On that note, admit there is no epidemic of gun violence and that all 23,000 current laws are totally ineffective. The United States’ 1931 population was 124 million, and we had 11,160 murders and manslaughters, 7,533 committed with firearms. The United States’ 2019 population was 328 million, and we had 13,927 homicides, 10,258 via firearms.
So…Over the course of 90 years, we increased population by 204 million, citizens built or purchased over 250,000,000 additional firearms, yet America experienced only 2,725 more homicides by use of guns in 2019 than we did in 1931.
Per population growth alone, much less Gun purchases, we should expect around 28,000 murders. Yet the murder rate has plummeted.
The guns in law abiding hands are NOT a problem; they are employed in defensive means to prevent a crime against persons more than 5 times as often as guns in the hands of criminals are used to perpetuate a crime.
Any time you hear something like that, they’re trying to scare soccer moms. Be a man. Chuckle, point out the truth to people, and then ignore the hysterics.
I think he makes it clear that he hasn’t been through all of it and there’s more to come.
BLUF. The rule is a mess, with massive vaguery throughout (probably by intention). Lack of clarity is always the friend of overbearing regulators and controllers.
For now, until and unless the ATF decides otherwise, they have a calculated mess for manufacturers to deal with, but AR-15 upper receivers are not included in this mess and do not require serialization.
If you’re a mechanic and like to work on things, the FedGov hates you.
I was discussing this with Len Savage today and no one knows yet the extent of this. I was speculating that it will declare 80% lower receivers to be illegal unless serialized. Len thinks that’s just the beginning.
The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
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For nearly a year, the rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
Another reader on this same discussion thread was speculating that they will require that uppers and lowers be serialized the same, making it illegal to purchase uppers and lowers separately.
We’ll see. Either way, this is as obvious an infringement as could be imagined.
So that’s the way it happens. Completely without Congress, if you want to make something illegal, you just declare it so, sort of like Trump did with bump stocks.
He set the standard, so all of you Trump sycophants have no room to complain about this upcoming ruling.
After the Chipman Debacle, Biden Has Reportedly Found Another Candidate to Head the ATF.
During an unsuccessful run for attorney general of Ohio in 2018, [Steve] Dettelbach called for reinstating the assault weapons ban and universal background checks on gun purchases—two positions that have sparked GOP opposition to past nominees. A U.S. attorney from 2009 to 2016, he sought a return to that post last year. He has supporters in high places. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has been pushing him as a nominee for ATF director, according to four people familiar with the conversations.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has a unique reputation among federal law enforcement agencies. Quite frankly, the ATF is well known for not always telling the truth.
Even after constitutional carry is passed by Alabama, the would-be rulers are still bitter, wanting to make their own laws.
“I have heard all of this.” Meh. Couldn’t care less, so drop it.
What an arrogant prick. He’s better at lawmaking, just because. Shut up, he explained. He wears a shiny badge.
His county should kick him to the curb. He’s begging people to get permits because he believes in state permitting, and for leverage, he’s pointing out one more time that if you want reciprocity, you must get my permit.
House Bill 203 gives law enforcement the ability to issue a fine to gun owners of up to $1,000 if a prohibited individual gains access to their firearm and proceeds to injure themself or another. This bill will essentially require firearms to be locked and rendered inaccessible for self-defense in the home.
I would be surprised if this passes in Alaska, of all places.
For decades, the U.S. government thought it had won the war on machine guns. Since the 1930s, a slew of regulations, taxes, and manufacturing bans dwindled the pool of available automatic weapons into near oblivion.
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Auto sears are cheap, ubiquitous, and extremely easy to install at home.
That includes from the “right” as well as the “left,” and what that’s doing is diverting attention away from the one now-undeniable truth that destroys the “gun control” narrative: An armed populace is essential to a nation’s security. Citizen disarmament works to the advantage of a nation’s enemies.
So, instead of relentlessly hammering that point to where it cannot be ignored by that part of the electorate still receptive to reason, some “conservatives” are dividing into camps and descending into squabbles, with no small amount of name-calling, accusations, and vitriol.
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Ehrlich interviewed Lira on YouTube and accepted his assertions unquestioningly when he condemned the arming of citizens and attributed the motive to the “Zelenskyy regime” wanting the Russians to commit “atrocities” (he never seems to say “Putin regime”). “This is clear,” he asserts as Ehrlich nods in agreement, “You don’t hand out weapons to civilians unless you want them to get killed.”
” … are dividing into camps and descending into squabbles.” Dumb self-inflicted wounds. Sometimes trying to talk to the patriot community is like trying to herd cats. It’s an “us four and no more” mentality, with the four having to agree on literally everything if the peace is to be kept.
As for “You don’t hand out weapons …, I stopped right there. I hate the controllers. All of them.
Make sure to read David’s insightful piece this weekend.
Gun Control has been signed into law by President Biden with the support of turncoat Republicans.
In the middle of the night, the U.S. Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (VAWA). Some gun rights groups raised alarm bells when this act passed the U.S. House of Representatives last year with Republican support. At the some Republicans claimed the anti-gun provisions would be removed.
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The bill includes the NICS Denial Notification Act. This provision will require the criminal investigation of all National Instant Criminal Background Check System denials. The vast majority of NICS denials are false.
The bill’s passage means that thousands of law-abiding Americans will be subject to criminal investigation due to a mistake in a flawed government database. Guilty until proven innocent.
Just when your attention is turned slightly away, they go and do it again. The list of bad people includes the normal suspects like Cornyn, Graham, Thune, Grassley and Ernst.
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