Comment on FR Doc # 2026-08919
Joe WilsonOpposeIndividual
Summary: A private firearm collector opposes the proposed rule because it fails to fully rescind the previous "engaged in business" framework. The commenter argues that the rule still allows for the criminalization of personal collection activities and requests a new rule that strictly follows federal statutory language.
I oppose this proposed rule because it does not rescind the Biden "engaged in business" framework in its entirety. I have been a firearm collector for over 40 years, buying and selling firearms for or from my collection. I have never been a dealer nor acted as one. I urge the ATF to: (1) rescind all retained sections of the 2024 Biden rule, including any provisions allowing routine personal collection activities to be used as evidence of unlicensed dealing; (2) eliminate the assertion that intent alone is sufficient to establish unlicensed dealing, a theory the Texas court rejected; (3) issue a new rule that follows the plain statutory language of federal law and the limits Congress imposed; and (4) clearly reject all legal theories already vacated by federal courts. A rule that survives in fragments still threatens the same law-abiding Americans it targeted from the start.