As long as we’re talking non-binary, I feel like the little girl in the Shake ‘N Bake commercial:
Of course, the better solution would be NO 4473s, but none of our “gun rights leaders” want to talk about BIDS…
[Via WiscoDave]
Category: ATF
Who Couldn’t See That Coming?
I do not understand why these lawyers are not being babysat by the Second Amendment unit of the Department of Justice because I cannot believe that people like Harmeet Dhillon would have signed off on the brief that was just filed by the Department of Justice in the Chris Brown versus BATF case… [Watch]
I understand why. I can believe it.
I don’t blame embedded subversives any more than the frog should blame the scorpion. I blame those they report to who have let them stay on and get away with it.
[Via Jess]
Speaking of Text, History, and Tradition
The Trump administration wants to let you easily buy and ship firearms straight to your front porch. [More]
You mean like back in the days before gun free zones and mass shootings?
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Missing the Barn
The proposal we’re discussing was published in the Federal Register by the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Its purpose is to revise the regulatory definitions of two phrases that have existed in federal firearms law for decades, “adjudicated as a mental defective” and “committed to a mental institution…” [Watch]
I guess everbody’ll keep making it about guns as long as people want to keep ignoring the obvious…
[Via Jess]
What Are Friends For?
GOA Warns ATF’s Gun Dealer Rule Rollback Still Leaves Gun Owners Exposed [More]
But…but…but BFF Cekada…
He needs to revisit five guys, and I don’t mean the burger joint.
Voice Vote
“ATF has subsequently received significant adverse comments on this direct final rule and is therefore withdrawing the rule.” [More]
So… whoever’s loudest wins?
The Devil in the Details
ATF Director Says Violent Criminals Are Agency’s Priority, Not Lawful Gun Owners [Watch]
Yeah, about that:
We condemn any program that involves enforcing unconstitutional “laws”, even if such “laws” are enforced only against violent criminals. Unconstitutional “laws” are illegal, harmful to public safety, tyrannical, and are inevitably enforced against ordinary, non-criminal citizens.
As for the laws they break that aren’t unconstitutional, none of those are within the purview of ATF.
Don’t Die for a Data Lie
Dramatics aside, it’s a known fact that any interactions with law enforcement, no matter how mundane, escalate the chances of a negative and potentially life-threatening outcome. Armed agents of the State with qualified immunity, taking someone by surprise over what is likely to be a bookkeeping error? [More]
So “false positives” have the potential to be much more than inconvenient delays?
At least it’s bipartisan!
We’re the Only Ones Surrender-Facilitating Enough
We’re the Only Ones Brooking No Competition Enough
On Again/Off Again
“The Trump Administration is fighting as hard as it can to continue violating the Second Amendment rights of millions of Americans. Even though the Fifth Circuit already held that these bans are unconstitutional, the government is trying to limit the decision’s reach so it can keep disarming peaceable adults across the country. This is how the United States government celebrates 250 years of American independence—by acting like the tyrants we defeated. [More]
Just after getting an “attagirl.”
I’m telling ya: Bipolar.
ATF Director Robert Cekada Gets Softball Treatment on Pistol Braces from Colion Noir
Many “conservatives” revere any Trump administration policy as if Moses himself had carried it down from Mount Sinai. [More]
If I go by my own experience, Darwin can expect angry missives from MAGA über alles types demanding to know if he would rather have Kamala and canceling subscriptions in 3…2..1…
Laying Down the Law
2026 Firearms and Ammunition Compliance Conference – Co Hosted with FRAC [More]
900 bucks? Too rich for my blood. Besides, anybody see any 2A advocates among the keynote speakers?
Who thinks salvation will come from the industry?
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
ATF Director: Adamiak’s sentence “excessive” [More]
As previously noted, he’s missing the point.
But what I want to focus on is this business of ATF Firearm Enforcement Officer Jeffrey Bodell spreading falsehoods under oath to affect trial outcomes, and how is that anything but prejudicial perjury? Everybody realizes ATF has been getting away with that for years right?
But don’t take my word for it:
Things Sure are Different Now
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do
Speak for Yourself
Tsunami Warning
What’s in the Trump administration’s ‘tsunami’ of gun deregulation [More]
Oh, no! Infringing on infringements! Head for higher ground!
Because we all know how ATF rules affect predator decision-making.
“Real reporter” Avery Lotz carries the prohibitionists’ water for them.
She probably also believes repeating talking points can’t ultimately be done a lot cheaper by AI.
[Via Michael G]
ATF Director Cekada’s Concern for Adamiak Misses Larger Point
“Cekada promised neither he nor the ATF will be ‘offended by the outcome of the courts,’ because he wants to make sure that Adamiak was ‘appropriately sentenced’,” Williams recounted. That’s mighty big of him. However, Second Amendment advocates should be offended by such a presumptuous response. [More]
Focusing on the punishment being too harsh ignores the intolerable injustice of there being any punishment at all.