Last year, Rare Breed Triggers introduced their FRT-15 trigger. It’s an innovative device that helps the user of an AR-pattern firearm to fire rapidly. Specifically, the sear forces a reset of the trigger without the operator having to release finger pressure from the trigger. Thus, you maintain pressure, the trigger resets with each shot, and the continuously applied finger pressure operates the trigger again. Clever.
Clever, until the ATF got around to deciding that bump-fire stocks are machineguns, thanks to the devious way they redefined “function of the trigger” really means operation of the finger.
How can the courts rule that “function of the trigger” means volitional movement of a finger? And yet, they have.
In correspondence with Rare Breed Triggers at the time, I wrote:
“I’ve just watched your Vimeo video about the FRT trigger. I must admit, as I watched the animation explaining the operation, all that went through my head was, “My god, they’ve invented the bump TRIGGER. The ATF is going to go nuts.”
The ATF did.
In the new, Trump-induced way of viewing the finger as a firearm component, the simple fact that you still had to manually operate the trigger, means squat. The ATF has classified the FRT-15 trigger as a machinegun.
I warned that the bump-fire precedent was dangerous. And got laughed at. It’s just about a silly toy that no one needs. It doesn’t have anything to do with my stuff. Folks didn’t want to die on “bump stock hill,” when they could put forth their resources towards more important things.
And bump-fire stocks got banned. Now it’s the FRT-15. I expect binary triggers — triggers that fire the firearm on both the pull and the reset — to be next.
Finally, as was attempted in Nevada, the ATF — having decided that bump-fire stocks, forced reset triggers, binary triggers, drop-in autosears, and lightning links are so simple to install in AR-platform firearms that the entire class is “easily converted into machineguns. Meaning they are machineguns, and So sorry; you didn’t register those machineguns before May 1986, so they’re banned. Turn ’em in or go to prison.
Don’t expect to be offered compensation either. That was another bump-fire precedent. We aren’t going to compensate owners who broke the — newly redefined — law.
I’ve been accused of nitpicking, for worrying about obscure rules, laws, and judicial rulings. This is why I do that.
Mexico sues US gun manufacturers over arms trafficking toll
The Mexican government sued United States gun manufacturers and distributors Wednesday in U.S. federal court, arguing that their negligent and illegal commercial practices have unleashed tremendous bloodshed in Mexico.
The unusual lawsuit was filed in U.S. federal court in Boston. Among those being sued are some of the biggest names in guns, including: Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc.; Barret Firearms Manufacturing, Inc.; Beretta U.S.A. Corp.; Colt’s Manufacturing Company LLC, and Glock Inc. Another defendant is Interstate Arms, a Boston-area wholesaler that sells guns from all but one of the named manufacturers to dealers around the U.S.
It appears some of those outfits being sued are suppliers for the Mexican army and police. I suggest those manufacturers go all Ronnie Barrett, and stop selling or servicing weapons for Mexico. Barrett itself may be inclined to do so since Mexico uses their .50 BMG platform.
I think Mexico’s time and money would be better spent at home, cracking down on cartels like Los Zetas, which has been armed and equipped — not to mention staffed — by the Mexican army;they are after the smugglers and unlawful users of the weapons. Hey, Mexico could sue their army for trafficking guns to cartels.
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act should put a stop to this suit but as that report notes, activist judges have begun gutting it. This suit was filed in federal court in Boston, so I don’t expect good things.
When I was a kid, the idea of recycling became popular. Mind you our elders had been doing recycling for years. Taking parts from one piece of equipment and using it on another, re-purposing things for jobs that they were never intended, but they made it work. I’m blessed, I had grandparents and parents that were really good at it. They didn’t lecture, they just did it and we learned. In the 70s it became trendy though. Now I’m not in favor of littering or anything else like that, I think recycling is great. My point is that we were doing it long before the government saved us by making it trendy or mandatory.
Some things are great for recycling, soda bottles, hand me down clothes, car parts, old wheelbarrows for flower gardens or strawberries. The limit is creativity. Some things however stunk the first time around, and yet are being recycled. Politicians for example.
Claire McCaskill- Air-Claire ran as a moderate for the Senate from Missouri. Complete with June Cleaver pearl necklace and sweater set she convinced ill informed Missourians she was a moderate. She and the hoplophobic Robin Carnahan tried to hold a rally at a gun shop to convince people they weren’t anti gun. Had people read Missouri Weapons and Self-Defense Law by Kevin Jamison, they would have known when a prosecutor lies openly and says any 12 year old can walk into a gun shop and buy and Uzi she is not honest, and not on your side. Happily some Second Amendment people tipped off the gun shop, who should have known better, and the even was canceled.
Even back then the MSM aka #FakeNews was so biased she was never challenged on it. Well, Air-Claire (all sorts of good articles to choose from there) wants to be relevant again. But to be relevant in today’s Democrat-Socialist party, you have to be for tyranny and against the American people. Claire wants to prove she can fit right in.
If you needed a reminder why the citizens of Missouri refused to re-elect the incompetent, intellectually limited Clair McCaskill, she provided it today. Here’s the headline from the NY Post:…
I had to double-check that this was not a new piece of satire from the Babylon Bee. Nope. I looked at my calendar fearing it was April 1st and this was a lame attempt at macabre humor. Double no.
Here’s what she said:“Joe I have one word: Benghazi. Benghazi had in the House alone six investigations,” the Missouri Democrat told MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. “If you compare and contrast, I don’t want to minimize the loss of life in Benghazi or the problems around the security of those locations, but lets compare and contrast those two events and which is more foundation shaking to our democracy.”
Nope, it’s not the Babylon Bee, The Onion or any other satire blog. It’s not even me being snarky.
Most families have their own holiday traditions on 4th of July. Normally, they involve fireworks, cookouts, swimming pools, and maybe watching a movie like Independence Day, The Patriot, or Jaws.
But the McCaskill family is apparently about to start a new and disturbing tradition.
Just listen to the former senator tell MSNBC what her family has planned for this Independence Day:
“We’re going to start a new family tradition in my family; on the Fourth of July and every Fourth of July going forward, we’re going to watch that New York Times put together of January 6th.”
So, Air-Claire finds watching a bunch of antifa dress up like normal Americans create havoc and then change back into their antifa black cool? Meanwhile normal Americans are just walking around in the Capitol or in the Capitol but destroying or burning nothing and then have their lives ruined something enjoyable? Apparently that’s the mindset needed to be in the “in crowd” in the Democrat-Socialist party today.
Even a small group of Republicans trying to find out what is happening to these prisoners was disrupted by leftist operatives. No free speech for sure.
“I’m going to try and download every movie ever made, and you’re going to try to sign up for Obamacare, and we’ll see which happens first” – Jon Stewart challenging Kathleen Sebelius (former Secretary of Health and Human Services) to a race.
So having proven how adept she is at forcing Americans into something they don’t want, she longs to stretch her little tyrant wings again.
….I think that it’s time to say to those folks, it’s fine. If you don’t choose to get vaccinated, you may not come to work. You may not have access to a situation where you’re going to put my grandchildren in jeopardy where you might kill them or you might put them in a situation where they’re going to carry the virus to someone in a high risk position.
That’s, I think, the point where we are is freedom is one thing, but freedom when you harm others like secondhand smoke and issues that we’ve dealt with very clearly in the past, you can’t drive drunk. You can drink but you can’t drive drunk because you can injure other people. You can’t smoke inside of a public place where you can give cancer to someone else in spite of their never having been a smoker.
So I think we’re reaching that point in the United States for those of us who are vaccinated. I want to take off my mask. I want to be able to live my life with vaccination. And I’m being impinged on by people who say, I don’t want to get vaccinated. It’s fine, but I want them to maybe have a limitation on where they can go and who they can possibly infect.
But Kathleen! You favor abortion, what happened to “My body, my choice”?? Typical Democrat-Socialist hypocrisy.
Recycle fail.
Critical Race Theory-While it’s new to American school children who’s horrified parents are finding out the reason Johnny can’t do math and Janie can’t read is because rather than useful skills that will equip them to live lives as productive American citizens they are instead being taught your skin color determines everything and you should hate people of different colors. The reason of course is different depending on your skin color. Racist much? I’m happy to see parents of all colors and ethnic backgrounds are standing up to the race-baiting tyrants on school boards trying to shove this down the throats of children along with the gender identity agenda. But if you want to see the endgame of CRT, look to South Africa. I’ve written about the on-going genocide in South Africa before. It’s not better, it’s worse, made worse by the Wuhan Flu lockdowns that only kept the flu around longer. Now they face looting in which the police take part, think New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and racial attacks on the white farmers. Farm land has been taken away from the white farmers and given to people who know nothing about farming, and aren’t farming it. So rather than having enough food to export, they don’t even have enough for themselves and there is no reason to think it will get better.
Opposition leaders questioned the government response, which had called up 70.000 soldiers to enforce COVID lockdowns, but only 2.500 largely ineffective troops to fight the largest insurrection in South Africa since the end of Apartheid 1994. Videos showed police letting looters escape or participating in looting themselves.
The African National Congress is urging towards a politically motivated disarmament programme. Tightening up on Gun Control Legislation, law-abiding citizens are fearing their inability to protect themselves against the alarming crime rates in South Africa. Rape is a reality. Killing has become a causality. And our means of self-protection is slowly but surely, becoming prohibited…
Socialism>Communism- Socialism which becomes Communism because people figure out living under socialism sucks regardless of what AOC, her college professor, anyone’s college professor, the MSM aka #FakeNews any gullible soul still trusting the #FakeNews says, it sucks. Eventually after it’s too late, people find out. When they try to rebel they catch a baseball bat upside the head. Or are just shot. Cubans were disarmed after the communists came to power.
These freedoms were lost for one reason and one reason only: A DISARMED POPULACE ISN’T FREE. THEY ARE SLAVES TO THE STATE.
And if anyone had any doubts about BLM and what they really are, that time should be over. BLM came out in support of the Cuban dictator killing their citizens.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) issued a statement condemning the US federal government, not Cuba’s communist regime, over its “inhumane treatment” of the Cuban people. Pro-freedom demonstrations have been ongoing on the island nation since Sunday.
The official Black Lives Matter account has posted a statement reaffirming its support of Cuba’s communist regime just as mass anti-government protests are breaking out in the island. BLM also again expressed gratitude for Cuba giving asylum to convicted murderer Assata Shakur
Well, of course they do! They told people they were trained Marxists.
BLM urged the Biden administration to lift the economic sanctions against the tiny island nation of 11 million residents, claiming that these trade concerns were causing unrest.
“Since 1962,” they write, “the United States has forced pain and suffering on the people of Cuba by cutting off food, medicine and supplies, costing… [them] an estimated $130 billion.”
These people are not the brightest crayons in the box, or they think everyone is as gullible as AOC. We aren’t.
Countries where socialism/communism are in place are not known for their healthy vibrant happy middle class. Because there isn’t one. And now they want to try those failed ideas in America by enacting a communist coup.
They are known for their abuse and unjust confinement of citizens who are then tortured. Just like the people who have been locked up since January 6th. Heavily armed men showed up at their homes, families were forced outside at gunpoint in night clothes in 45 degree weather for hours. People that were only walking around the capitol, or in the capitol. None of them have been accused of anything of the magnitude of BLM or antifa. They are being kept in solitary confinement, beaten (so far I hear one has lost an eye) tortured, one hour of turn out a day, no bail, and trials not until next year. Does anyone think President Trump would have allowed any American citizen, regardless of their political affiliation to be treated like this? I don’t. Yet the MSM aka #FakeNews and the rabid left, but I repeat myself, babbled on and on about how President Trump was a fascist. Idiots. There is a Telegram group where Professor David Clements highlights one a day. Most have lost their jobs and businesses as well leaving their families in an awful state.
I’ve heard of the pattern before, in the past. It sounds a bit families to me anyway.
Recycle fail.
Anti-Semitism. I’m not exactly sure why someone thought that sending me a link to a rabidly anti-Semitic website was a good idea. I’m kind of offended, it doesn’t even have any new or creative anti-Semitic lies, just the same old tired ones. Der Sturmer recycles. Actually I think some of them may have come from Der Sturmer. I saw copies of it when I was at Yad Vashem. I’m not giving you the link. Nope, no traffic from me. But you would think that an inquiring mind might be a bit curious about someone who is purporting that we sacrifice children and drink their blood. Yes, we eat meat (ok, I don’t but that has nothing to do with this) but do Jews eat a rare steak?
Would it be kosher to eat a steak that is cooked medium-rare? I ask because it seems that there is still blood that comes out of the meat when cooked like this. Should steak be “well done”?
Answer:
The laws of kashrut require the extraction and drainage of all blood from beef or fowl within 72 hours of slaughtering. This is accomplished through a unique soaking and salting process—or, in some instances, through broiling.
The reddish liquid that remains inside the meat after this procedure is not halachically considered blood; it is the meat’s “juice,” and is 100% kosher.
Today, kosher meat is sold with the blood already removed. Therefore, if dining in a kosher restaurant, or if you bought your meat at a reliable kosher butcher, you can confidently eat your medium-rare steak.
So if we don’t even eat a rare steak because of the blood, why on earth would you think we are killing and draining a young woman for a sacrifice?
Then there is the tired old blood of non-Jewish children in Matzah. Guess what?! For reasons we won’t go into, I still have my box that my Pesach Matzah came in! It is Kosher and from Israel. Double threat what hey! So good news, let’s take a look shall we?
Actual box of Kosher for Pesach Matzah! From actual Israel!Ingredients in box of Kosher for Pesach matzah 2021
Blood? Nope, no blood. And it’s Kosher and everything!
Of course there is the obligatory Jews going to rule the world tripe. But honestly, my favorite answer to this is one my fellow writer Y.B. gave a few years ago.
But it would take wayyyy too long to run a check on the a$$bat that wrote the web site. It took about 5 seconds to find out the guy is such a raving moonbat that even though he completed law school he was denied a license to practice law because he was so flipping unhinged. Yeah, boy howdy that’s who I’m going to take as a solid source about my faith. What a load of cow shiff. But I guess if you tend to believe like the AOC, Tliar, and Omar crowd, your beliefs fit right in with theirs. So, I guess I would wonder if they have typically found their opinions to agree with them? Have they honestly found them to be truthful? Or do you just hate Jews.
This is not a new pattern, Julius Streicher used it to great effect, and now today’s Democrat-Socialists are using it. Shutting down the free speech (of one side), government spying (of one side) unjust imprisonment (of one side) abuse and torture while in captivity (of one side). The Der Sturmer media is reprising it’s role as well with it’s constant vilification of conservatives, and covering up for Xiden on the other hand. Initially the German people wanted nothing to do with hitler’s anti-Semitic lunacy, but the constant dripping of it from their free government volks radios, and the Shiff that was published in Der Sturmer and the people began to change. The disarmament of the populace (of one side)
A repeat of a pattern that never needs to be repeated. But, I take comfort in knowing Streicher was hanged. He facilitated the loss of many Jewish, lives with his lies. Many from other ethnic groups were killed as well, but Streicher didn’t target them.
The Ten Stages of Genocide
Recycle fail.
But what I wish we could recycle? The brilliance of Jackie Mason, The Ultimate Jew. Brad Alpert Z”L, may his memory be for a blessing, urged me to listen to some Jackie Mason YouTubes. Fabulous! We lost Jackie Mason Z”L this weekend. A huge loss. So I will leave you with this Jackie Mason clip on gun control. Warning, there are some naughty words in it…..just FYI.
Recycle score? Another Jackie Mason would be a winner!
I have little doubt that readers have heard about the 58 Texas Dim-ocrats would boarded a private aircraft, and fled the state in order to break the legislative quorum to avoid passing honest election laws. If not, you should read up on it, because it just got interesting.
to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.
How many of the Dims own guns?
Add ’em to NICS. I’m sure that those pro-victim disarmament Dims will be cool with it.
I emailed Texas Governor Abbott and Speaker of the House Phelan to bring this point to their attention. If you would also like to reinforce the point, you may contact Gov. Abbott HERE and Rep. Phelan HERE.
You know, sometimes you just can’t tell the difference between reality and the Babylon Bee. So I think I’ll take a swing at some creative writing.
Dateline: Washington DC
As Joe Biden’s handlers sorrowfully regarded his plummeting poll numbers they considered their options. In the next room they could hear Kamala cackling as she considered her next trip to the border via New Orleans for some gumbo. A shiver ran through the room as they realized their limited options. Joe sat next to the fireplace with his pants leg pulled up showing his minder for the hour his hairy legs and asked his female secret service agent if she wouldn’t come a little closer. She vehemently shook her head no and said “You’re fine where you are, as am I”. He asked if there were some little girls with barrettes in their hair coming later to visit, the agent looked pained and replied “NO”! She looked pointedly at the agent next to her covering a grin and said “When is Jill supposed to be back”? The agent tried manfully to cover a chuckle and said “She’ll be back from getting her legs waxed in a couple of hours. She didn’t want a repeat of that no hose, visible band-aid on the leg thing like when they were photographed with the queen”.
“There’s GOT to be something” whimpered Susan Rice, maybe we should call Barry?
“Nope, no need” chimed in Fredo Cuomo “I know the perfect issue! It’s always a winner with all the American people!” Everyone looked hopefully at Cuomo. “GUN CONTROL” He crowed triumphantly! “Remember how popular Eric Swalwell and Bozo O’Rourk were with the American people? Why when Duke Nukem threatened to use nuclear weapons on American citizens everyone all across America just fell in love with him! Everyone in the newsroom loved him! All my friends thought he was a shoe in! I don’t know anyone that didn’t think he had a perfectly reasonable idea. Oh I heard some of those mouth-breathers in flyover made some noise, but who cares about them. They are a tiny minority! I mean look at it, the guy was sleeping with a Chinese spy and he’s still on the intelligence committee. If that doesn’t show how highly he’s regarded, what could? Then Bozo was so manly when he flat out told people he was going to take their AK-47s and AR-15s.” I think we could use that to show how in control Joe is. That would show people he really knows how to wield power, who care if they find out we cheated in Maricopa, and Georgia, and Pennsylvania, and Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and Nevada and” Susan Rice broke in “We know Fredo, we all know”. Well sniffed Fredo offendedly, “I’m telling you the only reason Eric didn’t win the nomination was his huge percentage started shriveling when that mean old Bear at The Zelman Partisans started writing about him. Everyone loved him!”
Kamala who had snuck unseen into the room chimed in “Gun control? Don’t you think the media might start to raise questions about Hunter and his gun?” Fredo glared witheringly at her and said “Of course not! What is the matter with you?” Kamala cackled nervously and shot back, “Well, it’s a real issue and a real problem! He probably can’t keep this up much longer” Fredo looked at her in astonishment and said “Of course he can! We’ve got his back”. Susan looked patronizingly at Kamala and said “Are you planning on visiting Disney World on your way to visit the border via New Orleans Kamala dear?” Kamala got her deer in headlights look, cackled “FLORIDA?? You mean go into De Santis territory? No, I think I’ll go to Virginia and look for root causes of ….something, I’ll think of something” and slunk out of the room.
Susan and Fredo mulled over the gun control angle. “Well, Joe is making a name for himself, look at the fabulous guy he pretended he nominated for the head of the ATF. All the senators are so impressed with him, they all love him!” Susan mused. And with the good help you guys have given him Fredo, Americans now see how deadly those assault rifles are.
Sadly for Chipman and the Communists, Americans aren’t stupid, or unskilled. So, the BATFE didn’t give Chipman a automatic weapon? Interesting.
And so a speech was whipped up for Joe while he took a long nap. He was then trotted out for the cameras and promised a nice ice cream cone if he did a good job.
As normal sane Americans listened to this, they wondered if perhaps Eric Swalwell had taken a break from sharing National security secrets with spies from enemy countries to take up speech writing for Beijing Xiden.
Predictably news outlets more reliable than the NY Slimes (which would include this column) immediately came out with notices of sales and family shopping trips to their local armory and airfield.
Palpatine was also dismissive of the idea that people need blasters in case they have to overthrow the Empire if it turns tyrannical. “It’s just a ridiculous idea that a rebellion armed with blasters could do anything about us,” he said. “You’d need your own armored, planet-destroying superweapon to match the strength of our Death Star. Even if you had X-Wings, what could they do but scratch its surface? Abandon all hope to rise against us! Abandon!”
In a bit of exciting news for firearms enthusiasts and those who wish to deter their government from becoming tyrannical, Bass Pro Shops has announced that its semi-annual 2-for-1 nuke sale will be kicking off this weekend. Every nuclear weapon in the company’s arsenal will be completely free with the purchase of any other nuclear weapon.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a speech yesterday, President Joe Biden made a compelling and powerful argument in defense of the Second Amendment. The president ranted on and on about how if people were to rebel against his iron-fisted rule, he would nuke them and send F-15 fighter jets to attack them in their homes. These statements alone were enough to convince millions of Americans the Second Amendment is still desperately needed to protect their natural right to defend themselves.
The nation scrambled to buy F-15s and nuclear weapons after President Biden said in a speech Wednesday that you’ll never beat a government unless you have the fighter jets and intercontinental ballistic missiles.
All over the nation, American citizens were seen parking their brand-new F-15s in their driveways and garages. Some wealthier Americans purchased the F-22, while less fortunate citizens were forced to buy the F-35 joint fighter. But no matter what craft they chose, American citizens said they were just glad to finally be protected against a tyrannical government.
Family Shopping Trip
Personally, I have a email in to Israel to see about a home version of the Iron Dome. I knew I should have bought that Centurion tank when I had the chance!
At this point Nancy Pelosi tottered in on her high heels, “Don’t you mess with my commission!” She screeched. Susan Rice glared at her and said “OUT! Do you want me to call AOC?” The painted on color drained out of Pelosi’s face and she wheeled about and tottered back out of the room without a word, repeatable.
As the cabal congratulated themselves on having undoubtedly pumped up Joe’s poll numbers, they also savored the fact they had threatened him sufficiently to pretty much stay on topic.
Joe, you already are in trouble with the American people. With or without your mask, we see you and your cronies for what you are.
It channels the tax stamp revenue to the DOJ and ATF so they can fund “gun violence prevention initiatives.” That sounds like grants to Demanding Mommies and whatevername Brady is using this month (honestly, I can’t keep up).
I’d give this one a fifty-fifty chance of passage. Law ‘n order Republicans might just roll over on tax stamps.
There are twelve states, and the District of Calamity, that require any sort of license to purchase or possess a firearm. And, generally speaking, the things that get a license revoked are usually things that make one a prohibited person anyway. Ditto with court orders to not possess guns. HR 2426 is basically a redundant waste of taxpayer-funded time and money.
This bill I give a 70% chance of passage. Again, the law ‘n order Republicans will tend to like preventing criminals getting guns, and some will support as a dickering tool, since they’ll largely see it as redundant.
Then again, I suppose I might have underestimated Raskin’s intelligence. He could have filed it as an expendable bill that the Dims can sacrifice in a pretend-compromise.
When I was young, Polish jokes were the rage. Every country has their own style of jokes along the same lines, in Ireland around the same time I believe it was Kerry man jokes, about County Kerry. And then there is Chelm. Top 10 Jokes about Chelm https://www.aish.com/j/fs/Top-10-Jokes-about-Chelm.html
But of late it’s been some of those from Poland that have been some lions at the forefront of the coming battle. And I do believe we are headed for one. The signs aren’t hard to see that danger looms. Holocaust Remembrance Day this year suddenly became “Climate Day”, with no mention of the oddity by the lame stream media. Odd Kamala’s Jewish husband didn’t mention it. Seems a bit tone deaf.
In another display of “I forgot to remember” for the Biden Regime Yom HaShoah this year ended on Thursday, April 8th at sun down. “Day of Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance“. As in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. As in that’s the day Beijing Biden’s handlers decide to trot him out to tell us “No right is absolute”. And since in communism that includes the right to life, regardless of the age of the human, I suppose that’s another one of those things he tells us without really meaning to.
And if Jews had any doubts as to the Communist/Democrats sentiments towards them, I should think that Biden and his gun control lies that spewed forth today put paid to that. https://townhall.com/columnists/johnrlottjr/2021/04/08/bidens-many-false-claims-on-gun-violence-n2587609
The beauty of being a communist is the media is your propaganda arm so you just have to be close “enough for government work”, as my Dad used to say, in your statements, actions and such. But once in a while the D/Cs (Democrat/Communists) tell such a whopper even “Circle-Back Psaki” has to circle back so fast you kind of wonder if she ever tips over.
So we have Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah, and Biden’s handlers are starting to gear up by appointing this bit of floatsom as head of the ATF, or as Beijing Biden called it, the AFT. I believe Tucker Carlson lays out what Beijing’s handlers have chosen.
Sometimes I wonder if people really believed their Unions when they were told to vote for Biden as him really wanting to confiscate guns was just a right wing talking point.
The thing about some of these people from Poland is they know what living under a tyrannical government is like. They’ve seen this movie.
In America we have Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, a Polish immigrant who owns a bistro and has run afoul of “Jackboots” Whitmer and Dana Nessel who both have their panties in a twist because someone they view as a peasant who dares to try to save her business and support herself defied them! THEM! How DARE she!
And perhaps saving the best for last, a Polish priest who ran the gestapo out of his church.
And the little Aryan blonde just keeps talking, she can’t conceive that someone that is suppose to be afraid of her is standing up to her tyrannical little lecture. And she just keeps blathering on and on. But she was dressed very fitting. Did you notice she was wearing a modern day version of the jackboots? Oh yes she was!
These Poles that have come out of communism know it when they see it, and it is no laughing matter. They are refusing to be cowed down. That mindset is key. We just had Pesach, Passover and in my Haggadah the are some things other than the Sedar service. One of them is a little section on how the Jews became slaves in the first place. Through a trick. The Jews had become very numerous, and the Egyptian Communists feared them. Ooops, just Egyptians. They came up with a building project that all good Egyptians would want to participate in, it was their patriotic duty to take the experimental injection sorry wrong column, help with the building project. In the beginning everyone showed up and worked, but shortly it was only Jews who showed up and they were no longer paid for their labor. Then they were greeted by armed taskmasters, and there was no longer any choice of being patriotic or not. You worked or else. And with the handy covid contract tracing they knew, oh sorry, again. Anyway, they knew where to find those who didn’t show up. But one thing I heard on a radio show, was talking about the slave mentality and that is a mindset we can not allow ourselves to sink into.
But for all the Democrat Communists declarations that the Conservatives are anti-Semitic, that is just one more of their lies. There are anti-Semites in any party, I’m sure. However the Biden regime has been sending some pretty clear signals with the changes to “climate day” and announcing his gun control scam on a day arguably made possible by German “common sense gun control”. That’s twice.
‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action’ ~~ Ian Fleming
As I told you earlier, the BidenHarris administration is planning more Second Amendment infringements. We now know more about the time frames.
The Justice Department, within 30 days, will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of “ghost guns.”
The Justice Department, within 60 days, will issue a proposed rule to make clear when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace effectively turns a pistol into a short-barreled rifle subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act.
The Justice Department, within 60 days, will publish model “red flag” legislation for states: Red flag laws allow family members or law enforcement to petition for a court order temporarily barring people in crisis from accessing firearms if they present a danger to themselves or others.
The first two will require Administrative Procedures Act rule-making with public commenting. The Zelman Partisans will provide links for comments when they are published. But why wait until then to prepare? Start working on comments now. I have some draft comments you may wish to work with.
Pistol Brace = Short Barrel Rifle
I expect them to dust off the same one they floated last year, so this may work:
The ATF has not presented any “objective factors” to determine whether a pistol-braced firearm is a pistol or short-barreled rifle.
No single factor or combination of factors is necessarily dispositive, and FATD examines each weapon holistically on a case-by-case basis.”
That is no more than fancy language for Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s infamous, “I know it when I see it.”
That statement would appear to leave us precisely where we are now: at the mercy of a proven arbitrary and capricious federal agency bound to infringe upon the Second Amendment. But it is really worse than that. By including “length of pull” in the “factors,” the ATF starts with the assumption that a braced firearm is a short-barreled rifle until and unless it is proven otherwise.
An objective definition of pistol brace would be: A device designed to aid a user in holding a large pistol with one hand, which extends no further than the user’s forearm when gripping the firearm normally, and which conforms to the user’s forearm.
“Ghost Gun” Unfinished Frames/Receivers
Rumors of this circulated last month, so I’ll draw upon my remarks then for potential commenting:
I object to the classification of unfinished parts as firearms.
Per 18 U.S. Code § 921(a)(3) The term “firearm” means (A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; (B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon; (C) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or (D) any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.
Per 27 CFR § 478.1 Firearm frame or receiver. That part of a firearm which provides housing for the hammer, bolt or breechblock, and firing mechanism, and which is usually threaded at its forward portion to receive the barrel.
Taking the AR-pattern lower “receiver” as an example: , that does provide housing for the trigger group and hammer. But note the lack of the rest of the firing mechanism, the firing pin. That goes in the upper, which is not considered a firearm. No does the lower house the bolt/breechblock. It doesn’t even have an attach point for the barrel. One characteristic out of four magically makes it a “firearm.” Federal courts have taken note of this, and dismissed firearm possession charges against those who had unassembled lowers.
An UNFINISHED frame or receiver doesn’t provide housing for any component, nor does it have a barrel attach point. That is WHY it is unfinished.
If you administratively enact this proposed rule, you will open up the can of worms that is most semiautomatic pistol frames: no bolt or breechblock, no barrel attach point, no firing pin or striker. Under current law, most unassembled semiautomatic pistols are not “firearms,” and we will take the point to court as part of demonstrating why your proposed rule on unfinished parts fails to meet legal definitions.
Model Red Flag Law
This amounts to a “white paper,”s o doesn’t get a rule-making process. But sending the Attorney General some remarks… well, won’t really do any good, but it can’t hurt.
The state of Florida enacted a “red flag” law on March 9, 2018 in response to the Parkland school shooting. It has proven ineffective.
For two years prior to enactment, Florida’s homicide rate was in decline. Its suicide rate was flat.
In the first year after passage, both homicide and suicide rates increased; dramatically so in the case of suicides. Two years after passage both rates are still above pre-“red flag” rates.
If correlation were causation, we would be forced to consider “red flag” laws as equally dangerous to rights AND lives.
The Justice Department, within 30 days, will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of “ghost guns.”
It will be interesting to see how they intend to do this. Redefine unfinished frames/receivers as “firearms”? They already have a problem with finished lowers. Not to mention semi-auto pistol frames.
The Justice Department, within 60 days, will issue a proposed rule to make clear when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace effectively turns a pistol into a short-barreled rifle subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act.
I make odds of three-to-one that the proposed rule will be virtually identical to the last attempt, with all the flaws intact. Basically, It’s a short-barreled rifle if we say so.
The Justice Department, within 60 days, will publish model “red flag” legislation for states.
I wonder if they’ve found some ways to prevent the “Florida Effect,” where homicides and suicides both went up after passage of a “red flag” law.
The Administration is investing in evidence-based community violence interventions.
Even the “details” of this are so vague that it’s hard to say exactly what they mean. Other than it looks like pork for Dimocrat social justice weasels. I have a better idea; a simple three step plan.
The Justice Department will issue an annual report on firearms trafficking.
Frankly, all of this is old, recycled fails. I’m a little surprised at the lack of imagination in Gropin’ Joe’s puppeteers. Just off the top of my head, I came up with four things they could do, without any new legislation, that would disrupt all commercial sales. Three would require publication in the Federal Register, and one wouldn’t need even that. For obvious reasons — I know that congresscritters read my columns — I’m not publicizing them. But if Mo Brookss staffer want to talk about how to prevent them, they know how to reach me.
As the suit says, Monroe County is suing IFC and a county resident. Specifically, the suit is over a Chief Justice order barring firearms from court houses, and a state law that says if you do that, you must provide security. I jumped right into the filing because I really wondered how the heck the county was going to rationalize a claim against those defendants.
And… I don’t see a claim against them.
I need someone smarter than myself to explain this to me. The obvious unofficial backstory makes it clear that the county is maliciously targeting IFC and Thompson because they warned the county to comply with the law. But the only way the court filing addresses the official defendants is this.
STATEMENT OF THE IOWA FIREARMS COALATION (sic) AND MR. THOMPSON
30. Monroe County, Iowa has been advised by the Iowa Firearms Coalition that if it continues to comply with a lawful Order of the Iowa Supreme Court, that it will impose this unfunded mandate upon Monroe County, Iowa or that Monroe County, Iowa will be liable for this unfunded mandate plus attorney fees and other costs allowed by HF 2502. Monroe County, Iowa denied Mr. Thompson’s request.
31. No personal judgement is sought against Mr. Thompson.
WTF? There’s no actionable claim. They only say that IFC warned them they should comply with the law. Thompson gets no mention beyond that he made an unspecified — in the filing — request. Neither IFC’s nor Thompson’s warning/request is included in the filing. So even this vague soeta-claim is unsupported.
Other than that, the whole thing is a claim against the state for an unfunded mandate imposed by HF 2502. But even that is bogus. There’s no mandated expenditure; all they have to do is not declare a gun-free zone. If they choose to do that, then they voluntarily accept the expense. It would like Joe Blow calling vehicle registration fees an unfunded mandate; it isn’t because no one has to pay it unless they choose to buy a car.
This reads like a case against the state, and some office intern accidentally listed the wrong defendants. And even then, the alleged unfunded mandate would have been imposed by the Chief Justice who issued the gun-free order. Including IFC and Thompson has no point — legally; unofficially, it looks like retaliation for protected speech — but to make them pay for the county’s suit against the state.
OK, smarter people; what have I missed?
Statement from IFC Chairman Michael Ware:
“You just stated what our attorneys did as well. We have no idea what has motivated this action, but we seek to correct the injustice.”
The case may be BS, but IFC still needs to defend itself. Good attorneys are not cheap. You can help support IFC HERE.
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