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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Thursday April 11th, 2024. This is the

exit.

Today a look at new rules for gun sales, plus complaints around FAFSA continue, and the

Masters begins.

The Biden administration is taking steps this week centered on new rules for unlicensed firearms

dealers. I spoke with USA Today, investigative reporter Nick Penzenstadler to learn more.

Nick, thanks for hopping on the excerpt today.

Yeah, happy to be here.

So Nick, what is the Biden administration doing

to crack down on unlicensed firearm dealers?

Yeah, this is the culmination of kind of a years long process.

In 2022, there was the bipartisan Safer Communities Act that outlined a few key rules aimed at

enforcing what's already on the books and trying to get more people into this

background check system when they buy guns. So this is the key piece where you

have unlicensed gun sellers so think about people at gun shows who routinely sell guns that don't have a license.

So therefore they're not putting people through the background check system.

This is trying to clarify that in those scenarios you have to

have to have a license and have to do background checks.

Yeah, so what criteria exactly are officials using to decide which sellers are really

engaged in business and therefore need to perform background checks on sales.

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