Eliminate in-person background checks
Reducing opportunities for sellers to identify suspicious purchasers and increasing risks of fraud and deepfake impersonation
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Say NO to Trump’s “Amazon for Guns!”
The Trump administration wants to let you easily buy and ship firearms straight to your front porch.
The Trump administration unleashed dozens of proposed changes that might look like technical tweaks, but in reality would significantly weaken firearms regulations and increase gun violence nationwide.
Taken together, a number of these measures would design a loosely regulated online gun marketplace that would end background checks as we know them and — for the first time ever — let you buy and deliver firearms straight to your doorstep.
Guns Aren’t Groceries
The +30 proposals include measures to:
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Loosen restrictions on highly lethal firearms
Source read more about Loosen restrictions on highly lethal firearmsLike machine guns and short-barreled rifles
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Let sellers destroy sales records
Source read more about Let sellers destroy sales recordsMaking it harder for law enforcement to solve crime
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Make it almost impossible to revoke the licenses of reckless gun sellers
Source read more about Make it almost impossible to revoke the licenses of reckless gun sellersLetting them stay in business and keep fueling crime and violence
One proposed rule even explicitly warns that implementation could result in “mass casualty events.”
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guns would be delivered directly to people’s homes every single year. With these proposals, guns will be more likely than ever to end up in the hands of dangerous purchasers, including gun traffickers, domestic abusers, and children.
With guns the #1 killer of children in America, the last thing we should do is weaken safeguards
The Trump administration’s proposals would fundamentally dismantle the safeguards around how guns are bought and sold in America, a country where guns outnumber people. One measure would eliminate the requirement for in-person background checks, which have blocked 5 million illegal gun transfers to date. Instead, a virtual alternative would have little human interaction, dangerously reducing opportunities for sellers to identify suspicious purchasers while increasing vulnerability to fraud and deepfake impersonation. Bottom line: Rolling back common-sense safeguards in the face of America's gun violence crisis is unconscionable.