The Machine Gun Nest has pieced together all the elements of a potential semiautomatic rifle ban in 2021. They have discovered the dangerous precedent of allowing the ATF to redefine words to make inanimate bits of plastic into machineguns, paperweights into firearms, and pistols into rifles. Why, all this adds up to making semiautos into machineguns because they’re easily converted.
“What’s going on with gun control right now in 2021?
There’s been much talk at the range recently about the new proposed gun control by the Biden Administration. Many people are perplexed. We get a ton of questions, emails, and phone calls asking, “Will this affect me?”, “What can I do?”, “Why are they doing this?” among others.
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So, where does this all come together?It’s obvious when you look at what’s happened and what’s been proposed where the Biden admin is headed for gun control. They are testing the waters right now with these two proposed rule changes, but I guarantee this is not the end. These current ideas have been taken right from the David Chipman “Legal and Lethal” playbook. There’s a part where Chipman writes this about semi-automatic rifles
Well, no sh-t, Sherlock. TZP has been warning about this specifically for nearly fours years. We warned about this before the ATF even proposed the bump-fire stock machinegun rule.
We warned you again two years ago, when that very “easily converted” argument was made in court. We warened you repeatedly.
We warned you in 2018 that easily converted to a higher rate of fire would define “machinegun.”
And again, two weeks ago.
“What’s going on in 2021” maybe wouldn’t have been such a problem if more people had paid attention to what was going on in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. More attention than ridiculing those of us warning about “Bump Stock Hill” anyway.
Speaking only for myself as an individual: There have been many days in recent years when I seriously questioned why I bother with trying to raise awareness of these dangers. This is one of those days. My work seems pretty pointless.
Not pointless, at all. But there is a saying that no one is blinder, than one who just won’t see. All you can do is try and reach the person who can see, if only they are shown the truth. If you reach just one, it can spread out from there. That is how the Gospel message was sent forth, and it worked out pretty well.
Not pointless at all! Some of those that may have been slow to class may begin to pick up the standard with vigor since they realize they’ve been utterly blind fools.
Many Years ago, I realized that “lobbying for Gun Rights” was a Waste of Time, when I had the opportunity to ask the then-Director of the NRA “At what point does your Organization stand and Declare that all ‘Gun Laws’ are non-Constitutional, Invalid, and that Everyone should Ignore them?” He looked Terrified, and walked quickly away from me without saying a Word. (This was before the Waco Massacre)
So, if they declare a Semi-Auto AR to be a “Machine Gun” why shouldn’t we just drop in the ‘Fun Switch’ and call it a Day?