With his announcement that the Justice Department will seek to tighten up the definitions of who counts as a gun dealer and must then conduct mandated background checks on potential customers, President Joe Biden is taking another small step in the direction of the broad reimagining of which people get guns and how in the United States.
The changes build on last year’s welcome but limited gun law following the Uvalde school shooting, and could bring us closer to a more than reasonable requirement for universal background checks, instead of letting some sellers hide behind…
