Category: ATF

An Age-Old Question

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument today in the Reese v. ATF lawsuit involving a federal gun control law preventing young adults from purchasing handguns from FFLs. [Watch]

The ultimate absurdity is young adults being old enough to vote for the government to tell them they’re not old enough to own guns.

[Via Jess]

A Numbers Game

We have breaking news. We now know the firearm, according to reports, that was used by the anti-Trump guy who tried to assassinate President Trump on Sunday, that apparently the serial number has been obliterated or partially obliterated. Now this is a big deal because it’s going to play a role in the October 8th oral argument in the Vanderstok case before the US Supreme Court, so let’s connect some dots. [Watch]

If he was a prohibited person, a serial number wouldn’t trace to him anyway.

Don’t expect the Democrat DOJ, politicians, and DSM to acknowledge that when they have an opportunity to spook the herd and guin up hysteria.

He also make a good point about including such information on 4473s that the BIDS system exposes. The antis lie about why they want “background checks,” too.

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Rekindling Enough

Two months after the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shared its findings on the cause of the Lahaina wildfire with Maui County officials, the agency continues to withhold that information from the public. The bureau’s spokesman said he is mystified as to why. [More]

I hope no one is suggesting the impact on property values has worked to the advantage of certain connected parties or anything… or that certain agencies are motivated by anything other than the whole truth…

Forced Reset

From Len Savage via email:

A forced reset trigger does exactly what it sounds. It forces the trigger to reset.

So when you pull the trigger, there is a cam (compared to traditional AR triggers) that pushes your trigger forward, back to the ‘start’ position which allows you to fire your subsequent shots much quicker. The cam also will not let you pull the trigger until a fresh round of ammo is chambered and ready to fire. Once it chambers a fresh round the cam then drops away and you can only then pull the trigger.

With a forced reset trigger you have essentially taken semi automatic method of fire to near 100% efficiency (not unlike a bump stock in that regard). By forcing the reset and limiting the trigger travel there is an economy of time and movement that allows for a rate of fire near that of the host firearm cyclic rate.

It’s not a machine gun because you are pulling the trigger once for every shot fired. You are doing it. You are doing it with incredible speed because there is no waste of time or movement.

Incredible fire rate sound like fun? It certainly is!

Reason for me blasting it out is I keep getting asked about them.

I have hands on technical experience with them.

Currently they are ALL legal (and have been since July 24th) unless Judge Reed O’Connor gets overruled.

Going with What Works

Both the White House and ATF have turned down multiple House Oversight inquiries into charges of ‘collusion’ with Chicago’s lawsuit against Glock [More]

Gee, when have we seen a Democrat administration stonewall House Oversight on gun-related scandals before…?

[Via Jess]

Spooks Run Wild

It will be telling if they reply they can’t comment on ongoing criminal investigations.

[Via Jess]

And If You Act Now…

The ATF has begun the embarrassing process of returning bump stocks to their original owners after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the agency wrongfully determined they were machineguns, but only if the owners act within 90 days. The ATF sent letters titled “Notice of Opportunity to Request Return of Bump Stock(s) in ATF Custody” last week. They include an address in Washington, D.C. and an email that the former owners can contact to arrange for the return of their property. Once the requests are processed, the letter states, “you will be contacted by someone from the local ATF field office to arrange retrieval of your bump stock(s).” [More]

Just a few days ago agents I spoke with told me they were forfeited.

Left hand/right hand?

[Via Jess]

ATF Returns Bump Stock to Rightful Owner After Five-Year Legal Struggle

This is a small but concrete example that we still have at our disposal the remarkable system bequeathed to us by the Founders and that we can still use the courts to our advantage, as frustratingly drawn out as that process can be. We won’t be able to do that anymore if apathy and cynicism turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy that cedes the power to appoint the federal judiciary to the Democrats, who will then be able to have the Bruen opinion reversed and any citizen disarmament edict they pass upheld. [More]

As long as we can still score wins by peaceable means you can’t legitimately say voting is useless. Don’t let a self-fulfilling prophecy make this the election that changes that.

A Forced Reset

NAGR wins lawsuit against ATF trigger ban … The ATF may appeal this ruling, but precedent and momentum are both on our side, and we fully anticipate the absolute end of the ATF’s unlawful, unconstitutional ban on forced reset triggers. [More]

They’ll appeal because they have unlimited tax plunder to do it with and dragging things out and making plaintiffs spend their hard-won funds is part of the game.

NAGR is doing a good job of late, especially at refuting an old image.

[Via Jess]

If Wishes Were Fishes

Next Vice President Wants To Abolish ATF! [Watch]

It’s nothing he didn’t tell us three years ago.

I’d hold off on the exclamation points and gushing over campaign rhetoric until he fleshes out what he wants to do with ATF’s functions, and how he intends to get from here to there with Congress.

Offloading it onto another agency could just make things worse.

[Via Jess]

Burden of Proof

…they have no database, they have no digital way, they have no searchable function, they just have someone that goes manually piece by piece by piece looking for a serial number amongst a billion two-page documents, front and back, and they found it in 30 minutes… [Watch]

Here’s the CNN piece.

Sorry, I don’t doubt there are violations, but I’m not buying this as proof. ATF didn’t have to go through billions of records. They knew the manufacturer and the serial number ID’d FFL it was sent to and the date, and since the business had closed and ATF had its records on site, a search with several people looking could very well have been done in that time. If it was still an active FFL, inspectors going to the shop would have taken a bit longer, but they’d have still gotten it done in short order.

[Via Jess]

We’re the Only One… What the Hell Are YOU Lookin’ At…?

Bodycam from Brunswick PD at Buzzard’s Roost in Hinckley, OH shows alleged drunk off-duty ATF/DEA/HSI agents illegally detain a man, reports show multiple charges on the agents, including abduction. [Watch]

I need to set aside an hour over the weekend to watch this.

[Via Len Savage]

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