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.
But what can we expect of bureaucratic Bonzos who are still trying to figure out the whole firearm thing?
Wonder if they know what bathroom to use??
Sheila,
You must know by now that they are allowed to use whatever bathroom that they most closely identify with.
Truly, the need for bureaucrats to make rules, even those that make no sense, in order to remain relevant is astounding. The biggest problem with the BATFE is that it is composed of far too many people who are antagonistic to the entire philosophy of civilian ownership of firearms, in any form. And you can see that in the rules that they make, and the obscurity of the rules that they make. They have no desire to make a rule well defined and easy to interpret. If they were hard and fast rules, the BATFE’s would not be able to interpret them on a case by case basis, thus putting a small bit of fear in gun owners mind, to try and keep them in obedience to the letter of the law, whatever that is.
There’s an archive of the deleted original ATF page at…
https://archive.is/lYVTK
Ah. No. That is an archive of the atf.gov page which is still live.
https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/definition-frame-or-receiver
There appears to be no archive of the regulations.gov page.
https://archive.is/j0FKK
You nailed that one Pigpen. Nothing about this is straightforward, as I recall isn’t part of the communist playbook the abolition of certainty? Like trying to get the correct answer to a math problem is racist now. There are no absolute sexes. Of course personally, I identify as a “transvaxxer”. I identify as someone who has had both covid experimental jabs. But the BATFE, CDC, WHO like so many other agencies and groups of authority keep moving the goal posts and changing rules. You’re right, it’s about keeping people in a state of stress and apprehension.
But but we need to protect the children;
Every Nerf Gun Could Be Turned Into “80% Or Greater Receiver” Under New ATF Rule
http://looserounds.com/2021/05/26/every-nerf-gun-could-be-turned-into-80-or-greater-receiver-under-new-atf-rule/