Posted on 10/09/2020 8:21:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
2A Ping!.................
Ping !
Can somebody drop that question for the President to address on Rush’s show today? (I don’t know enough technically to phrase one properly).
Atlas Shrugged:
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
They are changing an AR-15 pistol with a wrist support stock to a ‘short-barreled rifle’ which requires a BATF license.
Just ‘cuz they feel like it.
Trump has pissed me off with several unconstitutional gun orders.
Yet another reason to vote for President Trump/Vice President Pence.
Just like the bumpfire stock that Obamas ATF approved.
“could alienate hardcore supporters”
Gee, let me think. Don’t vote for Trump and get who?
I have got a 3-D printer and the files for the basically worthless printed pistols. I could go to Home Depot and make a much more durable and safer “firearm” in much less time than it would take to print and put together the a printed pistol. But if you don’t embed a metal plate in the in your printed gun so that it can be detected by a metal detector you have created an illegal firearm and could get yourself in big trouble.
Post #8, meet post #7.
I can’t help but think that this is yet another thing that deep state scumbags are trying to depress the Trump vote.
More and more I’m afraid that Biden is going to win the election, and that will be the end for the constitution and individual rights.
Mark
A couple of pieces of PVC pipe would work in a pinch.
Why not an EO that says guns cant have sights?
Just 'cuz they feel they effed-up in the first place when they allowed pistol braces and we drove a Mack Truck through their SBR loophole.
They tried to "correct" their perceived mistake in 2017 when they briefly ruled that anyone that shouldered a pistol brace was "redesigning" the firearm from a pistol to a SBR. (ATF Letter here.) That was quickly walked back because it was unenforceable.
Emboldened by their thus far successful reclassification of Bump Stocks as machine guns, they're now going after arm braces on pistols.
The whole point of the original 1934 NFA ban on SBRs and SBSs was because originally handguns were also supposed to be subject to the same then outrageous $200 tax. But at the last minute handguns were removed from the 1934 NFA bill, but SBRs and SBSs stayed in.
It is high time to repeal the entire NFA, or at minimum take out SBRs, SBSs, and silencers.
“...shall not be infringed”. Except by the government?
Congress is prohibited from passing ex post facto laws by clause 3 of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution. I would think that this would extend to the executive branch (BATF) where they are making law (with punishments) with arbitrary regulations at their whim. The time may come soon that this type of executive regulatory lawmaking will be struck down by the judiciary.
It would appear the Trump administration’s going about this in the same manner they effectively banned bump stocks with very little blowback from 2A groups and supporters.
Trump didn’t write this. Bathhouse Barry holdouts in the ATF.
Contrary to what many might think, the President cannot unilaterally fire swamp creatures. They have civil service protections that Congress gave them. They become entrenched and virtually untouchable.
That’s why there are so many “RESIST” folks that are thumbing their noses at the President.
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