Len Savage emailed Director Cekada:
Original post: ATF Statement in Rare Breed Trigger Litigation Raises Questions on Legal Authority
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ATF Statement in Rare Breed Trigger Litigation Raises Questions on Legal Authority
“Please show me anywhere in the U.S.C. or C.F.R. that rate of fire is regulated in any way? Only method of fire is regulated. If it fires more than once per function of the trigger it’s highly regulated. If not, there is NO regulation.” [More]
Just because they act like they have the power to do something doesn’t mean they actually do.
And Yet Once Again Unto the Breach
“Investigation targets”…?
While we’re told it’s “a standalone system,” that last bit makes me wonder if I was far off on my speculation on terror watchlists, and specifically that finding they’re on one may be the tip-off that they’ve been made and to get out of Dodge…
[Via Len Savage]
Lawgivers’ Dilemma
Much Ado About…What, Exactly?
The NFA Ruling That Changes Everything—And Changes Nothing… Every advance we have made toward restoring the Second Amendment has been within a framework that the government built and can rebuild. [More]
That, and where’s the “guidance” on home-builds, private transfers, gun trusts, SOTs, interstate travel, sentence enhancements…?
Yeah, I know, I know, would I rather have Kamala…?
Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is responding to a cybersecurity incident affecting a standalone system. [More]
A “major incident”…? Ransomware…??
Kinda makes you want to get your name and what you’ve got into their system, doesn’t it? No…?
Toy Story
Firearm ‘Expert’ Who Testified a Toy was a Machinegun Still Working for ATF [More]
At first glance I thought Lee Williams was talking about ol’ Kelvin “Insert-Magazine-Backwards” Crenshaw (Note now-discontinued Examiner links go to Internet Archive, so expect slow loading).
It also reminds me of the artifical contortions the JBTs go through to entrap Americans out of their unalienable rights on invented technicalities, like we’re gong to use duct tape, ties, and chains to workaround unconstitutional infringements.
And it reminds me of what the evil bastards did to David Olofson.
“Reforms” and gushing from some “gun rights leaders” notwithstanding, never forget, the Framers would have considered ATF and everything it stands for an abomination. Less aggressive cancer is still cancer.
CMP Converted M14 Sales Upends ATF’s Once a Machine Gun Rule
That the situation is confusing is hardly surprising. ATF cognitive dissonance and contradictory rules could be considered the rule rather than the exception without hyperbole. And in this case, the position the Bureau had previously established is clear… [More]
Just what (and who) does “special authorization” authorize?
Cutting Out the Middleman
The Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced guilty verdicts for Chandler Britain Bradford, a New Braunfels man who was charged with smuggling thousands of firearms and firearm parts from the United States to Mexico. [More]
I guess they will brook no competition.
[Via GKD]
Landru, Guide Us!
Tell Congress: Force ATF To Provide Guidance! All over the country, gun shops have been advising their customers that they’re awaiting guidance from ATF on how to go about transferring an unregistered short barreled firearm or suppressor. [More]
In my case, it’s a waste of time.
Do it if it’s not a waste of yours.
Related UPDATE
Per Guns & Gadgets:
New reporting indicates ATF headquarters has instructed local field offices not to independently interpret the NFA injunction, while DOJ and ATF have allowed the plaintiffs’ requested August 21 deadline for implementation answers to pass without a public response.
[Via Jess]
Don’t Let the Door Hit Ya
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is looking to leave his role at the Pentagon around the end of 2026 following a months-long turf war with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former White House official and another source familiar with the discussions told The Hill on Friday. [More]
Good.
If he’s sleeping with one enemy, who’s to say he hasn’t been sleeping with another, NSSF’s obsequious fawning notwithstanding?
[Via JC]
A Common Mistake
ATF’s newly updated registry shows 6,654,209 suppressors, more than 1.2 million short-barreled rifles, and over 8.1 million registered items across four major NFA categories. In this video, we examine how the government’s own numbers strengthen the “common use” argument under Heller, Caetano, and Bruen—and further undermine the constitutional foundation of the National Firearms Act. [Watch]
Yeah, well, don’t get too comfortable with “common use” being the cutoff for protected arms.
[Via Jess]
DOJ Launches New Process for Gun Rights Restoration
With all the high-fiving going on in the gun community over this announcement, keeping things in perspective is needed to temper the enthusiasm and maintain progress on advancing the right to keep and bear arms. [More]
The continuation of this program is as secure as the outcome in the upcoming elections.
And the question just struck me: How do you answer Section B.21.d. on the 4473? If the form needs to be modified, that’s another drawn-out rule change.
Framing the Terms
A judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled in favor of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Defense Distributed in Defense Distributed v. Blanche (formerly VanDerStok v. Bondi), holding the ATF’s “Frame or Receiver” Rule, which expanded the definition of a “firearm,” unconstitutional on both Second Amendment and due process grounds. [More]
Making DIYers great again…
The Problem States
Several states currently have laws that require some form of approval from the Federal government under the current National Firearms Act (NFA). These states will have to pass new legislation to make suppressor ownership legal under the laws should deregulation proceed. If things progress quickly, you may not be able to buy a suppressor in these states. [More]
How’s your state doing?
I see suicidal Ohio Republicans have their thumbs up their hindquarters.
Free at Last, Free at La… uh… What?
Never Say Never Again
Federal Judge Deals Final Death Blow to ATF’s ‘Engaged in the Business’ Rule [More]
It can’t be appealed? If not by this DOJ then by one reporting to a future Democrat administration? And what about future legislation?
Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty, We’re Free at Last!
Just like that? You’re sure? No pre-conditions or memberships needed? FFLs are all sure of what they need to do? Got all those questions for DOJ answered?
I’d hate to think people who had nothing to do with it and don’t know what they’re talking about are spreading bad legal advice.
And when are you going to do something about oath-breaking Republican power players like Ben Albritton?
Today’s Five-Minute Activism
I figure that’s how long it will take to read all this and then seconds to do what it asks.
While he appreciates all the support his son’s case has drawn—there are hundreds of videos and stories chronicled on his “Freedom for Tate” website—Tate remains is prison. To date, there has been no formal move to secure his release—despite the kind words of more than a few elected officials. [More]
Look at what just happened with NFA as a result of massive numbers of gun owners making noise that could not be ignored with midterms coming up.
Advocacy media played a huge part in that.
As just a cursory look shows us:
If a million gun owners simply reposted a “tweet” (or whatever the hell you call them these days) saying “FREEDOM FOR TATE” that shared this link and copied Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon and Donald Trump, I guarantee you it would get their attention.
So… Destructive Devices are Next…?
The Marque and Reprisal Clause as Textual Proof of Private Heavy-Arms Ownership at the Founding [More]
Think how wrong you have to be for even Politifact to contradict you.
[Via Michael G]