Comment on FR Doc # 2026-08919
Dan NoakesSupportIndividual
Summary: An individual commenter supports the general purpose of the proposed rule to reduce infringements on the right to keep and bear arms but urges the ATF to further refine it by rescinding specific provisions of the 2024 Biden rule and adhering strictly to statutory language.
Although there are some flaws in the proposed rule, I am generally in favor of the purpose of the changes, which reduces an infringement on American Citizens' God-given right to keep and bear arms. Regarding the flaws, I urge 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. RIN 1140-AB01.