ATF Rule-Making Irony

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I wrote last week about the ATF not properly following the Administrative Procedures Act; to wit: they published the NPRM on one docket, took comments, then killed that docket and opened a new one. Let’s follow up on that.

I submitted comments on behalf of myself and The Zelman Partisans on the original docket. When the docket disappeared, I resubmitted both on the new docket. I then decided to document the ATF’s APA failure for posterity and submitted a third personal comment criticizing the failure.

As with the previous attempt at rule-making on bump-fire stocks, I see the ATF has once again published the “Definition of Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms” under ome docket number, then killed that docket after comments were submitted. And then published again under a new docket number sans old comments.

I do not think that an agency too incompetent to follow the Administrative Procedure Act has any business attempting to unconstitutionally override Cnngress on technical definitions.

I checked comment status today. One of the TZP comments finally posted today: koy-csz4-nwkx

And one of my personal comments was posted today. Ironically, it was the third one; the APA critique.

koy-d4rx-4kxc and koy-p888-9zsz, submitted well before the critique, are still missing in action.

I think that’s an interesting highlighting — by the ATF — of the very problem.

But what can we expect of bureaucratic Bonzos who are still trying to figure out the whole firearm thing? Struggling with 19th century technology, they can hardly be expected to grasp electronic communications and databases.

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ATF: Rule-Making Muck-Ups

Remember when the ATF screwed around with the NPRM and commenting process on its bump-fire stock ban rule?

They’re doing again, with the new definitions of “firearm,” “frame, and “receiver.”

The original URL for the NPRM went dead sometime today. I discovered this when I checked to see if TZP’s or my own comments were visible yet. It’s gone.

The new page is Definition of Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms, and the docket number is no longer “ATF 2021R-05;” it is now “Docket (ATF-2021-0001).” You can comment HERE, which I’ll need to do again because our comments on the previous version are gone (a search of the tracking number I was given returns nothing).

You’d think that by now the ATF could figure out the whole Administrative Procedures Act thing. But then, they still haven’t figured out “firearm” in decades.


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Mobs are not justice

The holiday of Shavuot was a mere few days ago.

The word Shavuot (or Shavuos) means “weeks.” It celebrates the completion of the seven-week Omer counting period between Passover and Shavuot.

The Torah was given by Gd to the Jewish people on Mount Sinai on Shavuot more than 3,300 years ago. Every year on the holiday of Shavuot we renew our acceptance of Gds gift, and Gd re-gives the Torah.

Over the last few weeks as I’ve watched events unfold, I began to see a theme. I’d like to start with the Derek Chauvin trial, or as it seems to me, Kangaroo court, now featuring real kangaroos. I’m not going to debate guilt or innocence so much, as commenting on events. Although I will note that Floyd’s toxicology report is pretty revealing. The Oxford treatment center has a page on lethal doses of drugs. Floyd also had sickle cell it seems, and had at some point had covid, high blood pressure and a few other things. He was also the proud owner of a criminal past that included pointing a gun at a pregnant woman’s stomach during a robbery. All of which is apparently enough to qualify him as a rock star to the radical left.

But my observations involve the trial, or rather the lack of one.

They had a sitting Congresswoman with a history of incitement to violence that appropriated Sky Marshals from high risk flights to accompany her sorry butt to Minneapolis. Yes indeed, Sky Marshals that are supposed to be aboard vetted high-risk flights to protect the public. Not to protect “Mad Maxine”. But wait it gets better, she wanted them to accompany her to the “de-fund the police” type atmosphere of the trial. Can’t make this up, can one?

The Transportation Security Administration, which runs the Federal Air Marshal Service, started reassigning agents from “high risk” commercial flights so they could accompany members of Congress instead, a Fox News report says.

This angered some sky marshals, as their primary duty is to protect the public.

Capitol police, and if necessary the US Secret Service, are responsible for protecting lawmakers.

So Crazy Maxine flies to Minneapolis and tells the peaceful rioters if they don’t get the verdict that the mob wants, to get more confrontational. Gee, do you suppose the jury felt intimidated? Old Max decided to double down to her no consequences actions by making remarks about the judge.

So, about that jury. You have a member of the jury who is a BLM activist and lied during the selection process. Telling the judge he didn’t know much about the incident, and could be impartial. There are photos of him wearing a George Floyd T-shirt and attending a rally where Floyd’s family spoke. Along with making comments about serving on juries to spark “change”. BLM Activist Lied to Judge To Get on Chauvin Jury and Impartial? Juror Who Wore Floyd-Themed BLM Shirt Defends Attending Racial Justice Rally Where Floyd Family Spoke Before Trial

The mob, a racist self-serving congresswoman and the propaganda media are the one that meted out “justice” in the Chauvin trial. Did fear of their city burning impact their verdict? How could it not? No, no I don’t know. And neither does anyone else, nor will anyone else because that bell can’t be un-rung.

But America is not the only country that is suffering from justice being snatched by the mob. In Franceistan in April of 2017 a 65 year old Orthodox Jewish woman named Sarah Halimi was snatched from her bed by a muslim neighbor who had lived a floor down for 20 years. Said muslim (nope, name doesn’t matter) had first tried to attack one of his own family members in a different apartment who locked his family’s door and called the police. Thwarted, the muslim “bucket of chum” put on new clothes, crawled out his window to Sarah Halimi’s apartment and began to beat her, calling her “satan”. The Police had arrived in response to the family members call, but they did not enter. More people began calling the police in response to Sarah’s screams giving them the exact location, some muslims called the police and even told them what Koranic verses he was reciting. And yet, the police never entered. Remember folks, when there is trouble, the police are only moments away…. The murderer then threw Sarah out of the window. I’ve not heard, and honestly don’t want to know, if she was still alive at that point.

Sarah Halimi: Beaten, tortured and killed — yet France turned a blind eye

France’s Outrageous Handling of Sarah Halimi’s Murder

And Sarah is not the only victim to die in a horrific manner in cultured old Franceistan.

And do you know the sentence the horrific murderer will receive? None. The French courts said since the killer was high on pot at the time, he’s not responsible for his actions. Drunk drivers are sleeping soundly in France tonight.

Sarah’s sister is asking Israel to try the killer, as France is unwilling to give Sarah justice. Sister of murdered French Jewish woman Sarah Halimi to ask Israel to try case

France’s War on Islamism Isn’t Populism. It’s Reality.

NOVEMBER 3, 2020, 6:53 AM

Last Thursday, three French citizens were brutally killed in a church in Nice, one of them a woman whose throat was slit. This gruesome act, coming barely two weeks after the beheading of Samuel Paty, a history teacher who showed his class cartoons from the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to illustrate the concept of freedom of speech, has reawakened France to the reality of Islamist terrorism. Since 2012, more than 260 people of all backgrounds have died in terrorist attacks: in a Jewish school, at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters, in a concert hall, in the streets of Nice, in churches, and in police street patrols.

Yet when looking at some of the coverage of the most recent attacks in the United States, and the reaction from leaders like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the culprit is France itself. French President Emmanuel Macron’s vow to fight “Islamist separatism” has been treated as its own act of barbarism. Most French citizens, however, aware of the reality on the ground, recognize this fight as necessary and overdue.

The manner in which the French, and the government have reacted to this is different than the way some other tragedies have been handled. In fact, the Jewish community is feeling very much on its own. ‘We are on our own’: French Jews on why they are protesting over Sarah Halimi, in their own words

Make no mistake, it is a problem affecting many in Franceistan. From the Phantom Nation broadcast a couple of weeks ago.

In France in a recent Harris interactive French poll, 49% of those polled would not be upset if the French military took over the country without governmental authorization, took over the country to restore order and safety.

The letter was signed by 20 former French generals and some 1000 former and active military members who denounced the insecurity and Islamism and warned of coming potential civil war. 86% agree that the laws of the French republic no longer apply everywhere. They began to change years ago when there were only 750 or so “no go zones”, no go by police, fire and emergency medical services. Franceistan surrendered her sovereignty. Islamism is not a word used by muslims themselves. There is no extremist small faction, it’s a ploy.

Bit late I’d say, France moves to expel 231 radicalized foreigners after assassination of teacher

The host’s point being that France is now so overrun by mobs who will riot, and murder if they are unhappy about something, that ordinary citizens do not feel safe. The rule of law and their civilization as they know it is probably well on the path to being over. As mentioned in the “We are on our own” article many Jews are considering Aliyah, as they have been, and have been leaving France for sometime now as the acts of Anti-Semitism increase.

In France the citizens are so afraid of the mobs of their local variant, that normal people, normal citizens are denied justice. In America, as we watch judges refuse to hear cases and juries are intimidated into rendering a sentence that perhaps they might have anyway, but it was not a honest process. Apparently the muslims in Franceistan are longing for their ancient homeland in the area of Bordeaux and Burgundy seeing as how they are killing French citizens. Or what used to be French citizens. In Germany muslims are pining for their ancient homeland of Munich.

Not that America has a lot of room to say much, from sea to shining sea Jews are being attacked with impunity. Maybe they need a group “JewishLivesMatter”? This page has a lot of video embedded, Jewish man brutally assaulted by pro-Palestinian mob in NYC as does this one Jewish and Arab protesters clash in Manhattan. The size of the different mobs is really quite frightening. This is just another flavor of BLM, and my guess is the funding and cues come from the same source. Anyone remember just a few short years ago when a contingent of BLM, those deep students of geopolitical history spent the large sum of money to travel to Israel to meet with their brethren the Falestian Hamass? Oh yes, there is more terrorism on the way. Barry 3.0’s front man the confused Biden has followed orders and appointed only anti-Israel and anti-Semitic people to positions since he’s been elected.

You know all those chants of “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free?” Take a look at the map, I’ve marked the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. What lies between in? Oh, all of Israel. In a broadcast of the radio show Jerusalem Lights Rabbi Chaim Richman makes the point from the river to the sea is a call to genocide and the media and politicians let it roll on by.

From the river to the sea

To those Jews living in other countries, they are beginning to think they might not actually be safe there. Perhaps they are remembering how the Jews in Europe left it until a bit too late. So perhaps it’s time to make Aliyah? Ahh, Aliyah. To the one tiny Jewish nation state in the whole wide world. The one place where most certainly a Jew should feel safe to wear a Kippah, to pray openly, to observe Shabbat and practice the mitzvot. There are around 50 muslim majority countries in the world, but one tiny little Jewish one. One tiny little Jewish nation is one too many for some.

And so many people have what I would consider a misguided opinion of what is going on in Israel. Why would that be I wonder?

AP Hires Anti-Israel Activist as News Associate, not just one of course. But you’ve got to admit, watching that Hamass tower blow up, you know, the one with the AP in the same building? Yeah, that was pretty funny. The Media Hates You And Is Shocked That You Hate It Back I could just eat popcorn and watch this. It’s Israel taking down the Al Jezeera, AP, Hamass tower.

And I would guess, the same people that think there is Israeli apartheid are the same ones that think the Fauxci muzzle is effective at stopping a virus. Because that kind of news, and those kinds of opinions come from the same kind of people. Yeah, Israel is really bad with apartheid. #ApartheidFail

Arab rights in Israel (not Gaza)

Brigitte Gabriel can give you a crash course in Islam which may clear things up a bit.

This is not complicated. This is a religious war, and it is a war for freedom from terrorism. It is a war not to live under submission and pay the jitzia. That’s why muslims can pray at Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount) and Jews and Christians can’t. But you see, the left is so apathetic to religion now, them being “woke” and all, that religious wars and freedom doesn’t trip their triggers. So it’s packaged and sold other ways. In America it’s “systemic racism” in Europe it is flat “Anti-Semitism” but it’s Europe and they don’t care. In Israel it’s the poor pitiful Falestinians, and yet if you look at the rights they have, and they have members in Knesset and the Israeli Supreme Court that doesn’t really pass the smell test. If you don’t care to believe me and want to do your own research, let me introduce you to Palestinian Media Watch. Yeah, I know what you heard the arabs say on cnn and msnbc. Do you know what they said to the arab world? Remember what Brigitte told you about Arafat and Oslo.

Someone that gets it right is the Bolt Report from Australia.

Israel too faces the mobs, and the police there also fear the media and attacks. If you watch only one video on all of this page, watch this one. #Kenosha In Israel only worse.

Life is very very cheap to the pieceful falestinians…there is a very very revealing telephone call between the IDF and Hamass telling them to vacate a tower before it is bombed. You know they do that right? They call up and warn the residents before they bomb a building in Gaza. Gaza does not do that before they’ve rained down the over 4000 rockets on Israel. Basically Israel was told “Bomb away, we don’t care”. ‘Shocking’ Phone Call Between IDF and Gazan Reveals ‘Entire Conflict in a Nutshell’

There is a cease-fire now, requested by the blundering buffoon pretending to be President of the United States. The result of this will be the continuation of the aggression by hamass. Who will soon have even more reason to attack because they are being given more money by Tliar, Omar, the Occasional-Cortex and the rest of the squat, the Demoncrats are quite Anti-Semitic now even if not everyone recognizes that. But ultimately, it is the House of Congress that hold purse strings isn’t it? They control if the arabs that murder Jews in their own land get nice big paychecks.

I have long maintained that Israel is often a “crystal ball” for America. Those things you see happening in Israel that the left so roundly condemns? They will before long be happening in America. Not just to Jews, but to all Americans. Jews are just usually the Canary in the coal mine.

To those that aren’t really all that sure that Israel is deserving of support, may I just ask you; what other issues do you agree with Ilan Oman, Rashida Tliar, and the Occasional-Cortex and Bernie Sanders? You believe there should be reparations for slavery? You think BLM is justified in burning towns, pulling people out of their cars are beating them to death? You think it is justified to pull down statues that involve our country’s history? You believe diners on the street deserve to be attacked? You think that America is systemically racist and deserves to be destroyed? Well, if you can not think of one single other issue that you agree with the radical left on, other than perhaps Israel isn’t really all that innocent, you might want to see if perhaps there is some information missing that might affect your opinion. And if you think Israel should just be left on their own to deal with hamass and the pieceful falestians, ok. I can accept that too. But when they go in and clean house, and finally put an end to this un-ending nightmare of arab aggression, as they need to do, then perhaps be kind enough to keep your condemnation to yourself?

People say regarding the giving of the Torah on Shavuot, do you need G-d to tell you how to live? Do you think the world needs some god to tell them how to live?

Yes, yes I do. Because “justice” being determined by fear of a mob is not justice.

אין עוד מלבדו

There is none but him.

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[UPDATE] NPRM: “Definition of Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms”

The Notice of Proposed Rule-Making has finally been published.

You can — and should — COMMENT HERE. Commenting closes on August 19, 2021. Please let the ATF know what you think of the disastrous attempt to override Congress.


Update, 5/21/2021,3PM EDT:
The original URL for the NPRM went dead sometime today. I discovered this when I checked to see if TZP’s or my own comments were visible yet. It’s gone.

The new page is Definition of Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms, and the docket number is no longer “ATF 2021R-05;” it is now “Docket (ATF-2021-0001).” You can comment HERE, which I’ll need to do again because our comments on the previous version are gone (a search of the tracking number I was given returns nothing).


The Zelman Partisans have submitted this comment:


COMMENT
Tracking Number: koy-csz4-nwkx

The ATF takes note of the fact that existing law, as written and passed by Congress, does not define “firearm” to include many types of implements including AR-pattern arms with separate upper and lower “receivers,” (split-frame) semiautomatic handguns with separate slides and “frames,” or striker-fired implements. The Notice of Proposed Rule-Making pretends that these are recent innovations that Congress could not have envisioned, and thus the ATF must broaden the language of the law to catch up.

1895: Marconi’s radio experiment

1902: First commercially successful radio transmission system

1910: Wireless Ship Act

It only took Congress 8 years to take notice of the new technology. Two years later, Congress passed the Radio Act of 1912; ten years after the first successful commercial system.

In 1927, 25 years — just a quarter century — after Marconi’s FIRST commercial system, Congress chose to greatly expand regulation of the evolving technology.It only took 32 years from Marconi’s radio EXPERIMENT for Congress to join an international treaty on the regulation of radio transmission.

Yet the ATF would have us believe that Congress simply didn’t know about the existence of striker-fired guns for 60 years prior to the passage of the National Firearms Act of 1934. That Congress didn’t know about the existence of split-frame guns like the Browning Model 1911 adopted by the US Army decades before the NFA.

The ATF would have us believe that by 1968, Congress STILL had no clue that striker-fired guns had existed for a century, or that there was such a thing as split-frame semiautomatic handguns since Browning’s design of the M1900 in 1896; 72 YEARS before. That Congress had no idea they’d authorized funds for the US Army to purchase and issue split-frame M16s four years before.

Congress has shown the ability to note and regulate new technologies at less than a glacial pace. But despite THESE devices existing for well over a century, Congress has chosen not to include them in the definition of firearm. We must, then, conclude that Congress saw no need to regulate them, and that ATF doing so violates the intent of Congress.

COMMENT END


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Commenting on the ATF’s NPRM Redefining “Firearm”

I’ve gone over the alleged — but not publishedNotice of Proposed Rule-Making. While this version clearly shows lineage with the earlier leaked draft, some of the more psychotic elements are gone, but replaced with vague, arbitrary arrogations of Congressional authority. It’s almost as if they read my remarks on their draft.

The ATF gives the docket number for this as “ATF 2021R-05.” When this finally appears on Regulations.gov, I intend to file the following comment.


COMMENT

The ATF takes note of the fact that existing law, as written and passed by Congress, does not define “firearm” to include many types of implements including AR-pattern arms with separate upper and lower “receivers,” (split-frame) semiautomatic handguns with separate slides and “frames,” or striker-fired implements. The Notice of Proposed Rule-Making pretends that these are recent innovations that Congress could not have envisioned, and thus the ATF must broaden the language of the law to catch up. I have multiple objections to this.

1. Congress still exists. If Congress, that branch of government constitutionally charged with crafting law, wants a more encompassing definition, it may do so at any time. Congress has had 87 years since the National Firearms Act of 1934, and 5 years since the Gun Control Act of 1968, to broaden the definition. Yet, it has found no need to do so.

2. In fact, striker-fired firearms predated the NFA by 56 years. And it seems odd that the ATF doesn’t appear to know about the existence of the Browning 1911 split-framed pistol. Or the Browning Hi-Power patented in 1923. Such arms existed for decades before Congress chose in 1934 to regulate and tax certain types, yet Congress chose NOT to regulate and tax those that the ATF suddenly finds so troubling. The split-framed AR-15 that confuses the ATF was produced in 1959, and the US military began adopting its fully automatic — and likewise split-framed — cousin in 1964; yet Congress still chose not to include the technology in the later GCA.

3. As the NPRM notes, Courts have been finding for years that split-frame arms are not “firearms” under the law. And yet, still, Congress has chosen not to include them as firearms for regulatory and tax purposes.

4. The ATF is attempting to CHANGE statutory law as written and passed by Congress, not merely clarify definitions. That exceeds the ATF’s scope of authority and arrogates powers constitutionally delegated to Congress alone.

I object more specifically in particular areas.

I. “A. Definition of “Firearm”

“Therefore, to reflect existing case law, this proposed rule would add a sentence at the end of the definition of “firearm” in 27 CFR 478.11 providing that “[t]he term shall include a weapon parts kit that is designed to or may readily be assembled, completed, converted, or restored to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive.””

This adds a definition not in statutory law as written and passed by Congress. That exceeds the ATF’s scope of authority and arrogates powers constitutionally delegated to Congress alone. I find myself repeating that constitutional point that seems to have escaped the ATF. You propose defining inert paperweights as firearms. I suspect the use of recreational pharmaceuticals.

II. “B. Definition of “Frame or Receiver”

1. General definition of “frame or receiver”
Next, the new definition more broadly describes a “frame or receiver” as one that provides housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate any fire control component. Unlike the prior definitions of “frame or receiver” that were rigidly tied to three specific fire control components (i.e., those necessary for the firearm to initiate or complete the firing sequence), the new regulatory definition is intended to be general enough to encompass changes in technology and parts terminology.”

This alters a definition in statutory law as written and passed by Congress. That exceeds the ATF’s scope of authority and arrogates powers constitutionally delegated to Congress alone.

III. “2. Firearm muffler or silencer frame or receiver

Under the NPRM, the term “frame or receiver” means, “in the case of a firearm muffler or firearm silencer, a part of the firearm that, when the complete device is assembled, is visible from the exterior and provides housing or a structure, such as an outer tube or modular piece, designed to hold or integrate one or more essential internal components of the device, including any of the following: baffles, baffling material, or expansion chamber.””

Classifying the WHOLE as the silencer makes some sense. But that logic is exactly the opposite of that used to define PARTS of frames or receivers as a firearms in and of themselves. Thus the ATF once again display its tendency towards seemingly drug-addled inconsistency.

IV. “3. Split or modular frame or receiver

This second supplement explains that ATF may determine “in the case of a firearm with more than one part that provides housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate one or more fire control or essential components” whether one or more specific part(s) of a weapon is the frame or receiver…”

That is not a definition; it is a declaration that “We’ll know it when we see it, but won’t offer a real definition;” yet you give yourselves the alleged authority to declare a part of firearm to be a firearm, and your determination cannot be overruled by the Courts. That exceeds the ATF’s scope of authority and arrogates powers constitutionally delegated to Congress AND to the Courts.

V. “C. Definition of “Readily”

To provide guidance on how the term “readily” is used to classify firearms, including frame or receiver parts kits or weapon parts kits sold with incomplete or unassembled frames or receivers, the NPRM adds this term to 27 CFR 478.11 and 479.11 and defined as “a process that is fairly or reasonably efficient, quick, and easy, but not necessarily the most efficient, speedy, or easy process.” It would further list factors relevant in making this determining to include:”

That’s not a definition; that is a list of seven tests with no stated threshold for any of them. Specific thresholds for each must be stated, or it’s just another vague, “Close enough; we know when we see it; we just can’t describe it.” The question of recreational pharmaceuticals comes to mind again. Or perhaps medication is NEEDED.

In citing United States v. Seven Miscellaneous Firearms, 503 F. Supp. 565, 574–75 (D.D.C. 1980) as a cut-off, anything that requires less than a master gunsmith in a shop with $65,000 worth of tools and equipment would be “readily converted.

I suggest that a better definition would be: ” ‘Readily converted’ shall mean that the combined costs of completion including parts, materials, tools and equipment, and labor time figured at the federal minimum wage is less than the retail price of a comparative commercially produced firearm. For example, a privately manufactured AR-pattern firearm would be compared to a commercial model such as a JP Rifles SRC-11. A polymer type PMF AR-pattern rifle would be compared to the polymer-“framed” American Tactical Omni Hybrid.

If one must purchase a $2,120 Ghost Gunner 3 to build a $500 AR-pattern rifle, the PMF kit is not “readily converted” to a firearm. A $100 kit completed with a $200 drill press and another $200 worth of hand tools and eight hours of time (combined total $558) to make a $300 handgun is not “readily converted.”

In summary: This proposed rule would arrogate the powers of Congress and the Courts in order to arbitrarily change statutory law. It would regulate PARTS as firearms when Congress itself spent decades choosing to NOT do so. It unnecessarily complicates the issue of what is and is not a firearm, an unduly burdens builders both licensed and private with Byzantine regulations and definitions STILL changeable upon ATF whim. It takes the power of Courts to read the written law and apply it to real world from them, and endows the power upon the ATF bureaucracy.

Rather than engage in this drug-induced rights infringement, I proposed that, in the spirit of “shall not be INFRINGED,” The National Firearms Act of 1934, Gun Control Act of 1968, and all firearm regulations be repealed, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives be permanently disbanded. All former ATF employees should be investigated for civil rights violations under 18 U.S. Code § 242 – Deprivation of rights under color of law.

“Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”

END COMMENT


This column originally appeared at Bear Bussjaeger’s Blog. Used with permission.

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The ATF’s Notice of Proposed Rule-Making on Firearm Redefinition Has Been “Published”

The Department of Justice “issued a notice of proposed rulemaking” on Friday afternoon — but of course, when few will notice. This is the one TZP recently warned was coming.

Except.. not really. It has not been published in the Federal Register/Regulations.gov as of 5/7/2021, 5:00PM ET. A search on neither “firearm” nor docket No. “ATF 2021R-05” returns any docket. Therefore, despite the DOJ’s claim, commenting online is not possible yet.

You may download a copy of what the ATF purports to be the NPRM from their website. I have done so, and will analyze it to see where and how it differs from the leaked draft I previously picked apart.

It’s unlikely I’ll make much headway before sunset, so check back here on Sunday or Monday for my analysis.

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But It’s For The Children

I’m sure most people, as I have been, have been appalled and astonished at what we’ve been seeing on the news, at least on the internet. I gave up mainstream media news a long time ago. I can only patiently tolerate so many lies before I lose my temper. I have a low baloney tolerance usually.

At the end of March there were the two girls, age 13 and 15 murdered at Uber Eats driver in Washington DC when they stole his car. On video. They knew they were being filmed and it slowed them down not at all. The 13 year old may have been involved in another car jacking in January. Two 13 year old boys were also arrested for two car jackings, but they didn’t murder anyone.

Apparently all part of live in the Communist run city of Washington DC. But don’t worry about the girls, they’ll be fine. They got a easy plea deal after pleading not guilty, despite the murder being recorded on video.

Notice how concerned one of them was after they crashed the car. She walked by the shattered body of the dying driver, to get her cell phone from the car. Not even a glance his way. Actually no one around there even went to check on him. The murderers will not be held past the age of 21, nor will they spend any time in a prison facility.

Where are the parents? Where are the politicians elected to keep the cities safe for all? They are supposed to be the responsible adults. The parents brought those beings into this world, the politicians are paid for a job, they are all failing.

As are many of the teachers. A Top U.S. Teacher Training Org Is Partnered With A Chinese Communist Group Promoting ‘Socialist’ Nursery Rhymes.

The Erikson Institute – one of America’s premier graduate schools training teachers and influencing classroom curricula – is engaged in a “long-term cooperative relationship” with a Chinese Communist Party group overseeing the regime’s Communist Youth League and publishing books including “nursery rhymes embodying the core values of socialism” and magazines praising Xi Jinping and Karl Marx, The National Pulse can reveal.

….

Additionally, CCPPG has published “Think Like A Great Mind – Karl Marx For Young Readers,” which carries out the government-stipulated goal of “disseminating and upholding the doctrines of Marx, Lenin, Mao, and Deng.” The publishing house also distributes “100 Core Values ​​Nursery Rhyme,” which describes itself as “a collection of inspirational nursery rhymes embodying the core values ​​of socialism.”

Apparently these amoral thugs have no one or anything in their lives to give them the faintest idea of right and wrong. It’s a pity parents aren’t still held responsible for the crimes of their children when they are that young.

But, I’m sure if you talked to their parents, they would say something similar to what the “mother” of the attempted murderess in Columbus said of her daughter.

“She was a very loving, peaceful little girl. She was 16-years-old. And Makhia had a motherly nature about her. She promoted peace.”

Attempted murderess:

“I’m gonna stab the f*ck out of you, bitch!”

In case you haven’t seen the video.

The first girl she attempted to stab that fell down was kicked in the head by the man in grey. Yeah boy, he’s special. He kicked a girl in the head when she was trying to get up. The aspiring murderess then goes after the girl in the pink outfit carrying a little dog and is seconds away from stabbing her when she is shot. So, how crazy do you have to be to try to kill two people in front of a police officer who is telling you to stop and has his gun out? Then the man who kicked the unarmed girl in the head who was trying to get up unloads verbal abuse on the officer after he is forced to put down the aspiring murderess like a rabid animal. Perhaps he and his mouth should have gone and kicked the knife out of the murderess’s hand instead, eh what?

That additional information is on this longer video released by the police department. It’s 44 minutes long.

At the end of the first video the neighborhood (some of) is up in arms about a white police officer saving the life of the girl in pink. Her black life didn’t matter so much, nor did the black life of the girl in shorts she tried to stab first. I haven’t heard much of anything about the girl in pink, who I’m shocked the news (hahahaha, I know, I crack myself up) media hasn’t tried to get a comment from. But there is this.

Apparently some guy who’s claim to fame is he can bounce a ball has ruled that her life didn’t matter. ‘That Girl Getting Stabbed Wasn’t In Danger,’ Says Man Who Flops Any Time Another Player Gets Within Six Feet Of Him 😉

Tucker Carlson did a segment talking about the response from, how shall I phrase this? People who have no actual experience or knowledge in the field of law-enforcement throwing their ignorance out there on full display. I start the video at that part.

This excusing of violent, rabid animals that have no sense of right and wrong, good and bad is not working out well. There is an old saying “Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll keep getting what you’re getting”. Well, we are getting a culture of crime, where life is dirt cheap. And the thing of it is, if it had been the aspiring knife murderess who was being attacked by the man in grey with a ballpeen hammer, she would have wanted that same cop to have stepped in and saved her. After this, would he? How many officers will now hesitate to step into that breech? How does this make life safer for anyone? How does this make a better, more civil society? How does it bring us together as a united nation?

Our culture has come very distorted. What is right is called wrong by much of the media, and loud mouthed ignorant politicians who encourage more violence. They are attempting to divide us by color as good communists do and as Charles Manson predicted. And gullible people who would have benefited under the previous administration celebrate the loss of their opportunity to do so.

And yet, to the communist left, the answer is to destroy the Constitution and strip law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights to defend themselves against the feral animals that roam the streets looking for easy prey. Huh, guess we know their desired voting block and it’s not decent people.

There are people that have addressed part of the problem.

Most Mass Shooters ‘Dad-Deprived Males’

“There’s common denominators among mass shooters, the most obvious is that they’re male—98 percent are male. A second common denominator is that they’re almost all dad-deprived males,” Farrell told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.”

People who carry out mass shootings at schools in particular tend to be boys who are suicidal, depressed, and dad-deprived.

I can’t help but wonder if that doesn’t play into this as well, along with a culture that excuses violence towards others. For some, because some animals are more equal than others.

Star Parker has talked about this. She is an amazing woman that came off what she terms Uncle Sam’s Plantation. She came from being a welfare Mom who was living for drugs, sex and rock and roll to being an independent self-employed leader. There is a nice article about her here.

In it she talked about how her social worker told her if she wanted to get along not to open a checking account or get married. Either of those things she felt might have led to Star beginning to live a different life. Which she did. Back on Uncle Sam’s Plantation

Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems. The kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.

The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families.

Through God’s grace, I found my way out. It was then that I understood what freedom meant and how great this country is.

And for those wanting to seek the comfort, strength and guidance of religion, the communist run states have many of them shut down.

Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help you.

I can only pray that those that have been deceived into trading a life of decency and opportunity for the lies of communism will wake up and stop voting for it. To look at the policies, goals and actions of a candidate and party regardless of color of skin. And for pity sake, how many times are you going to let the mainstream media lie? Take off the fauci muzzle and breath the fresh air of freedom!

But until that day, politicians and the media have created the demand for the latest new offering from Playskool.

Playskool Releases ‘My First Knife Fight’ Playset

According to Hasbro, the playset is already wildly popular and has caused no actual violence, just innocent kids stabbing each other on playgrounds a lot “in good clean knife fighting fun.”

And you just know, the mainstream media aka #FakeNews and the warbling moonbats would make sure it’s a success. By the way, this one is also from the Babylon Bee, so.

My First Knife Fight

Pray for our country. Pray that sane, responsible leaders will be elected. Pray that their will be just consequences for those that break the actual law, not whatever the communists determine it is this hour. It’s for the children.

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