History Repeating Itself: ATF Coming For Gun Powder

BY Herschel Smith
7 months, 4 weeks ago

“When in the course of human events …”


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  1. On September 4, 2023 at 11:15 pm, Dan said:

    The goal is our total disarmament. The thugs at BATFEces are just one of the tools the commie left is using to accomplish this. Imposing controls on the parts for firearms is just one of the many strategies they are using. They will never quit, go away or stop trying to rule us as long as they are capable of turning oxygen into carbon dioxide.

  2. On September 5, 2023 at 8:49 am, PGF said:

    Fire Marshals enforcing codes. There is no tentacle evil won’t attempt to use to keep freemen from their duties.

  3. On September 5, 2023 at 10:40 am, John said:

    I thought smokeless powder was classified as a propellant, which is why I may order it through the mail…

  4. On September 5, 2023 at 11:56 am, Longbow said:

    President Kennedy said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.” God help us. I pray it doesn’t come to that. But, Leftists do not know how to back off. This is religion to them. Marxism is their religion and Socialism is their Liturgy. Leftists politicians are their high priests.

    Look at Venezuela. Look at China. Those are the templates the cultural Marxists in the United States are using for our subjugation. Make no mistake about it. Leftists in this country are pursuing our subjugation. That is ALWAYS the end of Narcissistic Control Freaks. Corruption top to bottom is the order of the day. Why? Because that is what crooks do. They feel entitled to OUR wealth and our productivity (Jeepers, does that describe slavery?). They will use any tactic which works at any particular time, to include lying, cheating and stealing (Lahaina?). Why? Because they can. It is what crooks do.

    There is no hypocrisy on the Left. They are at war. Any tactic which advances the program is legitimate. It does not matter that what they are saying right now today, contradicts what they said yesterday. When one tactic no longer works, they switch to another one. In their minds they are being completely consistent. They are advancing the program.

    There are always plenty men employed in their agencies to exert their will. What type of man volunteers to become one of the 87,000 new IRS agents with license to kill?

    But, you say, the “vast majority” are super duper good guys who just want to do the right thing. Quoting upChuck Schumer during the Waco hearings, “Sure you guys might have fouled up, but you meant well…” Yeah they meant well while they were murdering six Branch Davidians, in a para-military style attack on a Sunday morning. The FIB meant well when they incinerated eighty people thereafter.

    Where is this “vast majority”? Are the diligently un-fucking the last election? Are they diligently, and enthusiastically investigating and uncovering the corruption in the Biden Crime family?

    But, their chain of command won’t allow them to do the right thing… you say?

    Where then, are the mass resignations? How many whistle blowers have gone to Congress with evidence of corruption in their agencies? A dozen? Why aren’t there hundreds? Why haven’t the “vast majority” investigated their own chain of command? Why haven’t they found even ONE federal prosecutor who will champion their cause? Why haven’t they charged their own apparatchiks with their favorite crime, Obstruction of “Justice”?

    Do you expect the “vast majority” within any Federal Agency to do the right thing?

    Think of it this way. If a man takes an Oath of office and then goes to work for an agency, the primary function of which is a violation of the Oath he just took, it means only one thing. His Oath of office means NOTHING to him. He will do what his paymasters tell him to do. Period.

    To give you a personal anecdote, after bringing up this argument to one Fed (an acquaintance I had known in the Army) a few years ago, which began with a discussion of Waco (I knew far more about the event than he did), he finally had enough and in exasperation said, “Dude, I don’t fuckin’ care!” Yep, you don’t fuckin’ care.

    It doesn’t matter how many kittens you rescue from the tops of trees, if you suck one cock, you’re a cocksucker the rest of your life.

    These new IRS agents? They will do what their paymaster tells them and they will do it with joy in their hearts. If you dare to “resist” (which means to object to your subjugation), they will use their license to kill. Hell, it’s a kool job. You get good pay, perks, travel and per diem, you get to fuck people over, ruin other people’s lives, and hey… if you catch a real genuine bad guy once in a while, that’s kool too! Right Skippy?

    In the above video, the presenter brings up the powder stores at Concord. Why did General Gage send the Army to Concord to disarm peaceful people, who had never offered violence to anyone? Why did Generalisimo Santa Anna send a battalion of troops to Gonzales County to confiscate their single cannon (Which the locals used to defend themselves against Comanche raids)?

    The unasked question is, why did the residents perceive the need to stockpile stores of arms?

    We know why don’t we? Subjugation is the end goal. It always has been and always will be.

    I am probably wasting my breath. I have said all this before.

    https://pluckingtheyew.blogspot.com/2013/03/when-malice-is-obvious-call-it-malice.html

    Feds created and facilitated J6. There is no question about that. Go ahead and whitewash that turd if you want to. We all know the truth.

    I will paraphrase the Declaration of Independence:

    But when a long train of abuses… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty… to say fuck you! Not today! Not in my neighborhood!

    What’s that? Don’t fuckin’ care?

    Yeah, thought so.

  5. On September 5, 2023 at 12:38 pm, scott s. said:

    It’s been a while since I studied this. IIRC for black powder DoT Class 1 explosive I recall consumer can only have 5 lbs without constructing a magazine. For modern smokeless propellant that’s classified DoT Class 4 flammable solid and I don’t think ATF has jurisdiction, but in my state fire code (NFPA) does have requirements for storing Class 4 in residential or commercial buildings. Unfortunately NFPA regs are copyright and they are pretty hard to find on line. My county incorporates them by reference and I had to go to the library to read an actual copy.

    Pyrodex is not an explosive so is an alternative to black powder.

  6. On September 5, 2023 at 8:42 pm, X said:

    Yeah, I am kind of skeptical of the assertions in the video. As others have pointed out, powder is classified as a propellant, not an explosive. So I don’t think it’s a latter-day Powder Alarm quite yet.

    I have no doubt that the Satanic, paranoid U.S. Government wants to do everything it can to outlaw or restrict arms and ammo and powder as much as it can, but at least for now smokeless powder is not an “explosive.”

  7. On September 6, 2023 at 5:51 am, Joe Blow said:

    Longbow has it correct, unfortunately.
    I have seen as much. Start talking about this kind of thing with normies and you can watch their eyes start to glaze over….
    Yeah, but you used to be able to…. and now….
    They just don’t fucking care.
    I think there are a LOT of reasons for that state of affairs. As stated many times, one side is fighting, with the gloves off, the other side is starting to notice a couple of things ain’t fair.

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