Category: gun sales

‘Scheme’ is Right

The Western Australian government is set to introduce new gun laws, which could be the first of their kind in Australia. A limit for how many guns a licensee can own will be proposed, seeing the number of firearms capped at ten for competitive club shooters. Individual recreational gun users will only be allowed to own five. A voluntary buyback scheme is in the works for those impacted by the proposed changes. The proposed new laws will make Western Australia the first state in the country to impose a firearm cap. [Watch]

Leave it to “real reporters” to call mandates “voluntary” with a straight face.

Hey, are we actually obligated to defend this drunken suicide cult?

[Via Jess]

Grassley to ATF: Explain Focus on Gun Owners Instead of Cartel Trafficking

If that sounds familiar, it’s the premise on which Operation Fast and Furious, which Grassley opened his letter to Dettelbach with, was founded. [More]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

Spinning Wheel Got to Go ‘Round

Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX), chairman of the House Small Business Committee, is launching an investigation into a new rule from the Biden administration making single-sale gun sellers subject to gun dealing licenses. [More]

Small businesses, eh…?

The bourgeoisie…

So then what’ll happen?

[Via Jess]

Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before

ATF Warns Texas FFLs About Dangerous Cartel Activity in the Next 60 Days [More]

I don’t suppose there’s a fix for this before things get to that point…?

Oh, I keep forgetting– this has nothing to do with that “single issue.”

And point of order:

Former Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the sale of guns to the cartels in that operation. The idea was to track the weapons back to Mexico, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) lost track of the firearms.

That wasn’t the idea, that was the excuse. If there’s evidence the Phoenix Field Division got those instructions from Holder, I have not seen it. And you don’t “lose track” of weapons if you don’t attempt to track them.

This was no “botched gun sting.”

[Via Jess]

At Least This Time the Taliban Bought the Buddhist Statues First

Culver City buys controversial gun store [More]

The only controversy I remember is when they let us set a table up outside to invite customers to our Westside Firearms Association (later NRA Members Council over my opposition) meetings and an occasional car of “progressives” would drive by and scream obscenities at us.

[Via Jess]

Once More Unto the Breach

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several gun-control measures on Tuesday, including a bill that tightens the state’s concealed-carry rules and another that imposes a new tax on firearm and ammunition sales. [More]

If they’re already rated “A,” and since he’s still trying for even more, what further proof is needed that it will never be enough for these totalitarian freaks?

Of course, they’re talking about taking your guns.

[Via several of you]

Related UPDATE

“Unless we enshrine a Right to Safety in the Constitution, we are at the mercy of ideologues like Judge Benitez… This is exactly why I’ve called for a Constitutional amendment, and this is why I’ll keep fighting to defend our right to protect ourselves from gun violence.” [More]

How do YOU do it, liar, if not with guns?

[Via Scott J]

Calling All Comment Posters

Brady’s Astroturf Campaign To Skew The Comments [Watch]

Skew back.

Here’s my comment:

This proposed rule infrin ges on the Second Amendment.

As Edwin Vieira Jr. noted in Kolbe v. Hogan:

“This reliance on a permanent private market for firearms guaranteed that most militiamen, through their own efforts, could always obtain firearms suitable for both collective and individual self-defense, and forestalled tyranny by precluding rogue public officials from monopolizing the production, distribution, and possession of firearms.”

They gave me a tracking number to check back when it’s posted.

Have you made your views known yet?

UPDATE

John Lott explains how this will create a backdoor gun registry.

[Via Jess]

The Importance of Being Ernst

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is asking the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to explain the surge in revoked Federal Firearms Licenses (FFLs) and suggesting it has overstepped the boundaries of the law. [More]

“Suggesting”…?

Is that finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing?

This is the same “solidly pro-gun candidate” who voted with Chuck Schumer on that “bipartisan” bill the administration is now using to sabotage private sales.

[Via bondmen]

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

Clarifying that the intent to “predominantly earn a profit” does not require the person to have received pecuniary gain… [More]

That’s something else government “monetary policy” makes difficult. The thought strikes that I (hypothetically, because I don’t admit to owning guns in a forum accessible to “law enforcement”) bought a 44 Magnum Ruger New Model Super Blackhawk off a guy from work back in 1978 for around $175 as I recall ( or would recall if this wasn’t hypothetical) and today that model used goes for around $600.

Seems like a tidy profit, no?

Hold the phone:

When using the core inflation measurement, $1 in 1978 is equivalent in buying power to $4.68 in 2023, a difference of $3.68.

The way I see it, I’d be taking a substantial loss.

I’m reminded of the strange case of former FBI Agent John Shipley (note internal links will need to be accessed through the Wayback Machine).

In the case of those feeding at the citizen disarmament trough, I’m reminded of Mark 8:36.

Related UPDATE

And yeah, one gun could trigger things…

BOHICA

Justice Department Proposes New Regulation to Update Definition of “Engaged in the Business” as a Firearms Dealer [More]

Here’s ATF’s summary.

Here’s the proposed rule.

When they’ve got it in the Federal Register you’ll be able to find it and comment here.

Not that the tyrannical swine following orders to impose this will listen.

Which means a filing to halt this based on history, text, and tradition of gun sales at the time of the Founding will need to be filed in a jurisdiction likely to issue an injunction.

UPDATE

GOA’s take:

Today, the Biden ATF formally rolled out their plans to implement backdoor universal background checks, which was made possible by Senator John Cornyn’s “compromise” legislation passed last summer.

ATF Import Seminar

On September 19, 2023, Export Compliance Training Institute (ECTI) will host a 90-minute webinar, A Primer on Navigating ATF Import Controls, where attorney Johanna Reeves will demystify the ATF’s rules on importing defense articles into the United States. From firearms to destructive devices, we’ve got it all covered! [More]

Here’s how to take part.

I don’t see it on the Reeves & Dola LLP Alerts page yet so posted the email to my WOG Placeholder blog.

If you’re in the industry or just want to know about relevant import/export laws, you really ought to know about these alerts.

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