Not long ago, very recently, in fact, a federal court was given the job of deciding whether or not bump stocks are machine guns. I could have told them, and it should not have ever been a problem deciding the case. Well, through the wisdom of the judge, and the ignorance and sloppiness of the BATFE, and the fact that a major case is now the law of the land, the Bruen decision, and the Gun Control Act of 1968, bump stocks are not, in fact machine guns. Told ‘ya so.
Also, not long ago, another federal court was charged, by the judge, in hearing about the topic of Texas and their Suppressors, made in Texas law, that passed in Texas, but just hurt the poor BATFE so much that they had to challenge that by sending a warning to all FFLs in Texas, that this dog will not be hunting. The BATFE(minit mart, ATF, Gestapo, or anything you wish to call them) and the state of Texas have agreed to seek summary judgement on the issue. I can’t wait for this one. They sent a similar letter to Tennessee FFLs warning about the law, Tennessee Firearms Freedom Act. I was rather disappointed in our response to them over that threatening letter. Maybe that will get the endoscopy it deserves, some day.
Now, the BATFE(I’m so tired of them, aren’t you?) is about to release a rule, which was never made whole by the ones who are in charge of making rules whole: Congress. Pistol Braces being effectively short barreled rifles, if you don’t pass their “Criteria Factor” test. This gets funny if it wasn’t so sad, that the BATFE thinks it can rewrite law. AR and AK pistols, and certain other variants are also pistols, after the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was passed. That is effectively when we all learned we could make or buy our own versions of these types of pistols, and guess what? An earlier version of the BATFE agreed that these types of ARs were, in fact, pistols, according to the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Now, the BATFE, under the guidance and instruction of the sleepy President and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, have decided that, in the face of all their losses at the Supreme Court, and inferior courts, that they would go “all in” and start making up law, without the benefit of Congress weighing in. They are already losing every argument they make, so some might say, “Well, they are losing tax revenue”. Nope.
This is because of all the gun grabbing people still trying to force a lot of nonsense at us, which lines up with the goals of the tyrants in DC. The Pistol Brace is a device that threatens those pea brains so much, that they want them outlawed, one way or another. It is only a device that allows the safe and stable use of an AR pistol by someone who may be disabled. But, there was never any law or regulation that said one had to be disabled to purchase and use one. Pure and unadulterated tyranny.
There are several tricks the BATFE are trying to force people into submitting to a website they created that, if you went to and used, could immediately turn you into a felon, overnight, because this rule change, when it is officially announced, never passed anything by the Congress, and it is a pack of lies designed into entrap people into believing that the BATFE is some kind of noble and trustworthy federal agency, with all your best interest in mind. If you are dumb enough to believe that, I have some swamp land for sale in Washington DC, even including defaced and destroyed monuments. In other words, if you go and start to register your AR pistol, or other variant, take their imaginary game of choosing how you will instantly get on their list to arrest you and charge you, you really need to seek legal advice, because the entire thing is nothing more than a trap, since it has not been challenged, and your life will only see possibilities of three hots and a cot for the next ten years, plus a stuffy bunch of fines. Remember, I said that this never saw the light of day in the halls of Congress. That makes it an absolute infringement of the 2nd Amendment.
What is also funny and sad, at the same time, is that the ATF(pardon me for being lazy) knows they are putting a bluff on anyone they can entrap, and knows they are breaking the ridiculous gun laws they purport to be enforcing. I don’t know, but if I was a Supreme Court Justice, or any inferior federal judge, and this garbage kept ending up on my docket, I might just do anything I legally could do, to just end the ATF, because everything they try to do infringes on someone’s rights, when we already know how to read the 2nd Amendment.
Find me a piece of legislation, from 1791 or so, that slightly resembles gun control that would pass the test in the Bruen decision. You can’t, because it never existed. Public safety is now no longer part of the test, so that leaves the 2nd Amendment in pretty good shape, as far as I can tell, because the Supreme Court has ripped the gun controllers a good one. There is a rule adopted by the courts that is called the Rule of Lenity, which says that, in the case of ambiguity in a law, that law must be interpreted in the favor of the one seeking relief from the tentacles of that law. Chevron Deference does just the opposite, which means that Chevron gives the benefit of the doubt to the government. Chevron is buried six feet under, now. I believe it was a case involving the state of West Virginia versus the EPA that backfired on the government that undid that nonsense.
Do you remember the TV advertising, years ago, that went like ” This is your brain.” This is your brain on drugs”, with two pictures of eggs, one in the shell, the other scrambled? This a good representation of an out of control federal agency, who, not necessarily by drugs, but by tyrants, who think they need your guns, will turn around and go back on their previous understandings on what firearms are, and some not even firearms, trying to take them away, because they still think they can, because they are truly tyrants who need to be made to wear that yoke they want on your and my neck.
There is enough evidence in hand, that the BATFE should be made to be dissolved, and I think they have finally been given the rope that they will be hanged by, by their own stupidity, and lack of respect for the law abiding citizen.
I can’t wait to see how Justice Alito and Thomas, along with the rest of the originalist Justices deal with those traitors, because their day is coming. I believe I can already see that grin on Justice Thomas’s face. I love that guy. The BATFE doesn’t know it, but they are the dead men walking. That’s my prediction.
I also can’t wait until the day comes that you can own a machine gun without the federal government’s permission and taxation. If I am still alive, I will be knocking doors down to buy one. Just to buy it, maybe even shoot it. Because I can! There is also a lawsuit against the federal government about the Hughes Amendment, restricting the manufacture and sale of machine guns made after 1986, but I’ll watch that a bit more before I write on it.
Freedom means you also have a right and a duty to defend it. Remember that the next time some idiot news person tries to frame their news trash in the opposite vain, or some government bureaucracy tries to sell you down the road and enslaves you, because they will enslave us all, if we don’t stop them
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When I was on active duty 40 years ago we were having difficulty accounting for all of our M60 machine guns one afternoon (quickly resolved as a paperwork issue) when one of the sergeants working with me (an FFL holder) offered to pick me up a replacement for $2300 (including spare barrel and bag).
Ah, the good old days…
Those were the good old days.