Notes from the Resistance
Was Humiliating Navy Rifle Photo Actually Photoshopped? [More]
If so, by whom, and why did the Navy put it up in the first place?
Others with more knowledge of such things than me (I’m a rights guy, not a hardware guy) are also pointing out disparities in rail spacing and the like.
I may look into doing a FOIA request.
It worked with the Air Force to get Sutherland Springs shooter court martial records, although I did have to sue them…
Does the DOJ have the power to create new classes of “prohibited persons” outside of what is statutorily defined? [More]
First they said they had no pages. Now they say they have 350. So what’s on those pages, and will any establish they are authorized to redefine”prohibited person” disqualifiers?
I got a series of emails from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife regarding my Freedom of Access Act request for documentation leading to the decision to cancel an “AR rifles” safety class.
It looks like the sent me a lot of what I asked for but I’ll be going through everything this weekend to see and then writing a follow-up report.
Who the DOJ is partnering with and how their activities are lawful in light of the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on the Second Amendment are of particular interest. [More]
I don’t think anyone’s ever asked them to provide documents showing how they figure their actions are consistent with Bruen before.
GOP senator rips Biden’s ‘gun-grabbing’ DOJ for taking nearly 2 years to answer for controversial policy – Sen Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, first wrote the ATF in 2022 demanding answers on its ‘knock and talk’ policy [More]
I just got an unresponsive response to a FOIA request I made in 2015.
I’ll be talking about that after I decide what I’m going to do about it.
[Via Jess]
Can NICS be used for purposes for which it is not federally authorized? [More]
It makes fair the question “What else could the prohibitonists use it for?”
Two Year Battle for Documents on ATF Chief Ends in 318 Redacted Pages [More]
I feel their pain.
The only way this will change is if Republicans manage to not blow the elections, and then to start keeping the campaign promises that had no chance of passing when they made them.
Hunter Biden legal team may need to overhaul defense strategy in gun case [More]
That drives the timing on resurrecting one FOIA and pressing one complaint:
And point of order on that “second gun”– the (extremely NSFW!) Marco Polo report, at the top of page 282, claims:
“Five days after he illegally obtained a .38 caliber handgun, Hunter solicited a female to the Red Roof Plus+ in Newark. During the tryst, he posed with what he claimed was a black ‘airgun,’” [further identified in a footnote as a] “PT-80 Semi-Auto .177 Cal. CO2 Pellet Pistol 8 shot magazine from GAMO.”
No?
In any case, I’m interested in finding out if any report raised the question of Biden lying on the 4473 before this one.
[Via Dan Gifford]
When it comes to the federal government and responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, it is so commonplace for federal agencies to drag their feet and not provide fully responsive documentation that it is not even newsworthy when those agencies do not comply with the law. Instead, they miss deadlines and redact perfectly responsive and unprivileged information. This runs contrary to the purpose of FOIA, which is to allow citizens access to the activities of their government. [More]
[Via bondmen]
The request for a roundup of Hunter Biden-related cases alarmed agents because some attendees from DOJ — including Biden political appointees — had no authority in the case. That puts Merrick Garland’s insistence of “no DOJ interference” into serious doubt. [More]
“No authority”…? But what about Hunter’s “privacy”?
This is why I do FOIAs.
And why they resist them.
Unlawfully usurping authority isn’t the only thing the government is trying to hide in this case, and by that, I mean in relation to guns. [More]
Two big questions concerning unlawful government practices allegations will remain unanswered if a stonewalling DOJ has it’s way and Republicans continue their deliberate indifference.
After all, the first FOIA request was initially balked at by questioning my qualifications as a journalist, then claiming no records could be found, then saying they withdrew that, and finally declaring they shouldn’t have responded at all because Biden’s privacy interests made the requested documents none of the public’s business. Now they’re saying they can’t answer the second FOIA request because of “ongoing litigation.” [More]
ATF has more excuses than Joliet Jake.
ATF had installed undercover agents in a house across the street from the Davidians, to observe them. This is the agents’ report for Feb. 19, nine days before the ATF raid and initial gunfight, describing what they did that day. They went shooting. With David Koresh. [More]
David Hardy’s FOIA has uncovered a bit of inconvenient history the DSM will be sure to ignore.
Multiple federal LE sources are telling me that a message was blasted to all federal LE agencies to start cataloging social media posts of known conservative influencers so they can be threat assessed. [More]
We need a bit more than that. If you know any sources who would be willing to talk to House Oversight and Senate Judiciary Republicans, lemme know and I’ll see what I can help set up.
Maybe it’s time for a FOIA request or two from some of the prominent ones? It would be revealing to get back a refusal because they don’t talk about ongoing investigations!
[Via WiscoDave]
GOA and AmmoLand Team Up To Analyze Anti-gun Groups FOIAs [More]
Knowing what intelligence the enemy is seeking can tell us a lot about its plans.
