Notes from the Resistance
Curious how much less “gun violence” there was in this country before Democrats started imposing all this “progress.” [More]
Once more we’re being lied to, and the biggest ally would-be totalitarians have in imposing their treachery are complicit Fourth Estate Fifth Columnists.
How the ATF traced guns at crime scenes to St. Charles man [More]
But it’s not as fun as going after collectors and FFLs, as you can tell by the “five years probation” sentence.
As for his untrustworthy customers…
[Via bondmen]
The Prevent Illegal Gun Resales Act would add common sense structural reform to the gun sale industry by boosting license application requirements for gun retailers, proportionally increasing the cost of licensing fees, and adding a new definition for “high-risk dealers” that would include sellers who:
Had a known violation or warning in the past three years; Had firearms either lost or stolen from them within the preceding year; or, Were the source of two or more guns with a time-to-crime of three years or less. [More]
In other words, close them all down.
Yes, Bob, exactly like Democrats.
Yes, this is political posturing for the media, and no, it won’t pass — yet — but it’s instructive to see what the plans are for when previous impediments are removed through “compromise.”
The only reason to let the enemy get closer to the target is to draw him into a trap.
[Via Jess]
Ernst Works to Protect Lawful Gun Dealers from ATF [More]
1% chance of being enacted
Let’s see what the odds will be should election dreams come true. And if anyone’s still interested.
Sorry not sorry to be so cynical, but this is the same “solidly pro-gun candidate” who voted with Chuck Schumer on that “bipartisan” infringement bill the administration is now trying to sodomize us with,
Besides, all this really does is “legitimize” the whole power usurpation scheme. We all have the right to be “lawful gun dealers.”
[Via Jess]
The bill, introduced on Tuesday, will “provide firearm licensees an opportunity to correct statutory and regulatory violations, and for other purposes” and says the “Attorney General may not bring an enforcement action to revoke, or deny a renewal of, a license for a violation of any provision of this chapter or any implementing regulation thereof on the basis of a self-reported violation.” [More]
Good. I was getting tired of posting photos of inspectors with apparent slack stains and then having to deal with threats from U.S. Marshals.
Although I wouldn’t expect Senate Dems to let the bill go anywhere, it’s not on her GovTrack page yet, so I can’t give you a prognosis percent, but my bet is low single-digit.
Say goodbye to your favorite FFL because your state legislature is about to run them all out of business. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses HB 2118, which is now set to be put on the floor in the Senate tonight, and is expected to pass. [Watch]
Fortunately, the black market won’t have to comply with any of this targeted harassment.
[Via Jess]
Gun shops that sell the most guns used in crime revealed in new list [More]
“Real reporter” Nick Penzenstadler and USA Today (A Gannett Publication) said it, I believe it, that settles it.
“Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s, Rural King and Sportsman’s Warehouse”…?
Hey, I’ll bet more cars from large volume dealers are involved in accidents, too!
Produce one instance where any of the named stores, operating under the threat of surprise “zero tolerance” audits and record/inventory seizures, knowingly sold a firearm to a “prohibited person.” Is it their fault if Hunter Biden walks in and lies on a 4473?
Hey, going after the “law-abiding” who leave records to track has always been easier than tackling the underworld.
What? Gannett didn’t tell us about that? And, in fact, made a point of axing and erasing the one guy who would?
Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses HB 2118, a actual reality this legislative session and a bill who’s sole purpose is to financially ruin every single FFL in the State of Washington. If you thought your individual liberties have been under attack, wait until you check this piece of leglislation out. This is the most Orwellian and dystopian piece of legislation to ever be introduced in Washington State and must be stopped now. [Watch]
Prohibitonists gonna prohibit…
[Via Jess]
At the very least, Montgomery County Sheriff Sean Kilkenny has violated his oath of office, particularly the portion in which he swore to support and defend the United States Constitution including the Second Amendment. [More]
“Patsy” seems such a polite way to say “oath-breaking, mother f*****g piece of s***”…
He’s not an unwitting dupe. His evil is self-serving and premeditated.
How Gun Shops Are Helping Prevent Suicide – Groups have set up arrangements where people in crisis can get firearms out of their homes [More]
The story is paywalled but we get enough from that to get the drift.
Questions I’d like to see answered include should anyone do this without counsel, whether doing this could be used against them later, what liability the gun store would face for returning firearms, who would have to authorize that, what’s the criteria for their decision either way, and if an equivalent of a Miranda warning ought to be required…
And none of that addresses the core truth.
[Via Brent M]
National Association for Gun Rights Demands Accountability from ATF Over Rejection of Petitions [More]
Going them with private lawyers is one thing, but it would be nice — if Republicans don’t blow ’24 — if the new AG would go after Dettelbach and his key people for willful violation of the Adminstrative Procedures Act.
[Via Jess]
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 26 attorneys general in opposition to the Biden administration’s shocking and unconstitutional attack on American’s right to keep and bear arms that could criminalize law-abiding citizens for selling a single firearm for profit unless the seller obtains a federal license. [More]
Good arguments, but you know the fix is already in.
It’d be stronger if they had also mutually committed to legal consequences they will initiate on behalf of the gun-owning citizens in their respective states when the rule is enacted.
Then again, control freaks generally won’t slow down unless they’re more personally invested in the cost/benefit ratio.
Once the comment period has ended, the ATF will consider the public comments before deciding whether to adopt the rule, modify it, or drop it. [More]
Y’know, I was nodding along with you right until this last line. Does anyone seriously believe the decision wasn’t made before the required rule was posted for comment?
The only reason I submitted one was to show my solidarity with those making their refusal to bow down a matter of record. That’s why I urge you to come and stand with us, regardless of the coordinated Astroturf campaign.
I just wish I could believe the poor showing from “our side” is because most consider it a useless effort and believe Bruen will save us, instead of what “experience hath shown” to generally be the case.
[Via Dan Gifford]
Attorneys representing the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners in a challenge to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s effort to conduct warrantless searches and seizures from licensed firearms retailers in the county have filed a brief in response to objections by the defendants, in support of an application for summary relief. [More]
He and many other dealers complain that ATF changed their definition of what constitutes a willful violation. The ATF now says that every gun dealer has been told to submit only proper paperwork, so any error – even clerical – constitutes a willful violation of ATF rules. [More]
There is no new thing under the sun.
The functionaries carrying this out must be pretty confident they’ll never be held personally accountable for their “willful violations.”
*Glock 22 40 caliber REVOLVER??
*Glock Model 27 45 (it is supposed to be a 40)
*Browning B799 (it should be a BT-99) 12 gaThis wouldn’t be a big deal, but…the ATF is shutting down gun dealers for minor paperwork errors… [More]
I came across this 2008 post while looking for something else. The original link to the spreadsheet is no more so I had to download one from the Wayback Machine.
North Carolina and North Dakota Police Chiefs and Federal Firearms Licensees Indicted for Conspiracy to Illegally Acquire Machineguns and Other Firearms. [More]
Amidst all the outrage over Larry Vickers, let’s not forget we all have the right to such firearms the chiefs claimed for themselves but would arrest us for. I also find it difficult to comprehend how an FFL and recognized expert, versed in all the traps and pitfalls, could stumble into such a huge one himself.
[Via Jess]
Iannicelli feels his second amendment right to bear arms has been violated by the Florence Gun Shop making him unable to complete his gun purchase. Iannicelli felt the shop denied his background check because of his personal business card that included a link to a website affiliated with Antifa. In addition, Iannicelli said a gun store should not be able decide whether or not to give a background check based on political affiliation. [More]
I’d be in trouble, too, because I’d do the same with Democrats.
I hope their lawyer makes the case that with increased ATF “scrutiny” aimed at revoking FFLs over minor paperwork glitches, the Presidential “Memorandum on Inadmissibility of Persons Affiliated with Antifa Based on Organized Criminal Activity” makes him fear processing a transfer without official guidance– and put the burden on reversing that and declaring Antifa members have an individual right to keep and bear arms on the Biden administration, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and Steve Dettelbach.
[Via Jess]
The feds have busted a long-standing gun store in Albuquerque after a man was allegedly making illegal sales, and trying to sell a fully-automatic rifle. [More]
Hoist with their own petard..?
[Via Jess]
Only took ’em nine days… [More]
Have you posted your comment yet?
GOA VICTORY: ATF BACKS DOWN ON LICENSE REVOCATION FOR NORTH DAKOTA GUN STORE WHO HAD FILED SUIT [More]
What they do when they think they can get away with it is telling.
Brady’s Astroturf Campaign To Skew The Comments [Watch]
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]
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]
Oklahoma lawmaker demanding investigation into ATF SWAT team raid of constituent’s home [More]
That’s an update to this.
Be nice if a North Carolina lawmaker made a similar demand…
That Mongell sounds like a real mongrel, doesn’t he?
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?
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…
State Rep. Demands Investigation After Seven Vehicles Carrying a Dozen ATF Agents with AR-15s and Tactical Gear Raided Gun Dealer’s Home in Oklahoma [More]
They’re trying to provoke. The danger needle is buried in the red.
The question is whether specific orders are issued from on high or if field offices have nod-and-a-wink carte blanche to give management plausible deniability for their excesses, and excuses for widespread overreactions to limited resistance.
[Via Michael G]
GOA FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST ATF OVER ‘ZERO TOLERANCE’ POLICY FOR CLOSING GUN STORES [More]
ATF Has Zero Tolerance for Everything But Its Own Abusive Criminality
ATF Inspector Seizes Gun Store Customer Records Without A Warrant [More]
Once more Stephen Stamboulieh is at the center of righting wrongs.
What’s it say that this is being addressed civilly but not criminally?
[Via Jess]
