Trump’s ATF just released a draft of the new Form 4473 — the background check form every gun buyer fills out at a dealer — and the internet is focused on the wrong part.
Everyone is arguing about whether the “non-binary” box is gone.
But the bigger story is what else changed.
The new draft reportedly cuts the form from seven pages to four, rewrites the confusing straw purchase question so regular people understand that buying a firearm as a lawful gift is legal, updates the marijuana question, and adds language that could allow certain same-state firearm transfers to be shipped directly to the buyer’s door through an FFL process.
That is not just paperwork.
That is a shift away from the Biden-era ATF’s paperwork trap approach, where confusing questions, redundant boxes, and tiny mistakes could become the basis for targeting gun buyers and revoking FFLs.
The old 4473 felt like a soft entrapment quiz.
This new draft is not perfect, but it moves in the right direction: fewer pages, clearer questions, and a form that better reflects what the law actually says instead of what bureaucrats wish the law said.
Gun owners need to pay attention to this one.
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