Archive for the 'BATFE' Category

🚨UPDATE🚨

GOA & GOF have been GAGGED from printing the news (uncovered in a FOIA) for 18 months.

Despite a recent ruling by the D.C. Circuit prohibiting such gag orders, Biden holdovers in @TheJusticeDept are asking the court to extend this First Amendment violation. pic.twitter.com/sp2FrKNmQo

— Gun Owners Foundation (@GunFoundation) March 12, 2025

Here is a link to the brief.

BLUF. The ATF is illegally spying on gun owners and keeping a gun registry – but of course, you already knew that. GOA has the goods on them. In order to prevent folks from knowing, the FedGov shopped around for a corrupt judge (and of course found one) who gagged GOA from releasing the information.

Guess who is responsible for this? Our buddy, Stephen.

David Codrea also has thoughts.

But that isn’t what I want you to do. I want you transferred to the border to crack down on immigration and crime, and/or hunt gangs down elsewhere and rid our nation of the gangs. I want you to do something where you don’t know if you’re going to come home safely at the end of your shift. Failing those two options, I just want you to hunt for a new job.

Otherwise, what use are you?

Mark Smith analyzes it.

Also, Dan Bongino is apparently now going to be a deputy director of the ATF.

I’m not sure how this all plays out.

Source.

1. Review of Executive Actions:
   The Attorney General is tasked with examining all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions taken by federal agencies from January 2021 through January 2025. The review will assess whether these actions infringed on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens under the guise of promoting safety.
2. Focus on Firearms Regulations:
   The order specifically directs the Attorney General to review:
   • Rules promulgated by the Department of Justice, including those by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
   • Policies related to the “enhanced regulatory enforcement” of firearms and Federal firearms licensees.
   • Reports issued by the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
   • Classifications of firearms and ammunition by federal agencies.
   • The processing of applications to make, manufacture, transfer, or export firearms.
3. Litigation Positions:
   The Attorney General is also instructed to evaluate the positions taken by the United States in ongoing and potential litigation that could affect Americans’ ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
4. Development of a Plan of Action:
   Within 30 days, the Attorney General must present a proposed plan of action to the President, through the Domestic Policy Advisor, to address any identified infringements on Second Amendment rights. The plan will then be finalized and implemented in coordination with the Domestic Policy Advisor.

Well, okay, I’d like to see where Pam Bondi takes this before I start cheering.

I want to see Trump press the SHUSH act to deregulate suppressors from the NFA and GCA. I won’t be happy until suppressors aren’t an NFA item.

But then, that’s what they do. It’s magic! Just retitle the individual and there you go – now you have a diversity officer who has a more formal title.

You might be confused as to why agencies would fight so hard to keep DEI officers in place.

It’s totally understandable if you haven’t accepted the fact that DEI officers are actually communist political commissars. https://t.co/BpXxA6PUoG

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 22, 2025

A court vacating the final rule means nothing to the tyrants and controllers. They’re at it again.

Then again, if they are keeping a searchable database of gun owners in violation of federal law — and I believe they are — why wouldn’t they continue to violate the law including judicial orders? No one has stopped them yet. No one has fired them yet. No one has defunded them yet.

There have been absolutely no consequences to their illegalities.

He does just as good of a job with part 3 as he did with parts 1 and 2.

I do have a bone to pick with his analysis. As for the fires set by the British during the war of independence, they did actually do some of that, as did the Tories in S.C. It may not have looked exactly like the one in Patriot, but it did in fact happen where patriots were burned out of their homes.

Anyway, I would like to see this series continue.

This is a very well-researched and very well-done video series. Thankfully, there is at least one more to come.

I do have a few nits with what he says in the second video along with some other observations. I do think that the individual agents in the ATF are culpable for the sins and crimes of the ATF. While the laws may not lend themselves to enforcement by any means but tyranny, that sort of organization only invites tyrants to work there.

As for Ruby Ridge, Lon Horiuchi was and is a murderer. Never forget that Bill Barr, Trump’s AG, got a list of former U.S. AGs together and petitioned the court on behalf of Horiuchi. The U.S. government, you see, can never be put in the position of not being able to enforce tyrannical laws.

And also never forget his points in the first half of the first video. It was moralistic do-gooders who pressed the whole temperance movement (and eventually, illegality of booze with prohibition). It was all a terrific failure as one might expect, and only made criminality worse.

Note the totalitarian and tyrannical nature of FDR, who was a communist and also a great admirer of Stalin. His AG wrote the NFA (you thought that Congress was supposed to write laws, didn’t you?).

Finally, I appreciate his personal recollections in the wake of Ruby Ridge.

David Codrea.

“The Justice Department today announced it has submitted to the Federal Register two notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that, if finalized, will fully implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022 (BSCA), the most significant gun safety legislation in over 30 years,” DOJ announced Wednesday.

So, new gun rules are being rushed in while Steve Dettelbach, Merrick Garland, and Joe Biden are still ostensibly running things? And we have Republicans who crossed the aisle and supported Democrat infringements to thank for it?

There are so many problems with this that it’s difficult to enumerate them all.

First, the ATF shouldn’t exist, as there is no constitutional warrant for such an organization, especially given the broad sweep of the second amendment.

Second, NICS shouldn’t exist.

Third, it’s illegal for the ATF to use anything in its database (which shouldn’t exist under the law) for this purpose.

Fourth, this sort of rulemaking (given the time frame for comments) is an end-run around the incoming administration, and the AG and all ATF employees know it full well.

Fifth, the FOIA is worthless if the FedGov is given the liberty to ignore it without consequences, which is of course the case now.

A more lawless organization than the ATF can’t be found anywhere in America, including organized crime.

But remember boys and girls, they’ll shoot your dogs and perhaps you if you disagree with them. The KGB, Stasi and Gestapo could have taken ideological and training tips from the ATF. That their employees don’t feel shame only goes to prove their pathologies, individually and as an organization.

How do we know that? Because we know the type of people who work in the FedGov.

And he even failed to bring up muzzle loaders, which will be considered firearms depending on the outcome of VanDerStok.

By the way, I listened to some of the arguments. Most of the people talking seemed like utter morons to me, including the supreme court justices.