Category: ATF

The Only Thing ‘Rogue’ is the Government

However, the ATF points out that the actual reason for the revocations may include but are “not limited to, the above list.” That is a massive understatement, since the real reasons for the majority of recent FFL revocations are far less serious. They are, in fact, minor clerical errors, which the ATF now considers willful violations of its self-written rules rather than simple mistakes, because of its zero-tolerance policy that Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in June 2021. [More]

Shades of Red’s Trading Post (five full pages or blog posts for those who want to see what it took for just one gun shop to prevail)…

I’m remembering the time a U.S. Marshal tried to scare me away from covering that.

Compare and Contrast

Mr. Holden had to complete ATF Form 4473 to purchase the firearm. ATF Form 4473 asks whether the purchaser is under indictment and Mr. Holden answered no. [More]

Now try:

Mr. Biden had to complete ATF Form 4473 to purchase the firearm. ATF Form 4473 asks whether the purchaser is an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance and Mr. Biden answered no.

It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

[Via Herschel]

Call Me Erresponsible…

ATF is proud of our partnership with @NSSF to irradicate straw purchasing activities in the St. Louis area through education using the “Don’t Lie” campaign. #DontLieForTheOtherGuy [More]

Hiring the best and the brightest, are we? Hey, if we expect them to irrase irroneous tweets, their whole account will have to go.

And, of course, NSSF‘s “compromise“ is not enough.

We’re (Joseph T. Davis) the Only Ones Sealing Enough

A special agent with the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has decided to enter a plea deal in a Cochise County court to resolve an allegation he engaged in nonconsensual sexual contact with a bartender while off-duty at a Bisbee hotel in 2020. But first, Joseph T. Davis wants most of the case documents sealed from the public, purportedly due to potential career and safety issues. [More]

Set loose the Streisand Effect!

[Via WiscoDave]

UPDATE

You complain, we listen. Received via email:

Normal American
You
David:

I was distressed and disturbed to read your post about the ATF agent who wanted his court documents sealed, especially when I read his full name in the body of your post.

This is inappropriate. The correct approach is to put his full name in the headline of the post, which carries with it more SEO weight.

I hope you fix this unfortunate oversight.

NA

There Goes the Narrative

ATF had installed undercover agents in a house across the street from the Davidians, to observe them. This is the agents’ report for Feb. 19, nine days before the ATF raid and initial gunfight, describing what they did that day. They went shooting. With David Koresh. [More]

David Hardy’s FOIA has uncovered a bit of inconvenient history the DSM will be sure to ignore.

Repelling the First Wave

“After we questioned their motives and informed them of Oversight and Republican controlled Appropriations, they all left,” Greene added. “Protect the Second Amendment and the law abiding businesses. [More]

It feels like they were looking for a prize. Expect them to be back with a vengeance when she’s not there. And expect adverse action findings to “justify” their large presence.

I’m actually surprised they didn’t arrest her for obstruction. General counsel must have told them the optics weren’t right… yet.

Government Has Known from the Start There is a Right to Own Machineguns

“You see, if we made a statute absolutely forbidding any human being to have a machine gun, you might say there is some constitutional question involved.” [More]

Now, what are all those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” in Congress going to do about it?

Hanging Separately

Mr. King advised that I was wasting my time looking for New York Attorney and that the NYSRPA and the NRA would not help legally. The call did not end well when I pressed Mr. King about those in our ranks turning customer data over to the government and law-enforcement agencies… hung up on me? I will address that conversation in a separate video post. [More]

I wonder how many members had and will have data compromised.

[Via Jess]

Concentrated Stupid: Dilute Before Using

Sheila Jackson Lee Says Stabilizer Braces Turn Firearms Into Killing Machines While Praising The ATF [Watch]

“As far back as 1886…”?

Look, if they want to limit themselves to a chemist and microscopist to analyze oleomargarine, I’ll shut up and go away.

[Via Jess]

Terror Group Issues Kidnapping/Death Threats Against Bill of Rights Practitioners

I’d argue my headline is more accurate. [More]

In April 2022, the Department of Justice announced the “Frame or Receiver” final rule that modernizes the definition of a firearm.

Read “illegally changes.”

Some suppliers of partially complete frames or receivers appear to be attempting to willfully circumvent the rule…

We’re coming for you. And your customers. Prepare for the J6 and/or Waco treatment.

It may also include internet links to templates, jigs, molds, equipment, tools or other materials that enable ready completion or assembly of the unfinished frame or receiver into a firearm.

Why would we worry about the First Amendment now that we’ve neutralized the Second?

Anyone who observes suspected violations of the GCA or ATF’s implementing regulations may report them to ATF at https://www.atf.gov/atf-tips.

“¡En cada barrio, Revolución!“

I must remember to thank Rob Portman for his Dettelbach confirmation vote!

Out of Joint

The Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chairman Pat Fallon (R-Texas) and the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Chairman Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) will hold a joint hearing examining the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) actions aimed at curtailing the ability of lawful gun owners to exercise their Second Amendment rights. [More]

The best they can come up with for “our side” is Amy Swearer…?

[Via Jess]

JBTs Gonna JBT

The federal government has been using Americans’ income and gun purchases to conduct warrantless tracking and deny Second Amendment rights. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gave salary estimates to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the reason to have people’s firearms purchases monitored. [More]

So does that mean IRS is giving them the income data?

[Via bondmen]

Baby Needs a New Pair of Jackboots

Biden’s budget proposal contains $1.9 billion for the ATF. This is a 13.6 percent increase over 2022 and half a billion dollars more than the agency’s fiscal 2020 budget. If passed as written, Biden’s budget would expand the ATF by 35.7 percent—an overall growth of more than 50 percent since the Obama administration. [More]

Don’t your oppressors deserve the very best?

[Via bondmen]

We’re the Only Ones Showing Up in Force Enough

Video from the family’s surveillance camera shows an unmarked police car pull up, and a Lorain police officer and a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent jump out and try to speak with the boys. [More]

ATF? And 12 in all show up? Over “jaywalking”?

And nice “We the People” tat.

Nice way these “sworn officers” talk to citizens. I see the Lorain PD limits who can comment on their posts so citizens can’t talk back.

And remember: Back the Blue!

[Via bondmen]

A Good First Step

I have never given up hope that the collector’s item I got so I’d have standing will one day be surrendered back to me by ATF.

I wonder if SCOTUS will forever punt, and what the implications will be for pistol braces, forced reset triggers, and the like.

[Via WiscoDave]

Much Ado About What, Exactly?

Reps. Jordan, Massie demand ATF director testify before House Judiciary Committee [More]

Sure, it’ll be nice to point out all his inconsistencies in the echo chamber on a relatively obscure issue most Americans don’t care about, but if Republicans couldn’t do anything about it when they had the majority and Eric Holder told them to go F*** themselves, what makes them think they will be able to do anything about it with the Dems in the majority?

The Look at Me I’m On Your Side Act

Rep. Michael Cloud (R-TX) reintroduced a bill which would require the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to destroy firearm purchase records in their database. [More]

“Reintroduced”?

What are the chances of it passing this time? Does Michael Cloud know that?

The guy’s got a pretty good record. Hollow patronizing does not improve it.

[Via bondmen]

I Think They Call What’s Happening Here ‘Ratioing’

Today, we remember and honor the life and service of Special Agents Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeehan, Robert Williams and Steven Willis, who were killed attempting to execute warrants at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993. [More]

To put it mildly, comments are not supportive.

[Via WiscoDave]

OK Up to a Point

Unelected ATF just made a new “law” that turns 40M law-abiding gun owners into felons for owning a pistol brace. Latest example of the bureaucratic state making laws undermining our freedom and democracy. This must stop. [Watch]

Fine and good, Tulsi. Well stated and much is correct, but”gun rights” proponents need to stop asserting Congress is the body that should be able to ban guns. There’s no delegated power that negates “shall not be infringed.”

And I still don’t trust you.

[Via bondmen]

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