U.S. Proposes Emergency Regulation Requiring Gun Dealers to Report Bulk Sales

On December 17, 2010, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a notice of an emergency regulation that will require certain gun dealers along the southwestern border to report bulk sales of assault as early as January 2011. The proposed regulation is an effort of the U.S. government to respond to the urgent requests of the Mexican government, including President Felipe Calderon’s address to the joint session of the U.S. Congress on May 20, 2010, and talks by Mexico’s attorney general, Eduardo Medina-Mora. The Mexican government are constantly outgunned by the cartels, whose acres increasingly use sophisticated military technology, such as night-vision goggles and scopes, body armor, and armored vehicles. The weaponry, such as large-caliber sniper rifles, have been traced to gun stores in the U.S...(more)...