Yes, once again — as they did with the bump-fire stock NPRM and the “ghost gun/frame/receiver NPRM — the ATF published docket ATF 2021R-08, took comments, then deleted that docket, and opened newdocket ATF-2021-0002without the old comments. This appears to violate the Administrative Procedures Act. It also appears — due the regularity with which they do this — to be a deliberate attempt to discourage public comment on legally dubious proposed rules. The ATF publishes, the hardcore Second Amendment advocates rush to comment and publicize the NPRM so more people will comment…
And when they try, the publicized link is dead. Some will be sufficiently dedicated to search out the new docket. Others may assume the docket wasn’t real and never comment. Those who had commented may never check back (something TZP has learned to do), and discover their comments are gone; possibly never to be transferred over to the new docket.
But for now new docket ATF-2021-0002 is there. Please comment; be sure to click the “Opt to receive email confirmation” box so you get verification of your Comment Tracking Number. Bookmark the docket so you can can go back to check it (and your comment’s) status.
Comments are due by September 8, 2021.
The Zelman Partisans submitted this comment.
Comment Tracking Number: kpq-zrva-s2yf
The Zelman Partisans oppose this proposed rule.
This proposed rule is an incoherently expressed description of an arbitrary, capricious, and incoherent process of classifying firearms.
As no standards were given, a subjective examiner’s guesstimate of “rear surface area” could pass a brace, or put it right on the edge of alleged short-barreled rifle by itself. Will one examiner estimate the “rear surface area” of a cuff-type brace by the physical area of the rear EDGE of the cuff, while another goes by the area of the space ENCLOSED by the cuff?
“Length of pull” presupposes that all braced pistols are SBRs until proven otherwise. The restriction on brace length would make it a one-size-fits some piece of junk. A brace properly fitted for a large male would be unworkable for a smaller female. Defensive firearms are commonly purchased with shared use by family members in mind.
Also, it appears that the ATF is unaware of braced pistols that are not AR-type. The attachment evaluation assumes an AR-type buffer tube. The weight and overall length exclude the entire class of drop-in pistols braces, such as for Glocks. The rule is silent on those. Is the braced Glock automatically an SBR because it fail the 4999 Section tests? Or would the chassis resembling a carbine NEVER be a rifle?
And why would flip-up iron sights (which one might well want for storage and transport) make a pistol into a rifle?
Because the 4999 “test” requires that any specific pistol-brace combination be evaluated in whole, rather than evaluating the BRACE itself, none of the millions of owners of braced pistols currently in existence can know whether their equipment has the a ATF’s dubious blessing, or requires NFA registration. This proposed rule thus puts those millions in danger of unwitting felonhood. The only legal option is those MILLIONS to flood the The Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division with MILLIONS of firearms for evaluation, depriving them of their property for years as the FATD struggles with the backlog.
We think the ATF will need to go on a hiring spree, for examiners. And when MILLIONS of newly-annointed “short-barreled rifles” are created by fiat, the tax stamp backlog will be amazing.
Additionally, one should recall that braces were first designed for handicapped people. This proposed rule would appear to put the ATF in conflict with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Expect to be sued.
We think the Department of Justice will need to hire more lawyers.
This collection of follies could have been avoided by adopting a sane definition of stabilizing brace: “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.”
The Zelman Partisans also note that once again the ATF has violated the Administrative Procedures Act by opening docket 2021R-08, taking comments on that docket, DELETING it, and opening new docket ATF-2021-0002 without the old docket comments. The ATF does this on such a regular basis that we believe it is a deliberate attempt to discourage public comment on legally dubious proposed rules.
Today is the anniversary of D-day, a day that I believe counts as one of the defining moments of “The Greatest Generation”. And as a culture, we’ve sunk a long ways from that caliber of people. Some have even had common sense depart them completely.
White men under attack
I find these words of President Reagan to be wise, inspiring and prophetic.
And to prove it, we have Russian vs Chinese vs woke American recruitment videos
If you watch only one, choose this amazing presentation.
But you know what? That spirit of freedom, she still flies. Remember the restaurant owner in the lockdown state of Michigan under old Jackboots Whitmer? Marlene Pavlos-Hackney is a Polish immigrant who knows what it is like to live under communism and she fought back against the elitist Whitmer and wound up in jail for her efforts.
And yet, Whitmer, as all elitists, rules for thee, not for me.
Oh, look, pushback! Lawsuit pushback! Arizona is doing an election audit, Georgia wants one, Pennsylvania wants one, North Carolina wants to inspect the voting machines. Some of Fauxci’s emails have been released, sort of. I can not wait for someone to start talking about how in 2012 Fauxci did a paper on the effectiveness of HCQ in treating SARS. That weasel needs to go to jail for the rest of his life, or hang him. I’m good with that. CNN #FakeNews has lost 45% of it’s audience. HGTV ranked higher. RINO republicans are taking heavy pushback. Romney was heckled in a airport, Liz Cheney is openly reviled, Brian Kemp was booed at the GOP state convention. We don’t need moderates and sell outs. The time has come for choosing. Sheriffs are changing from Democrat/Communist to Republican because the Communist party embraces and exemplifies lawlessness.
But each of us has a role we can play in defending an protecting freedom. We may never be a high profile case like Marlene, please G-d may we never have to storm the beaches like D-day, but we can confront hypocrisy, we can think critically and not buy into the lies or make excuses for them. We can support and work for MAGA candidates (ordinary run of the mill Repubs don’t cut it any more). Parents and their children are fighting their school boards over critical race theory which is a racist system that teaches our children to hate others based on the color of their skin. Many of the school boards have been taken over by these Communists. And as parents find out, they are fighting back. Children need to learn what an amazing country America is, and what a unique system of government the Constitutional Republic is. They need to be taught what D-day is, and why D-day happened. If they learn things like that we will hopefully never need another one.
Each of us has a role as a defender of freedom, if we embrace that and do it well, we will see our country come round as we save ourselves from the grip of the communism we are on the brink of. I believe there are more of us, the Patriots than there are of the totalitarian loving communists. Well, there are a lot of useful idiots, but hopefully they will catch on. But this is our country, based on G-d’s laws, and for these many years we have lived through good and bad together as Americans. I believe we will pull together again as we face this threat, as we have many others.
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.
The ATF is reportedly working on redefining “firearm” to include unfinished “80%” frames and receivers. And I am getting really tired of this.
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.
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.
That definition is already causing judges to toss firearm possession cases, where the defendant possessed AR lowers, which the ATF willfully and dishonestly calls “firearms.”
True, 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.”
Judges disagree.
The upper, though, houses the bolt/breechblock, the firing pin, and has the attach point for the barrel. Three out of four of the firearm characteristics doesn’t make it a firearm?
So the ATF already has a judicial problem with the current effing arbitrary redefinition. And now they want to — totally without any lawful authority — to expand it to include unfinished frames/receivers/lowers-to-be.
Lessee… no barrel attach point, no place to put a bolt/breechblock, no place to put the trigger group and hammer.
Try telling the judges, who don’t believe that a finished and assembled AR lower is a firearm, that this paper weight is. Try telling them that the ATF has the lawful authority to pull that redefinition out of its… lower cranial storage orifice.
Currently, even with our corrupted court system, I don’t think this change will survive a challenge. But if the ATF draws out the administrative process of rule-making then Bye-BidenHarris may be able to install a sufficient number of anti-constitutional judges to uphold it.
Alternatively, with the Dims holding both House and Senate (senate president Harris, you know), and the White House, they could do this this legislatively for once.
You know when you’re a child, lots of things seem like really really good ideas. For example selling your little sister to put the money towards a pony. Writing your own excuse to skip gym class/recess because it’s freezing, or anything else, by not only writing the note, but also signing it. In printing because you haven’t learned how to write in cursive yet. I hadn’t actually figured out how I was going to explain my parents lack of skill in that particular department. But you kind of out grow that sort of thinking where you think you can just pull some boneheaded stunt and no one will see through it, or that there might be a need to anticipate things that could go wrong and different potential outcomes. You know the old failing to plan is planning to fail concept? Yeah most kids start growing out of that by 2nd, 3rd grade.
You know who never outgrows that idiotic alternate universe kind of thinking? Progressives, leftists. Reality doesn’t inhabit their world, so lying to people has no consequences. Forcing people to live in your unrealistic and imaginary paradigm is kind and compassionate. No matter how much you force them through tyranny, and no matter what they think or feel, the democrat\communist will try their level best to force you into their demented playhouse.
And the thing is, some of these brainless/brain-dead ideas they have, would cause you to think you are reading a column from The Onion or The Babylon Bee because no one could be that stupid. But you would be wrong.
For example, if a sane person hears “Defund the police” they might say, “Excuse me, I mis-heard, you said DEFEND the police correct”? A leftist will say “Yeah man, defund the police, they’re evil”. A democrat/communist will say “Ok, as soon as we get rid of the local police that are made up of community members we’ll bring in the national police force barry sotero talked about that have no ties or relationship with a community”
The woke
But grown ups will realize there is going to be a consequence. Which is how you know the mayor of New York City and his very stupid wife are not grown ups, or at least wise mature people.
Hizzoner then handed off the question to McCray, who said, “There’s no question that it was important to move more funds to youth and social services.”
McCray said the mayoral coronavirus-recovery Task Force on Racial Inclusion and Equity, which her husband appointed her to co-chair with Deputy Mayor J. Phillip Thompson, conducted a survey that showed “more resources for our young people was right up there” with the most-requested assistance.
“Even without those responses, I talked to my husband about it, and I encouraged him to find — help us find — ways to do that because you know, it’s something I know from my heart,” she said.
Shootings in New York City doubled in 2020 and were up 75 percent last month compared to a year prior. Burglaries have also increased, and violent, unprovoked crimes against Asians have become endemic.
“As attacks on Asian American communities continue, we’re asking New Yorkers to show up for their neighbors and intervene when witnessing hateful violence or harassment. I know that can be frightening when you aren’t sure what to do or say, but you can learn,” New York City’s First Lady Chirlane McCray wrote on Twitter March 6. “Fear is a normal feeling when stepping into a confrontation, but being prepared can help.”
And then Mrs De blasio helps you deal with being prepared to physically intervene in an assault that is taking place in front of you. She seems to get her intervention techniques from a web site called “Hollaback” https://www.ihollaback.org/. No, I can’t make that up. They do offer in person and interactive classes to prepare you to intervene in violent situations. But you need to plan your day wisely so you’ll have enough time for the class. Because as best as I can tell, the class lasts an hour. A whole HOUR! But it could be a wise investment of your time, as you will now feel empowered to step into these violent situations with such techniques as distracting the criminal beating the life out of some poor soul, or raping a woman and walk up to the victim and say “Scuse me old chap, I say, have you got the time?” <<Ok, that’s fluffed up, you just walk up and ask them the time. Then you should document it, so film as the person has the last few seconds of life beaten out of them, or as a woman is left in a huddled humilated mess, but Mrs. De Blasio does caution you not to release the video without the victim’s permission. Then you delay for a bit, then maybe later go back and check on the survivors “I say, sorry about that brutal assault your suffered” Then offer to help them contact the police if they need it. This apparently will make them feel valued. It’s ok to delay this step if your confidence is low. I guess your confidence won’t be low if you decide to give step 5 a go, because that is confront the aggressor directly.
After all, after the defunding of police initiated in 2020, violent crime in New York City has skyrocketed.
By the end of 2020, NYPD reported a 97% increase in shooting incidents compared to 2019. Homicides increased by 45%.
The 2019 “Bail reform” law has not helped matters at all. The result of bail reform, according to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, is that 90 percent of arrestees for gun crimes are released right back on the streets.
NYPD statistics list 20 arrests for alleged anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020. Most of the suspects were black.
I wonder if the fact that their daughter has rioted with blm, shut down streets and bridges caused the Asian-American community to doubt the sincerity of the deBlasios? Seeing as how the mayor and his wife have made blm a protected class.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s attempt to participate in an anti-Asian crime vigil at Union Square this Friday fell by the wayside when the rallygoers reportedly heckled him and chased him away.
Video footage from the event showed him trying to express his solidarity with all Asian Americans as some of the onlookers kept shouting “what are you going to do about it?”
You know what role His Wokeness does approve of using police to fill? Thought Police, Bill de Blasio Wants NYPD to Visit People to Warn over Non-Criminal ‘Hurtful’ Conduct
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said the NYPD could visit those accused of racism or discrimination, “even if something is not a criminal case.”
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The reporter followed the response by asking how the Mayor would view cases where the lines are burry. “[If] it’s something that’s not a criminal case,” she asked, “how would the NYPD confront someone if it’s not criminal? Would they have a conversation with them to say, ‘Hey, that’s actually not cool?’”
“Well, that’s exactly what happens. Whether again, it’s NYPD or it could be other agencies as well, but NYPD is a great example,” de Blasio said. “One of the things officers are trained to do is to give warnings. If someone has done something wrong, but not rising to a criminal level, it’s perfectly appropriate for an NYPD officer to talk to them to say that was not appropriate.”
So, it’s something like you see some poor soul being assaulted by one or two (or more) viscous thugs. You walk up and ask the nearly unconscious victim if they have the time. They barely mumble their phone was stolen. You could then say to the aggressor “I say old chappie, don’t you think that poor old fill in the blank nationality has about had it?” The aggressor then stops stabbing/pummeling/raping/beating <<circle appropriate style of assault, and whips out the stolen cell phone and dials 9-1-1. “Hello, NYPD? I’d like you to send one of the three remaining officers to central park, I’ve been micro-aggressed. No, I don’t want one of flipping de Blasio’s social workers, this is serious.”
Dispatch: Dispatch to Adam-12
This is Adam-12 go ahead.
Adam-12 we have a report of micro-agression in Central Park. A man was beating a insert gender or lack thereof here to death when a bystander following the de Blasio rule attempted to intervene and asked the time.
Adam 12: Dispatch are we going out on a homicide call for a fool that followed that bird brained mayor’s wife social engineering scheme?
Dispatch: Sorry Adam-12, no it’s the assailant that called in, he was microaggressed by the man he is now beating to death, but he wants you to come out and take a complaint in case the man that interfered survives. The other assault victim didn’t.
Adam 12: Um, sort of busy right now Dispatch. Mayor’s lovely daughter, the one that looks like a cockatoo, started a riot at one of the two stores left on 5th Avenue, and it is on fire. They didn’t have the shoes she wanted in the color she wanted so she called in her BLM buddies and the store is burning
Uh huh, she’s a real peach.
Dispatch: I admire your courage Adam-12, but remember the de Blasio rule, micro-aggressions and offences lead to the spread of systemic racism and white supremacy. The riot on what’s left of 5th Avenue is mostly peaceful anyway. Probably won’t last long, there was only two stores left. Everyone else fled years ago.
So the insane (what you call it when you keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results) communists disarm law abiding citizens, dispose of big parts of their police department and it never occurred to them that crime might soar? In a communist world, they keep telling the same lies, they keep trying the same failed policies and expecting the results to be what they want. Because they’ll do it right, this time. And yes, de Blasio has been up front about his communist policies. https://rumble.com/vbzwqb-bill-de-blasio-takes-the-mask-off-admits-hes-a-communist.html
And yet, they are shocked, shocked when law-abiding citizens don’t like being the target of criminals and don’t want to lay down and just take it like the Europeans do.
Communism is slavery, always has been, always will be. And we, we are meant to be a free people. There are many that are deluded, confused and fooled by the mainstream media and baseless hatred stirred up by the #MSM, #FakeNews and social media’s cancel culture. They don’t understand what is headed our way. All they know is “Orange man bad”. They are incapable of discussing policy or like the de Blasios, looking down the road and seeing the consequences of their actions. I kind of feel sorry for the people of NYC, but not very much. He got elected somehow.
But Pesach is coming, Passover, the time of leaving slavery. You know, the plagues went on for about 10 months, you’d have thought the Egyptians would have got a clue by then wouldn’t you? But like those voting Democrat/Communist they want G-d removed from the public arena, from private lives and from the world if they could pull it off. Fools, who do they think created this world?
In our lives, we each have “matzah moments,” moments in which we experience the blessings of life. Moments when we feel truly free and liberated. We also have “bitter herb” moments, moments in which we feel the bitterness of challenges and difficulty.
The bitter herbs are part of life. Every person experiences some measure of hardship and challenge. The “free” person is one who is not enslaved by life’s difficult challenges, but rather grows from them. The bitter experiences of life, when approached with faith and courage, can bring out the greatest potential of the human being.
Yet, initially, the matzah and the bitter herbs are eaten separately. Because in the moment of pain, we often don’t see any redeeming factor. In the moment of challenge, all we see is difficulty. Only after the fact, once we overcome the challenge, once we attain freedom, can we look back and view the past suffering as a step toward freeing our deepest spirit. From our perspective, the pain and the freedom cannot mix. We therefore eat the matzah and the bitter herbs separately.
And then we make a sandwich.
We remind ourselves that there was was a time, when the Holy Temple stood in Jerusalem, when spirituality was easily accessible. At that time, a person like Hillel could combine the matzah and the bitter herbs. He could combine the suffering with the salvation. At the very moment that he was experiencing the challenge, he could feel that his challenge was part of a sandwich. His challenge was an integral part of the free person he would become.
The Jew living in spiritual exile may not be able to feel that the challenges in his life are part of a bigger story of freedom. However, he can and should remember Hillel’s perspective. Eating the sandwich will remind him that the bitterness of life is the catalyst for redemption.
The case is Young v. Hawaii. Hawaii doesn’t alllow any carry without a permits in the state are “may-issue-if-if-the-applicant-is-connected-or-makes-a-big-enough-campaign-donation. Young was neither. While the ruling is outrageous, it’s also consistent with the Ninth’s previously displayed contempt for the Constitution in Peruta v. County of San Diego.
I “love” this part, too.
The en banc court rejected Young’s argument that HRS
§ 134-9 is invalid as a prior restraint because it vests chiefs of police with unbridled discretion to determine whether a permit is issued. Joining its sister circuits, the en banc court held that the prior restraint doctrine does not apply to Second Amendment challenges to firearm-licensing laws.
In a futile appeal to sanity, dissenting judges pointed out one or two little problems with the majority ruling.
Dissenting, Judge O’Scannlain, joined by Judges
Callahan, Ikuta, and R. Nelson, would hold that both HRS
§ 134-9 and the 1997 County regulation destroy the core rightto carry a gun for self-defense outside the home and are
unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny. Judge
O’Scannlain stated that the majority holds that while the
Second Amendment may guarantee the right to keep a
firearm for self-defense within one’s home, it provides no
right whatsoever to bear—i.e., to carry—that same firearm
for self-defense in any other place. In his view, the
majority’s decision undermines not only the Constitution’s
text, but also half a millennium of Anglo-American legal
history, the Supreme Court’s decisions in District of
Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), and McDonald v.
City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), and the foundational principles of American popular sovereignty itself.
I expect we’ll see this appealed to SCOTUS, where it will left to languish, until months later when denied cert. The blanket denial of the right to bear arms, will be used to support the Dem’s tidal weave of victim disarmament legislation.
Jews. Guns. No compromise. No surrender.
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