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They're doing this because the number of self-created guns recovered from crime scenes has increased significantly over the last five years. I made a video about it recently, if anyone's bored.
Calling it a 'crackdown' is a little silly though, and just the kind of overdramatic bullshit one would expect from American gun nuts.
It's two state-level laws that aren't even fully in force yet, and won't work anyway, thanks to US gun law being a patchwork of fifty different fiefdoms' opinions, many of which are unilaterally unenforced by local sheriffs on purpose anyway. Hell, guns are so absurdly legal in my state that they keep coming up with ways to make them extra-legal so that the gun lobby will keep the bribes flowing.
~~Thewhy~~ Then why haven't the famous "saturday night specials" closed all the hardware stores?
It's a mystery for sure...