Sentences with phrase «federally licensed dealer»

Two law enforcement officials told ABC News that the AR - 15 was legally purchased by Cruz within the past year from a federally licensed dealer.

Current law requires background checks only for guns purchased from a federally licensed dealer.

If the firearm were considered to have been «delivered» to the corporation, does this mean that anyone between the ages of 18 and 21 who is not prohibited from possessing a handgun can purchase a handgun (for a corporation) from a federally licensed dealer when acting as an officer of said corporation?

The law requires anyone who wants to buy a gun to make the sale through a federally licensed dealer.

NICS doesn't reflect the exact number of firearms sold in the U.S. — it doesn't account for people purchasing multiple guns at one time, gun sales that don't involve a federally licensed dealer, or buyers who don't pass background checks.

Federally licensed dealers can not sell firearms without running a background check of the prospective buyer.

Not exact matches

People purchasing guns from federally licensed firearms dealers must undergo background checks, and those transactions can be blocked if they fall into any of 10 categories.

Currently, only federally licensed gun dealers need to conduct background checks before making sales, and sales between family members, friends, and neighbors go unchecked — including online or at gun shows.

Mom - and - pop shops make up a sizable percentage of the 56,000 federally licensed firearms dealers that the A.T.F. said were in business late last year.

The 1968 Gun Control Act gave the ATF authority to regulate federally licensed gun dealers.

On October 25, 2012, the Court of Appeals held in that case that the United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under age 21, in a similar suit brought by the National Rifle Association.

Levine and McKnight used the number of background checks reported to the government by federally licensed gun dealers as a proxy for gun sales.

The laundry list of those who felt these meager restrictions would put breeders out of business included the American Kennel Club, the American Canine Association, the American Pet Registry, the Sporting Dog Alliance and Oklahoma Pet Professionals, an organization of federally licensed dog dealers that would seemingly benefit from regulations based on the standards they already meet.