I haven’t done a deep dive on legislation lately, so let’s take a look at HR 6225 Federal Firearm Licensee Act, sponsored by Illinois DIMwit Robin Kelly.

First, get past the bill’s name. It is not just Federal Firearms Licensee regulation. So what is it? Everything. The kitchen sink might even be in there.

Section “(36) The term ‘facilitator’ means any person engaged in the business of hosting a commercial marketplace in which offers for firearm sales, purchases, or other transfers are allowed to be made,

This is new. Landlords would have to have a federal license to lease to FFLs. A thousand bucks. Per year.

We can’t have those nasty “ghost guns” out there.

Sec. 3 “(40) (A) The term ‘frame or receiver’—

“(i) means a part of a weapon that provides or is intended to provide the housing or structure to hold or integrate 1 or more fire control components, even if pins or other attachments are required to connect those components to the housing or structure; and

“(ii) includes a blank, casting, or machined body, that requires modification (including machining, drilling, or molding) to be used as part of a functional firearm, and that is designed and intended to be used in the assembly of a functional firearm, unless the blank, casting, or machined body has had—

So much for 80% — or 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, or 10% — unfinished blanks. If it’s vaguely receiver-shaped, and could be worked into a firearm, it would be a firearm. For that matter, the definition is so vague that plumbing suppliers may need an FFL, and to serialize all their pipes.

I expect empty, aluminum cans to be next.

Next up is the upper/lower receiver problem, where AR-pattern lowers do not meet the definition of receiver in current law.

“(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A)(i), in the case of a weapon with more than 1 part that provides the housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate 1 or more fire control components, each such part shall be considered a frame or receiver, unless the Attorney General has provided otherwise by regulation with respect to the specific make and model of weapon on or before January 1, 2022.

Both upper and lower are each a receiver. Brilliant! Coupled with one-gun-a-month limits, this would prevent you buying a complete AR.

This next bit confuses me. Or maybe it’s Kelly who is confused. Or she’s simply doing a litte housekeeping on US Code.

SEC. 4. REPEAL OF TEMPORARY BRADY PROVISION.

Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking subsection (s).

18 U.S. Code § 922(s) is a bit convoluted, but basically it’s the old 5 day handgun waiting period provision; a provision that expired many years ago.

Moving on…

SEC. 5. PHYSICAL SECURITY OF DEALER PREMISES.

This is a collection of physical (safes, bars, reinforced wall, vehicle barricades) and surveillance (lots of cameras, semi-permanent video storage) intended to make running a gun store financially prohibitive. Again.

And because no FFL would ever consider keeping track of his inventory…

SEC. 6. BUSINESS INVENTORY FIREARMS.

Now they would. Apparently Kelly believes in her tiny, shriveled, black heart that dealers have no idea what they’ve got, and don’t care if guns get stolen.

Section 7 gets really nasty.

(b) Records Databases.—Section 923(g) of such title is further amended by adding at the end the following:

“(9) (A) Within 3 years after the date of enactment of this paragraph, the National Tracing Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shall establish and maintain electronic, searchable databases of all records regarding the importation, production, shipment, receipt, sale, or other disposition of firearms required to be submitted by licensees to the Attorney General under this chapter.

You read that correctly. That mandates a searchable database of all firearm transfers. And yes, that includes individual 4473s.

Full gun and gun owner registration.

In Section 9, we have a new requirement for multiple firearm sales; expanded from handguns to… basically eveything. And she slipped in another “high capacity” magazine definition: more than tens rounds, or theoretically modifiable to hold more than tens rounds. There are no exceptions for .22s or fixed internal magazines like tubes.

Here’s another FFL harassment measure.

Sec. 10 “(4) WARNINGS TO PURCHASERS.—All licensed dealers operating a physical retail location shall post conspicuously within the licensed premises all warnings required to be provided to firearms purchasers under applicable State and local law. The Attorney General shall develop materials regarding suicide prevention, securing firearms from loss, theft, or access by a minor or prohibited person, and straw purchasing, and provide the materials to licensed dealers who shall disseminate the materials on transfer of a firearm to a person not licensed under this chapter.”.

By the time they prominently post all that, there’ll be no room for commercial displays.

SEC. 11. INSPECTIONS is a mess. Essentially — and piecemeal — it mandates FFL inspections at least annually. It could be more often, with no limits. Monthly? Weekly? No wonder the Biden administration wants a $1.7 billion increase in the ATF budget.

Or maybe there won’t be that many FFLs to inspect after all. SEC. 12. AUTHORITY WITH REGARDS TO LICENSE ISSUANCE AND RENEWAL makes FFLs explicitly may-issue.

For those who still manage to get a license, fees would double (Sec. 13).

Read on: It’s got new employee background checks, loss of FFL protections, restrictions on appeals… If you can think of some way to screw dealers, it’s probably there.

The good news is that GovTrack gives this bill a mere 2% chance of passing. Depending on Dim leadership IQs, that may even be — for Dims — optimistic. The midterms are coming, and passage of this bill would likely require election fraud that leaves 2020 in the dust, if Dims expect to win any election. Worst case — for them — is how many abruptly vacant seats would suddenly be up for grabs, due to hordes of irate constituents.

The bad news is that, while this package won’t pass, we will see every individual provision coming back like whack-a-mole.