The following 41 page proposed bill has been introduced by the Public Safety and Security Committee.
HB-6859: An Act Concerning the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection’s Recommendations Regarding Certain Evidence and Records, Firearm Information, Security Guards, Firearm Transfers and School Security Grants.
Summary: To implement various recommendations of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection concerning sexual assault evidence, records of cases of juvenile matters involving delinquency proceedings, information identifying seized or recovered firearms, security guards, firearm transfers and school security grants.
Raised Bill (doc)
This proposed bill makes several changes to the (Sec. 29-33) pistol and (Sec. 29-37a) long gun sales statutes along with some changes that are relevant for security guards.
Needs more review to understand exactly what the various changes actually means to the average Joe and or security guards.
It seems to me that parts of this bill seem to make private sales possible once again.
This bill does not appear to change the fact that a background check needs to be done for “private face to face” transfers. And currently SLFU mandates that background check request come from an FFL (apparently per an FBI directive).
Would it be too far fetched to think that SLFU might bring the background checks for face to face transfers onto the new portal? If the background check system is already done electronically, through FBI, there is an avenue for average Joe to be able to access the state’s system to do face to face transfers.
If we look at the order in which things happened, state moving to an online system, FFLs gaining access to it, stopping face to face transfers via the phone (even if it was already done online it bogged down the workers) and directing private transfers to FFLs (which had access to the system), it wouldn’t be completely out of the realm of possibility that now that they could give access to people to do their own via the SFLU portal if that is something they are actively building out.
Im just playing around with that idea, pure speculation without any evidence, I doubt the state would do that, im probably just crazy, but maybe… What do you think?
Such transfer document shall contain the name and address of the transferor and transferee, the date of sale, the caliber, make, model and manufacturer’s number and a general description of such pistol or revolver, emphasized textthe identification number of the transferor’s and transferee’s permit to carry pistols or revolvers, issued pursuant to subsection (b) of section 29-28, permit to sell firearms at retail, issued pursuant to subsection (a) of said section, or eligibility certificate for a pistol or revolver, issued pursuant to section 29-36f, if any, and the authorization number designated for the transfer by the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall perform the national instant criminal background check and make a reasonable effort to determine whether there is any reason that would prohibit such [applicant] transferee from possessing a pistol or revolver as provided in section 53a-217c.
It does mention "the transferor’s …permit to carry ", implying that a permit holder can be the seller of record, and that “the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall perform the national instant background check”, which sounds like a legal mandate.
Pretty much most of the changes to the long gun and hand gun sales statute in 6859 are technical word changes or bringing long gun sale language inline with pistol sale language.
Supposedly it was the FBI (who runs NICS) who mandated the background request check come from an FFL. It was (my wild guess) part of Biden’s admin’s zero tolerance or what ever they called it changes at ATF (and by extension the NICS system). There is a proposed bill this year, see below, that would mandate DESPP/SLFU obtain FFL, so they can run the background check. This would let us go back to the old method of the face to face seller calling SLFU rather than having to pay an FFL to make that call. Would they move such a request to the online portal? Who knows. The entire online portal system feels like a poorly thought out mess designed to frustrate people.
S.B. No. 371 AN ACT REQUIRING THE COMMISSIONER OF EMERGENCY SERVICES AND PUBLIC PROTECTION TO ACQUIRE A FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSE.
Proposed Bill [doc]