Notes from the Resistance
As of this guide’s initial publish date, 80% lower receivers and frames are not considered as firearms by the ATF however they are not legal to ship directly to buyers residing in the District of Columbia. [More]
Not because ATF didn’t try, but it’s probably OK because my bet is they didn’t buy it.
[Via Andy M]
National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment (NFCTA): Protecting America from Trafficked Firearms – Volume Four [More]
That’s one way to describe imposing unconstitutional infringements using force of arms…
Dettlebach just can’t resist being an irritant for as long as he can.
So… what can/should we expect from the new guy?
[Via Antigone]
Cornyn and senators tell ATF director no new policies before Trump takes over [More]
They know any new rule will require a comment period extending into the new administration, which can kill it, but it’s a way to make gun owners think they’re doing something for them.
But enforce existing Intolerable Acts, right, Mr. Bipartisan Safer Communities Act?
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Cassidy, Cornyn, Hagerty, Colleagues Introduce Concealed-Carry Reciprocity Bill [More]
[Via Jess]
Grassroots activists want an ATF chief who adheres to the Second Amendment, and who “can tell the difference between the good guys and genuine bad guys. [More]
Well, as the most prominent name mentioned so far in “Gun Owners for Trump,” you’re in a unique position to influence that:
Gun rights leaders and legal scholars could be identified and nominated to analyze and prioritize bills, lawsuits, regulations, opportunities, and threats, to advise on judicial and other federal nominees, and to help educate the public. The Office would provide a way for the public to express their concerns and to offer ideas and suggestions, meaning gun owners would have a conduit.
No…?
Funny, still nothing on the news about this…
While there is not yet confirmation of this from official sources or the White House, Jared Yanis at Guns & Gadgets on YouTube shared a letter late yesterday allegedly from ATF Director Steve Dettlebach to President Joe Biden announcing his resignation effective January 18, 2025. [More]
Which brings a new dynamic into play…
[Via Jess]
These aren’t my words. These are theirs:
What am I saying, that bump stocks weren’t used?
Don’t kill the messenger, I’m just posting what ATF has said.
Dettelbach Dances Around Oversight Questions in Hearing Into ATF’s Killing of Bryan Malinowski [More]
Well, yeah. Answering directly, truthfully, and completely would not be a good look.
Although, truthfully, if Republicans, when in power, didn’t prosecute the JBTs over hundreds of dead Mexicans, what are the chances, if they don’t blow it in November, that they’ll strap ’em on over one airport administrator?
[Via Michael G]
That is why the week before that we promulgated a new rule to implement the bipartisan safer communities act and to at long last make it crystal clear that if you’re engaged in the business of dealing firearms for profit, there is no Gun Show Loophole and there never was. [Watch @ 11:24]
Did the poles just shift or something…?
[Via Jess/HT Langley Outdoors Academy]
ATF Director Displays Ignorance About Basic Firearm Topics During Pro Gun Control Segment [More]
And not just about guns, but about purpose, and about delegated powers, and about freedom.
[Via Kid Sister]
Related UPDATE
WATCH: Chris Bort—the acting chief of the ATF’s Firearms Ammunition Technology Division—struggled at disassembling a Glock style handgun during a made-for-tv scaremongering interview with Steven Dettelbach, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on CBS News. [More]
Some would call that carrying on a tradition.
[Via WiscoDave]
Maybe one of these days such letters will include “Who the hell do you think you are and under what legitimate Constitutionasl authority do you dare to even insert your subversive @$$ into private sales of arms between American citizens?” followed with an order to immediately surrender himself for trial.
[Via Jess]
Dettelbach, in the AP interview, declined to comment on the specifics of Card’s case, which an independent commission in Maine is investigating. But he said it is clear that the nation needs to make it harder for people “that everyone agrees should not have firearms, who the law says are not entitled to have firearms, to get them because it’s too easy to get them now.” [More]
It’s just that there’s this “due process” thing those who would rule us don’t want to have to follow…
[Via Jess]
Related UPDATE
Herer’s a first step in the right direction, but as long as they’ve got to be let out before they can be declared safe with certainty, expect plenty of lapses.
[Via Edmund M]
The prohibitionists want to sue dealers out of existence and are using spurious allegations parroted by their complicit media partners to add another con to their repertoire of rights swindles. [More]
Does anyone believe Steve Detttelbach’s ATF doesn’t welcome being sued and hasn’t been ordered to find a plausible way to take a dive?
We’re all about patterns here and when I see the ATF put out three different exposes against local, local and then national, one in Tulsa, one in DC, and now Steve Dettelbach on a national network, NBC around how ineffectual the NFA is because of giggle switches or Glock switches, there’s a hidden motive, I’m telling you, something’s up. [Watch]
Good catch.
Thing is, the NFA has always been ineffective.
[Via Jess]
ATF Director Calls for Universal Background Checks, Assault Weapons Ban at Harvard IOP Forum [More]
Then there’s this:
And then we scan them, right? But as far as I know, we are the only customer of Adobe Acrobat that actually pays extra money to have search capability taken out of that software.
I see some influencers treating this like a newly admitted database violation “Gotcha.” I must not be grokking something because this has been out there for years:
How can a database be “non-searchable”? Trick question: The system can’t really be considered a database. (There is a reason the ATF uses the phrase “data systems” instead). There is no ability to search the text of a file, and no effort is made to tag files with identifiers that could later be used to sort and search. “We compare it to an electronic card catalog system, where records are digitally imaged, but not optimized for character recognition,” ATF spokesman Corey Ray says.
Am I completely missing a point?
[Via William T]
“The flow of crime guns to those people. How are they being armed? Many of them are felons, people who the law says can’t have weapons yet there finding them anyway.” [More]
So the guy in charge admits what he’s doing isn’t working and his solution is to do more of it…?
And marvel at the way professional “Authorized Journalists” are not only subject matter ignorant but grade-schoolers with their stock-in-trade, the English language.
So much for the “tenants” of journalism…
[Via Jess]
A former investigator with the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is accused of trafficking weapons to Mexico while he was an employee of the bureau in 2017, according to a letter sent to the ATF Director this week by US Senator Charles Grassley. [More]
Jeez, another letter…?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
I went to Grassley’s “News Releases” page and didn’t see the letter. I asked him for a copy:
Anybody have a link?
I started an AmmoLand article on this but then found another writer was working on it. I’ll wait for that one to see if there’s anything substantive I can add.
[Via gbob]
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.
A Biden administration crackdown has reportedly resulted in hundreds of gun dealers losing their licenses which has sparked anger and the belief by the dealers that they are being targeted. [More]
ATF’s director “believes” the right to sell guns is a “privilege.”
[Via bondmen]
