Notes from the Resistance
Almost daily, legislators propose new gun laws aimed at reducing crime rates. However, both new and existing laws are unlikely to impact crime significantly. With over 90 years of gun control legislation and crime data, it’s clear that these laws do little to curb criminality or save lives. [More]
“Gun Control” doesn’t work, at least for its stated justification.
Unlike FOIA requests, which can ask for records, the committee can ask questions and has subpoena power to cut through to the chase and get them answered. [More]
Getting a simple question answered shouldn’t take an act of Congress, presuming House Oversight Republicans will act…
This lengthy lawsuit by the Maryland and D.C. attorneys general, as well as Everytown Law, accuses Engage Armament, LLC, United Gun Shop and Atlantic Guns, Inc. of ignoring clear signs of illegal gun sales. The lawsuit claims the purchases happened in Montgomery County, but led to gun violence across the area. [More]
Of course “background checks” aren’t enough — they were never intended to be.
I’m just surprised NSSF hasn’t joined in the pile-on.
[Via Jess]
At about 4:50 in, they talk about the FOIA request appeal.
That all that was produced was copies of non-responsive CFR sections makes it fair to surmise such information will not be voluntarily provided because it cannot be provided. [More]
Ask a simple question — get no answer…
It’s clear that the FBI has no intention of responding, which makes fair another question: Why? [More]
Just who do you think works for whom anyway…?
Biden calls son Hunter’s ‘resilience’ amid gun trial charges ‘inspiring’ [More]
Now let you get caught gaming NICS.
The gaslighting hypocrisy from these people is so in-your-face it stuns, which means it’s working.
Now go out and see if you can find any of the major “commonsense gun safety” prohibitonist groups that are demanding “universal background checks” condemning Hunter, demanding he be made an example of, and publicly pushing back against Joe shrugging things off.
What all those pages in the FOIA response did not do is provide what was being asked for. [More]
I wonder why they won’t share where they get the authority to strong-arm permanent gun disabilities without due process and that are not statutorily authorized from…
Simply put, “gun control” doesn’t work, and it’s astounding that the head of the firearms manufacturer trade association is publicly insisting that it does. [More]
Industry CYA at the expense of our rights is unacceptable.
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?”
Pakistani Illegal Alien on Terror Watchlist Released Before Being Caught Again [More]
In other words, the most dangeous kind would not be included in Terror Watchlist bills affecting NICS.
By design.
[Via Michael G]
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Gun Background Check Database Contains Nearly 14 Million Entries For Illegal Immigrants [More]
S’OK. Hunter’s going to make those unconstitutional.
Plus there’s nothing to stop them from getting ’em the old fashioned way.
Military age men, I’ll bet.
Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” And I have that on good authority.
[Via Steven H]
NICS CHECKS TOP 680,000 FOR ‘BLACK FRIDAY’ WEEK [More]
Wake me when somebody tabulates changed votes. (NSFW!)
[Via Jess]
IMPACTS OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS’ EXTREME CR…Nearly 70 fewer Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents, who are often some of the first federal law enforcement on the scene of a mass shooting to help local law enforcement identify at-large shooters—and 13 furlough days for ATF’s entire workforce [More]
Cutting 800 Border agents sounds bad, but they don’t let them guard the border anyway. A lot of the other stuff is Marxist wealth redistribution…
Watch them use the reduction in FBI personnel to try to delay NICS approvals and then work around the 3-day background check timeout to retroactively go after transfers…
[Via Jess]
For whatever reason I could not get my video to work so had to call in by phone. After I was finally able to get through I thought we had a pretty good discussion. [Watch]
I’ll be joining Virginia Citizens Defense League this evening at 8:00 Eastern for their monthly live broadcast. We’ll be talking about prior restraint infringement injustices built into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and more.
It can be viewed at VCDL.Tube and Facebook.com/VCDLorg/.
It’s either that or Shark Tank and Real Housewives of Atlanta…
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]
“Don’t Lie” is a cooperative program between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and NSSF. [More]
So if a trusted friend or relative is a “prohibited person” because they ran afoul of some unconstitutional citizen disarmament edict, or have been “red flagged” and disenfranchised without due process, the industry “solution” is to turn your back on him? Sounds like fascism in action to me.
If someone has been proven a truly dangerous character, why would they be anyplace they could receive a gun — from any source? We all know what prior restraint “background checks” enable, and how that will be exploited once Democrats have the votes. And since when is the mantra that “gun control” works?
Every time I see NSSF bragging about licking jackboots, kapos and drivers come to mind.
Mentally Ill Reddit Transvestites Are Openly Organizing Illegal Straw Purchases of Guns [Watch]
NSFW, but the guy has a way of saying things.
You know there are people in power against you being armed who don’t want this stopped and who want something bad to happen that they will then exploit.
[Via CP]
Republican Rep. asks ATF if lying on their federal Background check is illegal.
ATF: “Yes. 15 years in jail if you do that.”
Republican Rep. Tiffany: “So why is Hunter Biden not in Prison?” [Watch]
Why isn’t everyone aiding and abetting his commission of a felony?
FBI gun retrieval orders from failed background checks hits historic high: report [More]
You gotta wonder if this is a ploy to extend the three-business day rule to “indefinitely.”
Now the latest background check data shows the gun-buying craze wanes, though it remains elevated. [More]
The noobs, I kind of get if they’re young.
As for the old hands, I guess I don’t understand how creating a record of buying something you’re afraid is going to be banned is supposed to work.
[Via bondmen]
DHS Did Not Consistently Comply with National Instant Criminal Background Check System Requirements…DHS has more than 6.4 million incomplete NICS records… [More]
And what happens when we don’t comply with their rules?
Still, maybe we’ve got registration all wrong and the safest place for gun records is with the government…
[Via Jess]
Received via email:
Noted this recent news item:
“Numbers released Monday show that the FBI ran 192,749 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks on Black Friday 2022.” (and 711,372 total for the week) — Did not include the number rejected and I don’t expect to ever see a final tally of justified rejections vs. approved on reexamination.
[Via Lane]
St. Louis school shooter may have used gun that police confiscated months ago… Officers removed the gun from the home and gave it to a unnamed adult, he said. [More]
Flesh out how they completed the transfer.
UPDATE
The family “worked with our department to transfer that to an adult who could legally possess one,” Sack said. The firearm was ultimately transferred to a third party known to the family. [More]
OK, so can we expect an arrest?
And should we title this “Another Red Flag Success”?
[Via Jess]
[Watch]
Thanks, NSSF! What could go wrong?
How does all this fit in with “a historical understanding,” again…?
[Via Jess]
Thus, pursuant to 34 U.S.C. § 40901(e)(1)(D), we hereby notify you, and thereby make you “aware” that the “basis” on which signers of the NICS Indices Self-Submission Form have been reported to NICS “does not apply.” Thus, pursuant to you your duties under the statute, we respectfully request that the FBI: (i) identify and “remove” records from its “database” relating to those who have signed the FBI form; (ii) that the FBI (under the authority of the Attorney General) “remove” the offending records from the NICS system;4 and (iii) that the FBI halt its use of the illegal and unconstitutional NICS Indices Self-Submission Form. [More]
Funny, how the form doesn’t include a Miranda warning that anything they sign can and will be used against them in a court of law and that they have a right to an attorney. The workaround appears to be that the signers haven’t been convicted or “adjudicated” of anything (yet).
You’d think the FixNICSers would be focused on industry customers being tyrannized and coerced instead of cheerleading registration-enabling prior restraints imposed by their “partners.”
Any bets on getting the requested reply in 30 days, or do Christopher Wray et al. figure as long as Democrats control things there’s no danger of personal repercussions, they have an inexhaustible legal war chest at their disposal, and if the Republicans do manage not to blow it, the “leadership” won’t pursue things thoroughly enough to actually punish anyone?
Or will they get right on it as soon as the frog march Hunter Biden for lying twice?
