Posted on 10/19/2020 5:16:47 AM PDT by marktwain
ATF Pistol Brace Reversal Political Move, 60-Day Suspension of Honey Badger Decision, Photo by @the_official_q.
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are unlikely to have acted, as policy, to deliberately hurt President Trump's chances at re-election. This does not mean a faction of individuals inside the ATF did not do so.
Several sources have been willing to talk, off the record, about what is going on in the ATF. None are currently inside the agency. None were willing to be quoted. All have had considerable contact with the agency over past years.
One source confirmed the AmmoLand article by John Crump on 8 October was “on the money”. It was claimed Associate Deputy Director Marvin Richardson was quite upset with John Crump's AmmoLand article.
In the article, sources inside the ATF state Acting Director Regina Lombardo is “not loyal to the president”. They state Associate Director Marvin Richardson believes pistol braces “violate the NFA”.
Believing pistol braces violate the NFA appears to be a common position inside the ATF. ATF rulings on pistol arm braces have been contradictory.
An Acting Director of the ATF is not required to be personally loyal to a President, but they should be expected to follow DOJ directives.
Lombardo was next in line after Acting Director Thomas B. Brandon retired at the end of April of 2019. The simplest thing to do was to make her Acting Director while waiting for approval of a direct appointment by President Trump.
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Hundreds of thousands to millions of these already on firearms. Come and get ‘em ATF! you deepstate storm trooper thugs.
“Come and get ‘em ATF”
I agree, but that’s what happened at Waco
Maybe we should stop allowing the ATF and other federal agencies to make de-facto law, and throw these issues back at the legislature where they belong.
I simply never felt the need for an AR "pistol" with the "brace." My Ruger shortens to close quarters capabilities just fine. Ditto my Daniel Defense.
That said, I considered the ATF's ruling to be arbitrary and capricious. We need to eliminate all gun laws, including NFA, '68 and '86. Then we need to get positively medieval on criminals and crime. Immediately execute all death row sentences and make criminals terrified of law enforcement.
When we start dragging them into the public square and lopping off heads, and televising it like Monday Night Foolsball, we'll find we don't really need gun laws.
Which means banning them would violate my Americans with Disabilities Act rights.
Did Wyatt Erp use a pistol brace?
A Waco style siege couldn’t happen today. Tens of thousands of armed patriots would descend upon the location.
Waco was mostly about scaring the more outspoken militia groups of that period into silence. Ultimately, all it did was get a federal building blown up and millions of “modern sporting rifles” manufactured and sold. Unintended consequences FTW.
Make Ted Nugent the director of ATF. Amy Coney who?
“Maybe we should stop allowing the ATF and other federal agencies to make de-facto law, and throw these issues back at the legislature where they belong.”
That’s crazy talk.
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I’m sure the branch davidians told themselves the same thing right up to the moment they were all burned alive.
Don’t get me wrong, every gun law is an infringement, but th government has no problem with killing who it needs to in order to make a point or an example. If they’ll kill unarmed Vicki Weaver holding her baby girl, there must not be much they wouldn’t kill.
we are in an extremely different place than we were 30 years ago. I appreciate the comparison, but I don’t buy them.
I do agree that the alphabet agencies are all thug scum... i do not agree they could operate with the open impunity they did in the 90’s.
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Right on the money
If you don’t mind my asking, why not?
I don't know - but some of the 'Colt Single Action Army'-type revolvers were apparently available with shoulder stocks (which was entirely legal at the time). I also don't know if/when Mr. Earp might have owned such a Colt; info at the Kansas Historical Society web site suggests that he carried a .44 S&W at the 'OK Corral'...
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because I think any gov siege would be met with massive amounts of anti-gov resistance who would roll onto the scene en masse. There are far, far more people willing to have a standoff today with the gov than in the 90’s. Take the Bundy stuff as an example.
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