Notes from the Resistance
Three Rules enacted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were thwarted by court orders in recent weeks. [More]
Still to be determined: Will “laws” trump rights?
These aren’t my words. These are theirs:
What am I saying, that bump stocks weren’t used?
Don’t kill the messenger, I’m just posting what ATF has said.
No Charges in Deadly ATF Arkansas Home Raid [More]
Did anyone seriously think there would be?
Those whose Constitutional mandate is to not infringe on it executed a citizen for exercising his right. Their pretext, that some of his sales allegedly went to “prohibited persons,” is a fraudulent excuse because there is no delegated power authorizing the whole concept.
There’s only one way to address that problem…
57 F. 4th 447, affirmed. [More]
Bump Stocks Now Legal Again As Supreme Court Strikes Down Gun Device Ban
Looks like ATF will have to surrender my bump stock back to me when I come to confiscate it from them.
UPDATE
Herschel points out a concern with “Alito’s “Machinegun Sammy’s” response.
I agree. Congress has no Constitutional authority to “act,” either.
Judge Reed O’Connor Vacates ATF Pistol Brace Rule [More]
Herschel has the links.
UPDATE
Now I’ve got to go get a better one than this:
Injunction granted against ATF’s ‘firearms dealer’ rule for 4 states, 4 groups … The injunction applies to residents of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Utah along with members of Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation, Tennessee Firearms Association and Virginia Citizens Defense League. [More]
Yo, Texas gun owners: The new infringements were brought to you in part by Tony Gonzales, and a number of you couldn’t be bothered to do anything about that.
[Via Jess]
“We’re here to talk about a roughly one-inch piece of plastic. It looks innocuous enough, a little like a LEGO or a k’nex block. But this one-inch piece of plastic is killing people,” said Leigha Simonton, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas. “Machine gun conversion devices can turn Second Amendment-protected firearms into illegal weapons of war, and petty criminals into brutal killers. We cannot have our streets turned into war zones.” [More]
So the federal government has the authority to ban a one-inch piece of plastic– just like the Founders intended. And it’s killing people… does this broad ever listen to herself?
What the hell does Simpleton think “Second Amendment-protected firearms” were intended to be?
[Via Dan Gifford]
Attorney General Delivers Remarks at ATF’s Third Annual Chiefs of Police Executive Forum on Crime Guns … First: our work is far from over. Progress is only progress. Our work is not done until all Americans feel safe in their communities. [More]
Boy, talk about slopping the hogs…
What have we learned about “progress“? And “feelings“?
Speaking of which, I don’t feel safe knowing these official swineherds can dispatch their JBTs out to flashbang my house at 3 a.m. if they think I have arms reserved for “Only Ones,” and execute any family member who so much as twitches…
[Via Antigone]
Crime gun intelligence centers — or CGICs — use cutting-edge technology to solve and prevent crimes — technology that traces firearms from crime scenes; that links ballistics evidence and connects shootings; and that identifies the gun traffickers and straw purchasers arming gang members and other violent criminals. [More]
In other words, if you asked her right there how many guns retrieved from crime scenes implicated the original purchaser as the trigger puller, you’d get a Jackie Gleason response, and the rest is to try and blame high-volume outlets like Bass Pro Shops and Cabellas for deep pockets PLCAA end run extortion attempts.
Meanwhile, the real problem, Democrat policies “cultivating” constituents who can’t be trusted with a gun, not only isn’t addressed, it can’t even be talked about.
[Via Antigone]
There were two major admissions Fincher would have to make if he took the plea. The first required he confess to selling firearms and ammunition without a Federal Firearm License, even though he had a valid FFL during the dates specified. [More]
It doesn’t matter. Surrender or be destroyed.
It’s the ATF way. As for “Why?”
To cow everyone else into submission. And because they can.
[Via Jess]
Hunter Biden loses last-minute appeal to dismiss gun charges [More]
Any doubts if this were you or me we’d already have our place in genpop?
Meanwhile, DOJ tells me they’ve found some documents, although why they just can’t cite where they presume to get their authority from is beyond me, so I smell more go-through-the-motions stalling.
And I just had an idea. I want to run it by my advisors first.
[Via Jess]
Dettelbach Dances Around Oversight Questions in Hearing Into ATF’s Killing of Bryan Malinowski [More]
Well, yeah. Answering directly, truthfully, and completely would not be a good look.
Although, truthfully, if Republicans, when in power, didn’t prosecute the JBTs over hundreds of dead Mexicans, what are the chances, if they don’t blow it in November, that they’ll strap ’em on over one airport administrator?
[Via Michael G]
Hundreds of Fast and Furious firearms have previously been traced to other shootings in Mexico. The new leak indicates hundreds more are still being found. [More]
So change the subject by trying to blame major gun retailers in an attempt to do the same thing the original plot tried to do: Enact more infringements.
I may do more on this.
[Via several of you]
It’s a game Republicans play all the time, stirring up hope when they know they won’t have to make good on things and nothing will change. [More]
Much ado about nothing…
“I’ve played law enforcement for 30 years. It’s just so different.” [More]
So assuming celebrities possess the wisdom, authority and virtues of the characters they play, and forming political opinions accordingly, is a mistake?
As for the dog-shooting incident, that clear violation of Instacart policy may open the door to another, more lucrative career.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and other Senate Republicans recently introduced legislation that would abolish transfer taxes on firearms regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA). [More]
It’s the Hughes Amendment limiting the supply that makes them so expensive.
Prognosis 0% chance of being enacted
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a reply brief with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its challenge of the “Final Rule” issued by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives regarding arm braces for pistols. [More]
In truth, we have an absolute right to keep and bear short-barreled rifles as well, and the damn tyrants denying them to us know it.
