[Swordmaker]

I find that the judge made an interesting comment that has implications for the House’s impeachment charade that is currently taking place. One of the things that occurred during the filing of the so-called “Whistleblower’s” complaint was that apparently the Intelligent Community’s regulations and subsequently its “Urgent Concern” report Form 401 were modified to more comport to the second-hand nature of that complaint and those modifications were back-dated from September 2019 to August 2019. Yet no notices were given of those modifications and no publication in the Federal Registry was made. Here is what the Judge in this case said:

“The judge's tentative order also found that the ATF's in-house classification process failed to comply with federal rule-making procedures. Changes to substantive federal regulations typically include a notice-and-comment period and eventual publication in the Federal Register.”

This conclusion of the judge’s in this case shows that the IC IG did an in-house modification of a substantive regulation without going through proper process and further violated the law by not having the required notification-and-comment period and never bothered to publish his changes in the Federal Register before uploading the backdated change in a Federal Form to the DNI’s website for use of the Intelligence Community AFTER THE FACT, so as to allow the WB to use an entirely new standard for reporting something that would never have been accepted before under the old regulations and form 401. Strange timing, don’t you think?

By the way, Yo-Yo, it is not just the “usual” ability to receive a threaded barrel that’s listed for it to be a regulated receiver, but also it lists a bolt and bolt block in that definition of a regulated receiver. The lower receiver portion of an AR-15 has neither of those, either. Nor for that matter do most semiautomatic pistols where those parts are part of the unregulated slides and barrels themselves.

This is the result of laws being passed and regulations being written by people who do not understand how guns operate. If the law were actually followed for AR-15s and other guns of their type, it would be the upper receiver that would be serialized and regulated, not the lower which carries the magazine, bolt spring, and trigger assemblies. The upper has the bolt, bolt block, and (sometimes) threaded barrel receiver. That shows how ignorant the regulators are in the ATF&E are. . . But that is the state of the law and how it has been since the laws and regulation have been in effect.

[USMCPOP]

This is the result of laws being passed and regulations being written by people who do not understand how guns operate.

Right you are. My older son was a firearm enthusiast and a budding mechanical engineer. Always making pencil sketches of firearms he imagined. My remaining son is a talented machinist with an appreciation of firearms.

There are some weird firearms out there that don't have a bolt/block or a firing pin or a hammer or perhaps some other component in combination. Designers are clever.