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OUR OUT-OF-CONTROL FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
Imprimis ^ | August 2024 | RYAN CLECKNER

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 ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: arkansas; atf; banglist; batf; civilrights; coup; donutwatch; ffl; guncontrol; lawfare; littlerock; malinowski
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1 posted on 10/08/2024 5:31:47 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

Not just Federal...


2 posted on 10/08/2024 5:35:46 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Thank You Rush

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?


3 posted on 10/08/2024 5:36:44 AM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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WHERE ON EARTH DOES THE CONSTITUTION GIVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A POLICE FORCE?


4 posted on 10/08/2024 5:38:33 AM PDT by ZULU (Remember: ABBEY GATE, Kate Steinle, Joscelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley. )
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Bkmk


5 posted on 10/08/2024 5:41:01 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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"Another area in which the ATF is violating federal law is in keeping a firearms registry. The Firearms Owners Protection Act passed by Congress in 1986 specifically prohibits the ATF from having an electronic database of firearms and their owners. But Georgia Congressman Andrew Clyde recently visited the ATF records center in West Virginia and discovered that the ATF currently has over 900 million such records scanned and stored electronically."

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"?

6 posted on 10/08/2024 5:44:13 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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> 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.


7 posted on 10/08/2024 5:53:56 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Thank You Rush; marktwain

Excellent Imprimis article.


8 posted on 10/08/2024 5:54:38 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Thank You Rush
"That's nice work, boys!"


9 posted on 10/08/2024 6:04:48 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth!)
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To: Thank You Rush

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.


10 posted on 10/08/2024 6:06:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The New "American Dream!" U.S. taxpayer financed - "ASYLUM" for foreign fugitives.)
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To: ZULU

“”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!!!!


11 posted on 10/08/2024 6:07:43 AM PDT by Thank You Rush ( )
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The Federal Government has overthrown The United States of America.


12 posted on 10/08/2024 6:10:35 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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Counterfeiting, Piracy and Treason are the only 3 crimes in the US Constitution the Federal Government has the Authority to prosecute.


13 posted on 10/08/2024 6:12:30 AM PDT by eyeamok
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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.


14 posted on 10/08/2024 6:24:52 AM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: Tench_Coxe

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?


15 posted on 10/08/2024 6:26:55 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: ZULU

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!


16 posted on 10/08/2024 6:30:19 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Thank You Rush

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻


17 posted on 10/08/2024 6:30:42 AM PDT by ZULU (Remember: ABBEY GATE, Kate Steinle, Joscelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

“...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.


18 posted on 10/08/2024 6:33:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Thank You Rush

Stasi gonna Stasi ...


19 posted on 10/08/2024 6:33:28 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
– Aristotle


20 posted on 10/08/2024 6:34:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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