Father Of Parkland Taking Pictures Sufferer Says Biden’s New Gun Proposal Brings ‘tremendous Hope’

The daddy of a sufferer of the mass taking pictures at Marjory Stoneman-Douglas Excessive College in Parkland, Fla. in 2018 praised the Biden administration for its latest announcement of a proposed new rule on firearms Friday.

“My initial reaction is what a tremendous hope,” Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was killed within the taking pictures, stated on MSNBC. “President Biden keeps leading to do something about gun violence.”

The administration’s proposed new rule goals to make clear the definition of being “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms and thus who’s required to be licensed. It might additionally implement new necessities for background checks and descriptions what standards folks must meet —equivalent to promoting any variety of firearms or repetitively providing on the market a number of firearms of the identical mark or mannequin, or firearms which are of their authentic packaging. 

If folks have a gun they not want and wish to promote it to a member of the family, they don’t want a license to promote it, in response to the rule. If somebody buys and sells relics or “collectible” private firearms as a pastime, additionally they don’t want a license. 

The clarification comes after an govt order by Biden in March directed Legal professional Common Merrick Garland to make sure gun sellers “who do not realize they are required to run background checks under existing law, or who are willfully violating existing law,” turn out to be compliant with background verify necessities.

Biden referred to as on Republican lawmakers in July to “come to the table” on gun reforms after a string of shootings main as much as Independence Day. 

“Today, Jill and I grieve for those who have lost their lives and, as our nation celebrates Independence Day, we pray for the day when our communities will be free from gun violence,” Biden wrote in a press release.

The president’s latest proposal additionally comes within the wake of two distinguished acts of gun violence within the final week, one taking pictures by a racist gunman that killed three in Jacksonville, Fla. and one other that left a professor lifeless on the campus of College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.