Forced Reset Trigger Alert

January 27, 2022 Carl Bussjaeger Leave a comment

Firearms Policy Coalition issued a Statement on Possible ATF Actions Regarding ‘Forced-Reset Triggers’ (FRTs).

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 27, 2022) — FPC Law is investigating a purported internal ATF email alleging that businesses which manufacture, distribute, or sell ‘forced-reset triggers’—specifically referring to “Rare Breed and Wide-Open Triggers (FRT Trigger).”— will be subject to forfeitures if they do not surrender “documents and FRT’s” [sic].

While the publicly available copy of the email contains several typographical errors and FPC’s understanding is that it has not yet been verified or confirmed by the agency, out of an abundance of caution, FPC suggests that all individuals, entities, and businesses who are now or have been in possession of ‘forced-reset triggers’ consider the below measures through which you may be able to protect and preserve your rights should ATF contact you, visit you, and/or demand that you surrender any item in your possession.

Reading the whole thing for some suggestions for protecting your rights, if this could involve you.

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Deluded Jew Still Doesn’t Get it

January 19, 2022 Carl Bussjaeger 1 Comment

I ran across this article. The woman’s mental disconnect is astounding.

Jewish activist and legislators line up behind state’s new gun bill
Loren Lieb’s son, Josh, was shot twice during the North Valley Jewish Community Center shooting in 1999.

At the time, Josh was a 6-year-old at the JCC’s summer camp. When a white supremacist came onto the Granada Hills campus with multiple firearms, Josh was shot in the shin and the hip. Fortunately, the bullets narrowly missed his spine, and he survived.

The incident exposed his mother, Loren, to the grim realities of gun violence in the United States, where approximately 40,000 people die every year from gun-related injuries, according to a 2019 Pew study (some 60 percent of those are suicides), and in excess of 393 million guns are in circulation, according to a 2018 report from the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey.

Lieb, a retired epidemiologist, has since become a dedicated gun control activist. She is currently serving as board chair of Women Against Gun Violence and is involved with the San Fernando Valley chapter of Brady California.

The Los Angeles Jewish Community Center spree was horrific. But it also perfectly illustrates why more victim disarming gun people control laws won’t help.

The bucket o’chum perpetrator ignored about every law on the books.

He was already a convicted violent felon.
He was a felon in possession of firearms.
He was in possession of an unregisted machinegun.
He attempted to murder five people.
He succeeded in murdering a sixth person.
He fled the police.

Some reports indicate that his Uzi had been converted to full-auto; so that would yet another law ignored.

So what new law does Lieb think will work this time? California Assembly Bill 1594.

If passed, AB-1594 would authorize private citizens to file lawsuits against the gun industry — including manufacturers, distributors and sellers of firearms — “if their failure to follow federal, state or local law caused injury or death or if the gun industry member engaged in unfair business practices,” according to a preliminary text of the legislation.

If manufacturers, distributors, or sellers broke laws, then they can already be sued. This bill changes nother there. The tricky part is “unfair business practices.” In 17200, we find:

As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising and any act prohibited by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17500) of Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code.

So if a manufacturer, distributor, or seller is engaged in some vague “unfair” practice, they can already be subjected to penalties. Again, Lieb’s hoped-for AB1594 changes nothing.

Even if it did…

The asshole who shot her son was a felon in unlawful possession. He obtained his firearms unlawfully, and not from the manufacturer or distributor; they were out of the loop. They couldn’t have stopped him from obtaining or using the firearms.

How in hell would they be responsible for what a fourth party did with arms obtained from a third party. If someone stole Lieb’s car, sold it on the black market, and the buyer hit me, could I sue Lieb?

It’s California, after all. Maybe I could, by showing that she hadn’t drained the tank (unloaded it), attached a steering lock, and locked it in a secure garage (“safe” storage).

If Lieb really wants to improve things, she should abandoned redundant legislation and concentrate on something that might work: sentencing reform that keeps violent people locked away where they’re less likely to murder innocents. At least prison could keep his violence off the streets.

Oh. Wait. California; so much for that idea.

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[Update] Hostages Taken At Texas Synagogue

January 15, 2022 Carl Bussjaeger 3 Comments

1/16/2022: All hostages “alive and safe,” suspect dead.

The Post Millenial reports that the actual brother of convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui says the suspect is not him.

The suspect is claiming to be armed and says his sister is Aafia Siddiqui. Siddiqui was convicted in New York of trying to kill US military personnel and is currently incarcerated. Aafia Siddiqui’s brother has since come out with a statement, clarifying he is not the suspect in the Synagogue.

Original post:

Today, a gunman took a rabbi and three others hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. According to US “news” media, you might think the unidentified man was a British white supremacist. Not so fast.

Jeruslaem Post: Gunman holds hostages at synagogue in Texas
A rabbi and three others were taken hostage mid-Bar Mitzvah at the reform Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas on Saturday.

According to ABC, the gunman said he was Muhammad Siddiqui, brother of Pakistani Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year prison sentence for killing an FBI agent.

The gunman demanded to meet with his sister in negotiations with the FBI as well as have her released.

That sounds remarkably like a Pakistani immigrant, a Muslim. Go figure.

Other reports, not worth links, place the blame on Texas Governor Abbott; the pseudo-reasoning being that he signed a law allowing firearms in places of worship. Clearly an enraged Muslim set on taking hostages and freeing his killer sister would never have taken a gun into a synagogue without Abbott’s OK.

Of course, that law still allows churches and other places of worship to forbid weapons. And, sadly, many Jews are anti-gun. I’ve reached out to Congregation Beth Israel about their position.

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Remember “Fast and Furious?”

January 10, 2022 Carl Bussjaeger 4 Comments

For those with short memories, “Fast and Furious,” aka Project Gunwalker, was an ATF plot to allow unlawful straw purchases of firearms from US gun shops, in order to — equally unlawful — traffick them to criminals in Mexico. Supposedly the project was ended when the ATF super-pros “lost track” of most of the firearms. The reality is that they had no intention of “tracking” them in the first place, as the real political plan was to have more US weapons — remember, purchased from ordinary gun stores — turn up in Mexican crime in order to “justify” more gun control here.

Mexican officials were not amused.

Neither was I.

Up until now, the only prosecution at all related to Gunwalker was that of the killers of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was murdered using one of the Gunwalker firearms. Today, I learned that we are finally seeing trafficking prosecutions.

In Mexico.

Mexico charges 7 in ‘Fast and Furious’ weapons trafficking, including top officials
Mexican prosecutors said Sunday they have charged seven people, including former top officials, in the “Fast and Furious” weapons trafficking scandal.

The December 2010 murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry exposed the bungled “Fast and Furious” investigation, in which agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed criminals to buy guns with the intention of tracking the weapons.

But the agency lost most of the guns, including two that were found at the scene of Terry’s death in southern Arizona. The U.S. government has heavily pursued prosecution of the men involved in the killing.

Since they are including officials in this, and are looking for at least one extradition from the US, one can only hope the scope of their prosecution will expand to include some American officials. I’m looking at you, Holder.

Mexicans; still doing the jobs Americans won’t.

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Mexican Gunrunners Trafficking US Guns

January 5, 2022 Carl Bussjaeger 4 Comments

No, not the NGO cartels. The Mexican army.

REPORT: Mexican Army Loses 30% of Weapons Purchased from U.S.
Mexico’s Army (SEDENA) is losing approximately 30 percent of weapons purchased from the U.S., a report from Mexican journalist Carlos Loret De Mola revealed. The report comes as Mexico’s federal government litigates against firearm manufacturers in a U.S. court, blaming them for the raging cartel violence.

Those missing weapons are showing up in crime scenes. Mexico’s military has also allegedly misplaced weapons bought from Germany, Australia, Italy, Romania, Spain, and Belgium.

In Mexico, the Army is the only entity that can purchase weapons from other countries. Further, all weapons bought by federal, state, and local law enforcement, as well as private citizens, are sold by SEDENA.

“Losing.” Does that include Los Zetas army members deserting with army gear? Blackmarket sales? 30% of the thousands of weapons the Mexican army buys from the US every year is a pretty big number.

Keep this in mind when you hear claims that 70% of the crime guns in Mexico are traced back to the US*, with the unsubstantiated implication that freelance traffickers are getting them from retail gun stores. One would hard-pressed to find affordable — transferrable, yet cheaper than what SEDENA pays for approved bulk purchases — assault rifles, heavy machine guns, or grenade launchers in retail gun stores.

Those links suggest that full-auto AK-47s are becoming the preferred cartel assault rifle. I think they can find other places where such are more readily available, and a heck of a lot cheaper, than American gun shops.

* It’s also worth noting that figure was really only @70% of recovered guns that the Mexican thought came from the US and were even worth trying to trace. Maybe they should just run those serial numbers against their own SEDENA purchase lists.