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Freedom Surrender Deadline

When Will the ATF Require Me to Serialize My Homemade Firearm? [Watch]

The real question is will you obey them?

[Via Jess]

Rope-a-Dope

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Defense Distributed have teamed up to sue the State of California over its ban on CNC machines used for producing unserialized firearms and a law letting the State recover attorney fees from plaintiffs and their lawyers. [More]

You get the feeling that the state, with virtually unlimited resources, is forcing the gun groups to expend all of theirs on lawsuit after lawsuit, counting on exhausting and wearing them out until they’ve got nothing left to punch with.

[Via Jess]

I Wouldn’t Be Uncorking the Champagne Just Yet

Polymer80 To Start Selling Unserialized Gun Frames …Again [More]

How will they do that without creating subpoenable records of who bought them? Or has ATF given up on self-conflicting rule interpretations and changes?

And will they take cash?

Much Ado about Nothing

“Polymer80 is on the front lines of protecting the Second Amendment rights of all Americans right now,” Kelley told ProPublica. “That’s not a brag. It’s just the reality because we’ve become the whipping boy for emotionally driven government policy.” [More]

Say you could retrieve every gun involved here. How many crimes would be solved and killers would be taken off the streets if you could trace their serial numbers to their lawful owners?

[Via 1Gat]

The Wrong Questions

In his order on Tuesday, Welte wrote: “The rather speculative risk of harm to the plaintiffs, on the one hand, does not outweigh the harm to the ATF’s interest in law enforcement and public safety, on the other.” [More]

Spoken like a true judicial fascist, all the while avoiding the real issues. Who recommended him to Trump?

This is what happens when confirmation hearings are treated more like pre-coronation ceremonies than job interviews.

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]

Everything Must Go!

Fire Sale: Dealers rush to sell ghost gun parts before restrictions take effect [More]

Now show me where they’re rushing to destroy customer records before they can be seized.

[Via bondmen]

Thank Your Republican Leadership!

A manufacturer of untraceable “ghost guns” has been ordered to pay D.C. $4 million as part of a legal settlement that will also prohibit it from selling any guns to city residents in the future. [More]

Left unsaid is that Ebony Scott is a leftist tool confirmed with the help of Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Roy Blunt, Shelley Capito, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, and Thom Tillis.

And yes, we could come up with damning links on all of them.

[Via Jess]

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