Category: ATF

So Much for ‘Shall Not be Infringed’…

ATF has posted the following corrections to the Final Rule which appeared in the Federal Register on April 26, 2022. The Final Rule, with these corrections, is effective in two days, August 24, 2022. This set of updates provides technical corrections to the Final Rule. [More]

What do you think the Founders would have had to say about this?

For That Day When the Collar Comes Off

On Monday, ATF announced Ruling 2022-1, signed August 17, 2022, authorizing FFLs to retain an electronic version of each ATF Form 4473, provided the method of digital storage and conditions of the ruling are met. Retail FFLs seeking to eliminate paper and take advantage of the new ruling must comply with ATF Ruling 2016-2 and subsequent rulings. [More]

Yeah, Pamela Scott says her phone is full…

[Via Jess]

Coming Soon, To a Neighborhood Near You

The Break Down of The First Known ATF FRT Confiscation [More]

I continue to shake my head at the number of gun owners who don’t grok the basics. And I’m not surprised that they rolled on the next guy.

That said, I don’t think it’s fair to judge ATF Special Agent Chuck Donahoe until you’ve goose-stepped a mile in his jackboots.

[Via Jess]

Without a Trace

Boxes of paper records fill nearly every corridor of the ATF’s National Tracing Center, where agents are struggling to keep up with surging requests from local police. [More]

Still singing the same old song…

What they want, of course, is a national registry database traceable to legal purchasers that will by design exclude the illegal ones. Who but a deplorable hate-filled racist Nazi white supremacist could be against that?

[Via Jess]

A Plan Comes Together

ATF’s New ‘Ghost Gun’ Rules Are as Clear as Mud – The ATF used a lot of words that invite lawsuits and leave industry insiders baffled. [More]

That’s by design. Make things so complicated nobody can figure them out and be willing to take investment risks. Plus, fedgov has unlimited resources to tie challenges up in court for years and/or until the Democrats can pass bulletproof legislation.

[Via Samuel W]

Ask Him No Questions He’ll Tell You No Lies

Get your questions answered TODAY at 9:00 PM EST on zoom with David Chipman. [More]

Unfortunately, that was last night.

For some reason, I’m reminded of the end of the 1960 film version of The Time Machine, where Filby finds George has returned to the future after having taken three books from his library. There are many books, so it’s impossible to tell which were taken, but they will be used to rebuild human civilization in a degenerate future.

“Which three would you take?” he asks Mrs. Watchett, the housekeeper (and, in effect, the movie audience).

What question would YOU like to ask Chipman?

Mine starts with “Why don’t you go …”

[Via WiscoDave]

Key Questions

The ATF claims that Hoover conspired with Ervin to sell lightning links. They further contended, quite audaciously, that raising money for Ervin’s legal defense was part of that conspiracy on the theory that, if Ervin won his case, Hoover would be able to advertise the card again. The ATF admits that Hoover never sold any cards but maintains that, since he promoted the AutoKeyCard, he was also guilty.[More]

Tyrants don’t like the First Amendment any better than they do the Second. We’ll see if this “unravels.” Me, I don’t trust the referees.

They really do seem to have been piling up the in-your-face outrages of late, almost like they have expectations they’ll be able to keep squeezing. Either that or somebody is trying to provoke something so they have an excuse to go all out.

[Via Jess]

‘Shall Not be Infringed’ Except…

FPC Files New Lawsuit Challenging ATF “Frame or Receiver” Rule [More]

ATF knows they’re in the wrong. But what do they care? They’ve got unlimited plunder to tap into and none of them will face any personal repercussions.

And some of us don’t think Congress has legitimate authority to do this, either.

[Via Jess]

A Pound of Cure

Several people have reached out to us and have told us GoFundMe will shut our page down since they are anti 2A. To everyone that donated thus far we have secured those funds and are now moving to a 2A friendly platform so any sharing or donations please go to this link instead at GiveSendGo. Thank you again! [More]

That’ll teach ’em to object!

Is this a bad time to bring up an ounce of prevention?

[Via Jess]

On Whose Authority?

[T]he issue that was being examined is to what extent a regulatory agency, a part of the administrative branch of government, would adopt, interpret or establishment by rules or regulations policies which Congress did not adopt and which Congress did not clearly and specifically delegate to the agency to adopt. That question is at the core of the legal issues involving the ATF’s regulatory bans… [More]

Call me a naive dreamer, but I still hold on to a fleeting fantasy that someday, ATF will be forced to surrender my property back to me. That’s why I got a stock I had no use for except to claim and defend my right to own it.

[Via Jess]

Wanting and Getting

Gun Shop Owner Wants ATF Auditor Investigated for Using Her Personal Phone to Photograph Documents [More]

As I’ve surmised before, we’re going to need two things to happen: First, the Republicans are going to have to not blow the “red wave” and reclaim House Oversight and Senate Judiciary, and second, unlike with “Gunwalker,” they’re going to have to strap ’em on and get serious about investigating and prosecuting all the way to the top.

[Via bondmen]

Those Who Remember the Past…

WarOnGuns Correspondent Jess asks via email:

David, Is that something that ATF actually ordered? If I was Leatherman, I’d have sent ’em a sample alright, but with a small change. At either end of the line “Always Think Forfeiture”, I would have also engraved a hammer and sickle!

They tried but the order was canceled after Congressman Bill Sali, (R-Idaho), raised objections.

But big John Kerry supporter TimLeatherman would have loved to fill the order.

#PamelaScott

“I told her we prefer ‘gun enthusiast,’” Nagel said. “She said she prefers ‘gun nuts,’ and she works for the ATF?”

Scott found nothing in the shop’s books other than a few minor clerical errors. There were no missing firearms or other significant problems.

“She said she was going to put us in for revocation, and that it may change as it goes up the chain, but that was her recommendation,” Nagel said. [More]

She sounds like a hook-baiter.

Tyranny enforcers haven’t learned a thing since King George “sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people.” I wonder if Republicans don’t blow it in November if House Oversight will subpoena her.

[Via Jess]

Dance, Puppets, Dance!

The U.S. gun industry has effectively “captured” the law enforcement agency charged with regulating it, according to a new report from the Giffords Law Center that recommends a number of changes to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. [More]

Now that I know NSSF is holding them hostage maybe they can order them to cough up that information on Hunter Biden they’ve been holding on to…

It Depends Upon What the Meaning of the Word ‘Minor’ Is

Lawyer Jim Trusty, former chief of the DOJ’s Organized Crime Section, said reports that the investigation is coming to an end suggests that Hunter will be hit with minor tax charges and for making false statements when purchasing a handgun in 2018.  [More]

Purchasing two handguns, actually, if anyone in authority is interested in, you know, investigating. And for each instance:

The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993, ushered into law by then-Sen. Joe Biden, at the time chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made Form 4473 a key part of background checks for gun purchases mandated by the law.

Lying on the form is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. For being a user of unlawful drugs in possession of a firearm, the punishment is up to five years.

I’ll have to ask Stephen Stamboulieh if Hunter pleads out what that will do to my ATF complaint.

[Via bondmen]

Cause and Effect

Steven Dettelbach, the newly sworn-in director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said there is no overarching answer to solving the nation’s gun violence, even as guns have become the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. [More]

All by their own selves?

But what about those numbers?

This is how it works: Step one, acquire statistics on firearm-related deaths among children ages 1-14. Step two, combine that relatively low number with the far greater number of firearm-related deaths involving juveniles and young adults ages 15-19, or even ages 15-24. Step three, present the resulting data as the shocking number of “children” (ages 1-19 or 1-24) who are subjected to “gun violence” each day/week/month/year. Step four, use the disingenuous statistic to advocate for pre-determined gun control policies.

Gee, it’s almost like the media are the enemy or something…

[Via Jess]

Fishing Expedition

VIDEO: ATF conducts surprise firearm inspection at man’s home without search warrant [More]

Never talk to the police. All that friendly and reasonable posturing is just that.

At most, he could have said something like “Give me your card and I will have my lawyer call you.”

Although I do admit, if I had ATF and Delaware State Police together in one handy, recordable location, I’d have been willing to extend the conversation to questions about Hunter Biden’s gun.

[Via several of you]

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