Federal-level "gun storage..." reqm't could be a real camel's nose.)

 

[Frank Ettin]

It looks like more vague speculation from a questionable source.

Regulations may only be promulgated under authority conferred by statute and within the scope of that authority. They must also be published for public comment before becoming final.

Until the proposed regulations are actually published so we can see exactly what is being proposed, and under what statutory authority, there's nothing to discuss.

Closed.