Posted on 10/08/2024 5:31:47 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
In March of this year, Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was killed by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during a pre-dawn raid of his home. It was an unwarranted and indefensible killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States. Because we have a media that no longer serves in its traditional role as a government watchdog, this incident was not widely reported. Because too many members of Congress no longer take seriously their responsibility to protect the rights of those who elect them, the ATF has suffered no repercussions.
How and why did this killing take place?
Bryan Malinowski grew up as an avid collector of coins and, more recently, firearms. He took to displaying his coin and firearm collections at gun shows, where he would occasionally purchase and sell firearms.
Under federal law, it is perfectly legal to buy and sell firearms as a collector or hobbyist, even without a Federal Firearms License (FFL). An individual doesn’t need to obtain an FFL unless he is “engaged in the business” of selling firearms. Congress has defined “engaged in the business” to apply to those who deal in firearms “as a regular course of trade or business with the principal objective of livelihood and profit” as opposed to those who make “occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby.”
Malinowski already had a livelihood—indeed, as the executive director of the airport, he was one of the highest paid city employees in Little Rock. Buying or selling firearms was something he did in his spare time.
(Excerpt) Read more at imprimis.hillsdale.edu ...
Not just Federal...
Get your heart pounding early in the morning...
I have not heard one word about this on ANY news while we have heard about the Roger Stone, Mark Houck and Craig Robertson (75 year old AF veteran) incidents. WHY NOT?
We’re back to the “jack booted thugs” or have we never left it?
WHERE ON EARTH DOES THE CONSTITUTION GIVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A POLICE FORCE?
Bkmk
That should be destroyed. And those who violated the law to build it prosecuted.
I'm old enough to remember when the background check was proposed under Clinton and we were told "oh no, we won't keep those records on file".
Yeah, sure. Why do you think they want private non commercial transactions to go through the same process, or prohibit "ghost guns"?
> Not just Federal... <
I do understand that policing is more difficult these days. But unfortunately, yes you are right. Police in general have gone from being peace officers to being law enforcement officers. From peace to enforcement, not a good thing.
Excellent Imprimis article.
They are the reason the government is wanting to disarm the American People. Total control by the bastards in the Swamp. We’re all going to be slaves now.
“”WHERE ON EARTH DOES THE CONSTITUTION GIVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A POLICE FORCE?””
It must be in the same tiny print as the right to abortion!!!!
The Federal Government has overthrown The United States of America.
Counterfeiting, Piracy and Treason are the only 3 crimes in the US Constitution the Federal Government has the Authority to prosecute.
I’ve got mine, if some folks don’t get the Imprimus get it it’s free great articles. Ryan Cleckner is on YT , his videos are very informative relative to trained Sniper instructor and how to handle weapons.
Their defense will likely be that those are scanned documents, and the information in them has not been extracted. Still a bogus response, as it would take very little (especially with AI technology) to retrieve and populate a more useful relational database.
But no one should actually believe that people won’t maximize the utility of electronic data and resources, such as the EASY job of capturing simple background checks, much less processing scanned 4473’s and loading e4473’s.
That data will ‘save the day’ when ‘the call’ comes, and its existence would fulfill the dark contrarian desires of the eternal bureaucrat - to have and hold secrets from the idiotic proles.
In short: How do you tell if someone in government is lying?
I remember independent news papers back in 1968 warning of a coming FEDERAL POLICE FORCE in response to the riots of the 1960s. It’s here!
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“...discovered that the ATF currently has over 900 million such records scanned and stored electronically.”
Inventory your firearms and see which ones have a paper trail back to YOU! Trade them off to others for firearms with no paper trail. Wish I had back those I bought before Dec 1968.
Stasi gonna Stasi ...
“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
– Aristotle
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