But forget mere errors. There’s real corruption and law-breaking… [More]
It’s like they’re too arrogant and stupid to realize there are no houses more fragile than glass ones.
ATF Has Zero Tolerance for Everything But Its Own Abusive Criminality
Category: ATF
The Big Chill
Bass Pro Shop’s Background Check Policy Raises Questions [More]
After seeing how Morehouse was retaliated against with a bend-and-spread-’em audit that had the goal of finding something, anything, to revoke its FFL, and noting the anal levels ATF stoops to over “Don’t Lie for the Other Guy” (enthusiastically partnered with by NSSF), over-cautiousness is inevitable, especially where corporate timidity over anything controversial is the rule.
We’re the Only Ones Flagging Enough
ATF Gets Roasted on Twitter for Posting Range Photo with Agent Breaking Gun Safety Rules [More]
These are the incompetents demanding zero tolerance for errors from FFLs.
[Via bondmen]
When Daywalkers Knock
We’re the Only Ones Tactical Enough
ATF agents wearing tactical gear and bearing AR-15s raided the Oklahoma home of Russell Fincher, a 52-year-old high school history teacher, “kitchen table” gun dealer, and Baptist minister. [More]
I understand Establishment Republicans have had problems with the term “jackbooted thugs”…?
On Reconsideration
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before
“We estimate that about 70 percent of the guns that end up in Mexico are guns that come from the United States of America,” said Salazar. [More]
They’re counting on short memories.
That’s what happens when you’re confident your operations can abet killing people with impunity and the DSM will cover for you.
[Via Lane]
Unlawful Infringement
Biden loses ‘ghost gun’ case, ATF ban ‘unlawful’ [More]
This is by no means a done deal, but it does raise hopes for bump stocks and stabilizing braces, and for checks and balances.
[Via Jess]
Enemy Action
It would be hard to convince me that this is a normal routine inspection and not an effort at retribution by the Justice Department and their henchmen at BATFE. [More]
Biden’s DOJ puts the squeeze on an FFL who’s suing over bump stocks. The tyrannical pettiness reminds me of Red’s Trading Post.
So if it’s not happenstance and it’s not a coincidence, what does that leave us?
I became aware of this soon after I announced my slowdown. I was thinking of maybe doing an article, but I couldn’t do a better job than John Richardson has done, so why not just go read what he has to say?
Curses! Foiled Again!
A rare win: ATF fails to revoke New Jersey gun dealer’s federal firearm license [More]
As we’ve seen before in graphic detail, a few minor paperwork errors and they make a federal case out of it.
My question: Did lead attack dog John Curtis commit career suicide by ultimately not “just following orders”?
A ‘Pro-Gun’ Democrat
I hope everyone in West Virginia sees this for what it is….. Joe Manchin is NOT a supporter of the 2nd Amendment. And, assuming he truly believes what he is saying here, he is not very smart on the right to bear arms issue. If you allow ATF to redefine congressional statutes as they please and change course at will, then what’s to prevent ATF from later declaring via regulation that “semi-automatic rifles like AR-15s” are really really “machine guns” that need to be registered under the NFA. [More]
And there are still idiots ostensibly on “our side” out there saying the bump stock ban is “just about a stupid piece of plastic.”
Typically, the same bloviating morons who say “The Second Amendment GIVES us the right” and “Enforce existing gun laws”…
Much Ado About What, Exactly?
Telling It Like It Is
[Via Jess]
Rotten to the Core
At the center of this case is whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) properly interpreted the term “machinegun,” as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b), to include items known as non-mechanical bump stocks. [More]
And at the center of that is the question of where the hell any branch of government has the legitimate authority to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
[Via Jess]
A Message That Bears Repeating
New FOIA Request Filed on Hunter Biden Gun Investigation Now That Privacy Excuse is Gone
Because the DOJ has now made charges public, and because Biden’s attorney has acknowledged those charges, attorney Stephen Stamboulieh filed a new FOIA request Tuesday afternoon. [More]
The Biden administration’s enforcers want to gloss this over and are counting on the “real reporters” to let them. My sense is there’s more here to uncover and I want to keep digging and find out what they don’t want us to know.
Come One, Come All
No Big Deal
7th Circuit reverses Northern District judgment, reinstates indictment for man for answering falsely on firearm application [More]
Fortunately, we now know that all he’ll get is a slap on the wrist, right?
[Via Jess]
Speaking of Sending Hither Swarms of Officers to Harass Our People…
During my visit to Highwood Creek Outfitters, I learned that the IRS confiscated all the 4473 forms from the store. This means that the sensitive personal information of any customer ever to purchase a firearm at Highwood Creek Outfitters is now in the hands of the IRS. These background check forms include no financial information, and there is no discernable reason why the IRS would need these forms. The IRS committed an egregious breach of privacy for Montana’s gun owners, and I am outraged that the agents involved showed no regard for federal law. Although there are still some murky details regarding the events at Highwood Creek Outfitters. There is no circumstance in which 4473’s would be necessary in an investigation spearheaded by the IRS. [More]
I guess seizing records outright beats taking pictures with their phones. Funny, how this most significant piece of information got buried until the end of the “news” account…
[Via Jess]
Truth in Stereotypes
[Via WiscoDave]
