Shooting Down the ATF

Dealers get reprieve -- for now -- from proposed reporting requirement. A last-minute maneuvers by Oklahoma Democrat, U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, has foiled the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' attempt to demand gun dealers in four Southwestern states report sales involving multiple semi-automatic rifles. For now. Boren's attached an amendment blocking the ATF's proposed reporting requirement to a bill to fund the government for the remainder of the current fiscal year. The bill -- with Boren's amendment -- passed by a vote of 277-149 on Feb. 18. Boren said his amendment prevents the ATF from circumventing the will...