This is correct. In addition all sales at gun show from a licensed FFL to a customer currently also require a background check. Currently the main two kinds of transfers that don't require federal background checks nationwide are private party sales and gifts. Eg. Selling your neighbor a shotgun or gifting your dad a hunting rifle. I believe these were both carved out exceptions as a result of the limitations on the Feds due to the commerce clause. Several states have tighter restrictions.

How long before our corrupt Supreme Court strikes this down?

They do.

I believe the framing is something like buying locally on armslist.com, where the buyer and seller agree to meet up face-to-face to make the sale. No mailing it.

Reading the article and a few others, this new regulation seems like election year posturing that doesn’t actually change much for the average person. The regulation is expanding who must register as an FFL from “making their livelihood from gun sales” to selling guns “predominantly to derive a profit”. Whatever that means. But it seems like it is specifically meant to exclude the occasional sale by a private person, which means that a private person happening to sell a gun at/near a gunshow or through armslist seems like they are still in the clear.

Where that line is will surely be hashed out in court, but it seems like the simple sale of a single gun from one person to another is unaffected.

That's putting it lightly.

The occasional private party sale from a "personal collection" isn't what this is designed to stop. It's intended to close the loopholes that required no background checks in certain transactions, which:

1. Allowed people to function like online dealers, buying and selling volumes of guns, but claiming they are selling from personal collections.

2. Allowed for the very common "gun shows," which are frequent and widespread, to be used by #1 to sell guns to people in person not just online but to large, interested, and gathered crowds of people. These things are basically pop-up malls for guns, with a mixture of legitimate firearm businesses running background checks and tables of guns from a "private collection."

3. It prevents the "fire-sale loophole," where gun stores, often ones that lose their license for other violations, close their business and liquidate their guns at steep discounts without background checks by claiming that the guns revert to private collection.

The purpose of this rule revision is to get rid of those loopholes, which is how the overwhelming majority of guns sold without background check happen.

The occasional sale between private parties from a personal collection, defined as a collection whose purpose is study, comparison, exhibition, or in pursuit of hobby like hunting and sport shooting isn't the issue here. That doesn't appear to be where most guns involved in crime that were purchased without a background check originate from.

Incremental progress is unsatisfying and better than nothing. And this one is a little satisfying so I'll take it.

I mean, it’s better than nothing, but still doesn’t do anything about the people outside the gun show with a trunk full of Glocks they’re selling for $100 over sticker price.

It makes it easier to prosecute them for not being private sales, so not nothing.

all the things you complain about are already illegal. it's not that things aren't enforced. it's that CRIMINALS DON'T FUCKING FOLLOW LAWS.

I've bought firearms online for years. I don't know how the loophole works and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

The Justice Department isn't stupid. The purchase of the vase is obviously incidental in the transaction.