Border Gun-Tracking Fought by Group Near Newtown Shootings
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A firearms group based three miles from the school where 20 first-graders were massacred asked a federal appeals court to block U.S. efforts to track sales of military-style assault weapons in states bordering Mexico.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation Inc. and two gun dealers argued that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives doesn’t have legal authority to require about 8,500 firearms dealers in Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona to report multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles to help trace guns used by Mexican drug gangs.