Category: ATF

Making an Example

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]

As The Wheels Grind Slowly Forward

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]

Danse Macabre

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]

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

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]

Cornyn Resolution a Desperate Attempt to Save Face After Being Outmaneuvered by Democrats

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…

Think of It as an Audition

“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]

Whatever the Brace May Be

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.

Of Little Import?

Frank Ross Talbert, 40, a Lieutenant Colonel with U.S. Army Explosives Ordinance Disposal (EOD) assigned to Fort Campbell, is facing federal criminal charges after law enforcement officers conducted an investigation and executed multiple search warrants uncovering evidence that Talbert unlawfully imported firearms parts from Russia and other countries, unlawfully dealt in firearms without a federal firearms license, and committed multiple firearms violations related to the possession of machineguns… [More]

Disregarding for a moment that we all should be able to do that, I’m wondering how he thought he could without getting caught and if he exploited his official position in any way to do it.

Or is this just an hysterical way of painting snaring him with some technicalities?

[Via bondmen]

On Topic

OffTopic/
David, What’s with the Ohio AG not joining the other States in the lawsuit challenging the new rule against private sales? [More]

I won’t respond there, because a big thing with me is keeping things on topic (see “Comment H0use Rules” in sidebar). That’s why comment threads hijacked away from the conversation I’m inviting, or worse, devolving into childish squabbling, really grind my gears.

But it’s a good question, and Dave Yost hasn’t shied away from those before.

Where is Ohio?

Let’s ask him.

COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

Plaintiffs bring this action seeking a stay of agency action, temporary restraining order, and/or a preliminary injunction to preserve the status quo, followed by a declaratory judgment and permanent injunctive relief restraining Defendants from enforcing a Final Rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of the U.S. Department of Justice on April 19, 2024, entitled “Definition of ‘Engaged in the Business’ as a Dealer in Firearms” (“Final Rule”), 89 Fed. Reg. 28968. [More]

This is good work:

COUNT 5 Second Amendment: Right to Keep and Bear Arms 193. All foregoing allegations are repeated and realleged as if fully set forth herein. 194. The Second Amendment provides that “[a] well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” 195. The text of the Second Amendment provides no qualifications or limitations constraining who may exercise the right or for what purpose the right may be exercised. Accordingly, the Second Amendment presumptively protects all Americans and all lawful purposes. 196. ATF failed “to justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 17 (2022). Nor can ATF justify its regulation because there is no early American tradition of requiring licensure of gun sellers

Plenty of pundits will be giving you their read on this. Why not read it for yourself?

[Via Len Savage]