Notes from the Resistance
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]
Biggs said one of the Fast and Furious guns has recently been used in a crime. Biggs didn’t provide details of this crime, but said the ATF is now questioning the firearms dealer from which the gun emanated. [More]
I wish he would provide details because I’ve been asked and it caught me flat-footed, although I’ve been away from that story, and my original sources have moved on or gone silent.
I will take exception to one characterization Biggs made:
“Botched.”
If you believe that, you’ve allowed yourself to be misdirected from the get-go.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steve Dettelbach was unable to define the term “assault weapon” during his agency’s Tuesday budget request hearing before a House Appropriations subcommittee. [More]
To channel Nancy, they have to pass the rule before they can tell you what it bans…?
And people can go to prison or be killed over it? How is this not the definition of tyranny?
[Via Jess]
Dettelbach on the work of the ATF [Watch]
Now there’s the kind of hard-hitting watchdog journalism on guns we’ve come to expect from The Washington Post!
It’s almost like they’re a volunteer public relations department…
[Via Jess]
I’d argue my headline is more accurate. [More]
In April 2022, the Department of Justice announced the “Frame or Receiver” final rule that modernizes the definition of a firearm.
Read “illegally changes.”
Some suppliers of partially complete frames or receivers appear to be attempting to willfully circumvent the rule…
We’re coming for you. And your customers. Prepare for the J6 and/or Waco treatment.
It may also include internet links to templates, jigs, molds, equipment, tools or other materials that enable ready completion or assembly of the unfinished frame or receiver into a firearm.
Why would we worry about the First Amendment now that we’ve neutralized the Second?
Anyone who observes suspected violations of the GCA or ATF’s implementing regulations may report them to ATF at https://www.atf.gov/atf-tips.
“¡En cada barrio, Revolución!“
I must remember to thank Rob Portman for his Dettelbach confirmation vote!
Reps. Jordan, Massie demand ATF director testify before House Judiciary Committee [More]
Sure, it’ll be nice to point out all his inconsistencies in the echo chamber on a relatively obscure issue most Americans don’t care about, but if Republicans couldn’t do anything about it when they had the majority and Eric Holder told them to go F*** themselves, what makes them think they will be able to do anything about it with the Dems in the majority?
ATF Director Steve Dettelbach talks about enforcing gun laws amid surge in mass shootings [More]
Funny. That’s the same thing so many of our “gun rights leaders” say we need to do.
And note this admission:
But at ATF, our job is to take the rules and laws that Congress has passed…
Yeah, about that…
And while we’re on the subject, perhaps someone will be good enough to point out where Congress is delegated with the authority to infringe…?
[Via Jess]
Jordan says the ghost gun rule “goes well beyond the authority granted to the agency in any applicable federal statutes,” and expands the legal definition of a firearm beyond what Congress intended. A prior letter from Jordan to ATF declared the rule “appears to be a deliberate attempt to usurp the authority of Congress,” and said it unconstitutionally infringes “on American citizens’ fundamental Second Amendment rights and privacy rights under the Fourth Amendment.” [More]
He’s right about the agency lacking authority. What I’ve yet to see is where Congress can legitimately claim it.
And I don’t see too many on “our side” talking about that.
[Via Jess]
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Defendants Merrick Garland, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; Steven Dettelbach, in his official capacity as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); the United States Department of Justice; and ATF hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from the Court’s Opinion & Order on Scope of Preliminary Injunction entered on October 1, 2022… [More]
Of course they’re not giving up on unconstitutionally claiming authority to impose frame or receiver infringements. They enjoy unlimited resources.
FPC has the entire case with filings and orders indexed for us.
[Via Jess]
In Productive Meeting, Adams Requests Doubling of ATF Agents in NYC, Enhanced Data Sharing, and Revocation of Polymer80 Firearms License [More]
I wonder if Tucker has started reexamining his assumptions yet…
[Via Jess]
Steven Dettelbach, the newly sworn-in director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said there is no overarching answer to solving the nation’s gun violence, even as guns have become the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. [More]
All by their own selves?
This is how it works: Step one, acquire statistics on firearm-related deaths among children ages 1-14. Step two, combine that relatively low number with the far greater number of firearm-related deaths involving juveniles and young adults ages 15-19, or even ages 15-24. Step three, present the resulting data as the shocking number of “children” (ages 1-19 or 1-24) who are subjected to “gun violence” each day/week/month/year. Step four, use the disingenuous statistic to advocate for pre-determined gun control policies.
Gee, it’s almost like the media are the enemy or something…
[Via Jess]
A Cincinnati man filed an elections complaint Friday against Democrat Steve Dettelbach, saying the candidate broke state law by raffling off a chance to meet former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. [More]
That’s one thing ATF needs: Continuity!
2018, eh? Anybody remember this coming up in the hearings and getting media notice?
Why not?
[Via Jess]
Invoked, 48-46: Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #1037 Steven M. Dettelbach to be Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
— Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) July 12, 2022
I understand the vote will be this afternoon and will update this accordingly.
UPDATE
