There is one obvious reason for trying to disarm the people - to protect evil men who want to grab power from free men and women.
Posted on 06/01/2010 5:15:08 AM PDT by marktwain
"ATF Reverses Interpretation of GCA; Redefines 'Transfers' of Firearms," reads the May 27 post on the National Shooting Sports Foundation's NSSF Blog.
Reversing an interpretation of the Gun Control Act that has been on the books for more than four decades, ATF today posted a ruling declaring any shipment of a firearm by a manufacturer (FFL) to any agent or business (e.g., an engineering-design firm, patent lawyer, testing lab, gun writer, etc.) for a bona fide business purpose to be a "transfer" under the Gun Control Act of 1968.
As NSSF observes:
In many instances, these requirements will force shipments to a third party, thereby lengthening the process and the time that the firearm is in transit.
The thing is, ATF has been operating under a completely different interpretation without incident:
There is simply nothing in the Brady Act or is there any other legal reason that compels ATF to now reject 40 years of precedent...
ATF is unable to identify a single instance during the past 40 years where a single firearm shipped in reliance upon ATF's rulings was used in a crime.
Here's the May 20 ruling, issued under "authority" of Deputy Director Kenneth E. Melson:
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
That’s the point of gun regulations.
I tried to go to the site and read the reg., but dial up isn’t my friend. Takes forever, and I don’t have that much time. ;)
Logic tells me that as the previous law was established in the ‘60’s, and has been without necessity to change for such a long period of time that something recently is not suiting the agenda of the current usurpers of freedoms in the government. The anti gun Socialist Tyrranists afraid we the people will turn our 2nd Amendment on them as it is designed.
The only thing that comes to mind right now is the multiple states flipping the bird to the Fed gun control laws with the manufacture in State, stays in State does NOT qualify Fed. control bills.
Wondering if this new regulation I was unable to read addresses that in either a direct, or roundabout way?
Take your guns.
Take OUR guns.
Take ALL guns.
Take ALL OUR guns.
Take ‘em, take’em, TAKE THEM ALL!!!!
What’s so hard to understand?
There is one obvious reason for trying to disarm the people - to protect evil men who want to grab power from free men and women.
“legal reason?” I need no legal reason. I am the ATF. I fart in the general direction of your legal reason.
That was the goal of original gun control legislation as well - to protect oppressors. In the original cases, it was the Klan that was being protected.
Because they can and nobody will do a thing about it. Another out of control federal beauracracy that should have been shut down long ago
Wondering if this new regulation I was unable to read addresses that in either a direct, or roundabout way?
I'd say that is a pretty good guess. This new policy allows the ATF to know when firearms are shipped out of their states of origin, even for minor gunsmithing.
More proof that the 4473 / NICS system is effectively a registration database, despite bullshit denials to the contrary. This policy change enables ATF to cast a wider registration net.
So basically now a gun owner shipping a gun back to the manufacturer for repair or inspection must go through a third party (FFL) to do the shipping and receiving if I’m reading this correctly.
A large majority of the reason for the ATF should be illegal. This is just one more injustice heaped upon many others... A useless federal organization designed to grab power for the government and limit the citizens freedom...
I shipped a Glock back to the company for a recall/upgrade. They did the work, then did a UPS shipment back to me. The shipment was 'signature of adult'. My apartment neighbor, a shifty character, signed for it. For three days, I attempted to track this guy, and my firearm, down.
A 4473 transfer would have prevented all this, and the possibility of losing my firearm, or it falling into the hands of a felon.
“...A large majority of the reason for the ATF should be illegal. This is just one more injustice heaped upon many others... A useless federal organization designed to grab power for the government and limit the citizens freedom...”
Amen to that!
Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms needs to be the corner store, NOT another out of control Federal bureaucracy.
I agree in your case, but most firearm thefts from firearms being mailed are stolen by postal/shipping workers while in transit. Usually an empty box arrives.
The power to regulate is the power to destroy.
Something the Chicago mobsters currently inhabiting the White House know all too well.
So would a requirement that it must be signed for by you.
I find it hard to believe the regulation has to be reinterpreted in order to prevent the rare theft of a package by a neighbor on delivery.
My gut wonders if this has something to do with a possible institution of a transfer tax, as there is precident (NFA 34) - might be a wild guess, but just a thought.
The BATFE has made rule changes prior to going after certain entities in the past. I suspect that this is an example of such a rule change. There will be an ATF raid conducted within the next few weeks using this “reinterpretation” as the basis for the raid.
Basically, someone has tinkled in the BATFE’s cheerios and they want to get payback.
Ping.
Following that upcoming raid,
the “raiders” need to face some local law enforcement that halls them off to the slammer.
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