Notes from the Resistance
Nice work if you can get it. The problem is, without a badge, you can’t, and therein lies the crux of police as “Only Ones.” [More]
Special exemptions make it easy to forget your place in the food chain.
State Department Publishes New Guidelines for Export Compliance Programs [and] ATF Revises the Form 4473 (5300.9) Firearms Transaction Record [More]
This should post to their “Alerts” page soon, and that’s the one you really ought to bookmark if you want expert analyses of industry legal and regulatory developments.
I joined Bill Frady yesterday to talk about the Secret Service/Hunter Biden affidavit and ATF wanting to destroy Gunwalker guns:
That ongoing legal actions require evidence to be preserved and that ATF, the agency that stonewalled investigations and retaliated against whistleblowers now seeks to be the agent of its destruction, is a good circumstantial indicator that its priority remains one of covering up. [More]
There can be no “reform.” These corrupt bastards will never back down unless they are forced to.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of Justice have sent the rule surrounding pistol stabilizing devices to the White House for Presidential review. [More]
Since we’re told we live under a system of consent of the governed, I’m sure the delegated authority for this is in here somewhere…
[Via Jess]
Yesterday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) notified us that it intends to destroy the firearms associated with the botched Operation Fast and Furious. [More]
I thought there was no statute of limitations on being accessories to murder.
This is the first time I can recall having a serious disagreement with Jim Jordan.
[Via Henry Bowman]
ATF agents would later say he’s innocent, but they still take his shit, and leave him with seizure receipts for just the serialized parts (receivers, suppressors, etc.) but not the rest of the gear (optics, parts, etc.)… Marcelo calls again two weeks later, ATF agent says right now he is innocent but threatens to press charges against him if he keeps “blowing up [their] phone” [More]
A “gun rights” group needs to look at this. If things are as represented, there’s no way he should have to fight this on his own.
[Via Jess]
Jordan says the ghost gun rule “goes well beyond the authority granted to the agency in any applicable federal statutes,” and expands the legal definition of a firearm beyond what Congress intended. A prior letter from Jordan to ATF declared the rule “appears to be a deliberate attempt to usurp the authority of Congress,” and said it unconstitutionally infringes “on American citizens’ fundamental Second Amendment rights and privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment.” [More]
He’s right about the agency lacking authority. What I’ve yet to see is where Congress can legitimately claim it.
And I don’t see too many on “our side” talking about that.
[Via Jess]
As a result of the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) of 2022, signed into law on June 25, 2022, the NICS Section has been working towards the implementation of an enhanced background check process for persons between the ages of 18-20. The enhancement provides the opportunity for additional outreach and research to be conducted regarding the existence of any juvenile adjudication information and/or mental health prohibition. As a result, transactions on persons between the ages of 18-20 will initially be delayed and the address of the individual will be collected so that the appropriate local and state entities may be contacted. The enhanced process will begin on November 14, 2022, for all transactions on persons under the age of 21 as previously described. Checks on persons under the age of 21 could be extended for a period up to ten business days. Therefore, it is possible for an FFL to be contacted with an updated Brady Transfer Date. As a temporary measure and until the NICS can be updated to provide this information electronically, NICS staff will be calling FFLs to advise of any change in the transfer date. In preparation for calls from NICS, you will be asked to verify your license number and code word. You may wish to have this information readily available for you and your staff. [More]
Meanwhile, don’t forget to register with Selective Service! And Nancy’s working on that voter roadblock…
[Via Doc]
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendants Merrick Garland, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; Steven Dettelbach, in his official capacity as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); the United States Department of Justice; and ATF hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from the Court’s Opinion & Order on Scope of Preliminary Injunction entered on October 1, 2022… [More]
Of course they’re not giving up on unconstitutionally claiming authority to impose frame or receiver infringements. They enjoy unlimited resources.
FPC has the entire case with filings and orders indexed for us.
[Via Jess]
ATF, Enforcer of Gun Laws, Lost ‘Thousands of Firearms, Firearm Parts’ to Thieves [More]
What would they do to an FFL who “lost” guns?
[Via Henry Bowman]
Sailor convicted for selling illegal machine guns in Virginia… As a master at arms, he served in the Navy’s law enforcement community… [More]
So he wasn’t “just” a sailor. He was a Naval “Only One.”
I wonder who the snitch is, and if the feds had something on him or if he decided things all on his own.
I also wonder if his lawyer knew about NFRTR “reliability” issues…?
[Via Hammer Down Outdoors]
BIDEN: “My legislation says there can be no more than eight bullets in a round, okay?” 🤔 pic.twitter.com/LxmTk9EjyC— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 24, 2022
And we know who he’ll get to enforce that!
I’m still not clear on something, though: Is that more or less than a “30 magazine clip”?
[Via Dan Gifford]
NEVER ENOUGH: 135 DEMS DEMAND ATF GET AGGRESSIVE ON 80 PERCENT GUNS [More]
They join the 14 Senate Democrats just now realizing that if “Do as I say” is going to work, you first need to know what the hell you’re talking about.
[Via Jess]
Biden gets taken to court for going after gun sellers
Licenses revoked over ‘simply paperwork violations’ [More]
They’re getting the population of dealers down to a manageable level of larger corporations more manipulable by struggle session pressures and open lawfare to do what they’re told.
Fourteen Senate Democrats on Tuesday sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) asking the agencies to strictly enforce a new law on ghost guns because companies are dodging the rule through a loophole. [More]
Reminds me of a Xeroxed cartoon that was making the rounds out of the engineering department at a place I used to work at:
[Via Jess]
At the time of the ruling, attorney Stephen Stamboulieh advised that no appeal would be filed due to time, expense, and the unlikelihood of it succeeding. This could change that. A motion for reconsideration may now be feasible since Biden’s attorney Clark publicly acknowledged the investigation. [More]
With his lawyer publicly acknowledging an investigation, ATF’s “Hunter Biden privacy” claim at this point is demonstrably BS.
The Department of Justice’s Statement of Interest informs the Court that the United States has serious concerns about the proliferation of untraceable firearms easily assembled from firearm parts kits and unfinished frames and receivers. [More]
Well, yeah. If we don’t know about them, how are we expected to confiscate them?
[Via Jess]
As seen in Phoenix:
How does that saying about “the friend of my enemy” go again…?
FOIA Uncovers ATF and Legacy Media Working Together [More]
Hey, they’re going with what works.
Anybody surprised to find USA Today/Gannett at the bottom of this?
