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Once Again, A Simple Solution

Government Thugs, Rights, The Gun Thing, Two-Minute Hate

We all knew about this disgusting abridgement of our rights, but here it is in black and white:

Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Tex., sent a letter on Tuesday to President Donald Trump urging action on a centralized registry of guns and gun owners that, according to Gun Owners of America (GOA), violates multiple federal statutes. 

Cloud argued the database violates the 1986 Firearm Owners’ Protection Act and congressional spending bans on centralizing records or searching them by name.

“No one in their right mind can look at ATF’s digital, searchable 1.4 billion record database of firearm transactions and tell me that isn’t a gun registry. Several federal laws prohibit gun registration, so it’s truly shocking to see how ATF has disregarded the will of Congress here,” Aidan Johnston, GOA Federal Affairs Director told Just The News.

According to Johnston, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) digital database, managed by the National Tracing Center in West Virginia, has surged to 1.4 billion records, a significant increase from the 920 million records reported in 2021. 

The database contains various forms of identifying records such as firearm transaction records, names, addresses, and serial numbers. The records are primarily digitized from paper forms when gun stores go out of business, which happened at an accelerated rate under the Biden administration due to its zero-tolerance policies.

The ATF hides behind a definition:

…the ATF claims this is a tracing system rather than a registry.

Of course it does.  This ignores (uh huh) the fact that it’s a de facto  registration device — just an unintended consequence rather than a feature rather than a bug.  And as for the database’s apologists:

The ATF did not provide documentary evidence that traces from these records have produced successful violent-crime prosecutions.

Needless to say, avoiding the danger of appearing on said database just requires gun owners to utilize ummm impromptu purchasing methods (e.g. the “Texas transfer” and going to a nearby ELGS*).

Not that I would ever do anything like that to avoid appearing on the ATF’s “tracing system”, of course.

You all know the “simple solution” of this post’s title, don’t you?

Abolish the fucking ATF in toto, fire (not transfer) all its agents and bureaucrats, and burn the National Tracing Center to the ground.

*ELGS:  Evil Loophole Gun Show (coined by Rachel Lucas)

Oh Dear

Resistance

I post the following news item with deep sorrow:

Flock cameras are an endangered technology in Toledo, Ohio, with a sixth camera now vandalized in the past two months in a city with a quarter million residents.

The latest Flock camera put out of service in an act of vandalism took place on the city’s west end, according to authorities and local news reports.

Toledo police are investigating after the pole holding up a camera and solar panel appears to have been cleanly cut near the ground, local station WTOL reported.

The half dozen cameras put out of service in the past 60 days include one that was “pushed to the ground” over Labor Day weekend and three others that were knocked down in mid-August on the city’s east side, along with others in Oregon, a Toledo suburb, police said.

Wait… I can’t keep this up:

And let us not forget to honor the heroes of The Resistance:

Intriguing

The Gun Thing

C.W. thinks that this is the best-looking Single Six ever:

…and I have to admit that I can’t disagree with him that much.  Hmmm… I wonder whether those staghorn grips would look better on the stainless, or the blue?

Staghorn grips are like hen’s teeth nowadays.  Ajax used to make them, but they seem to have been discontinued, and I can’t afford the cost of custom-made ones.  All that’s left seems to be fake ivory, which I think would be a poor substitute.

Comments and sources would be welcome.

But that reminds me:  I haven’t played with these for at least a month or so.  Time to rectify that, so if you’ll excuse me… it’s range time.

RFI: .22 LR Pistols

The Gun Thing

This may seem like a strange thing to ask about (coming from me), but I’d like a little personal input on the S&W SW22 pistol, as seen here for example:

Specifically, what’s the trigger like?  I’m not interested in any .22 pistol trigger that isn’t as good as the Browning Buckmark’s.  Ordinarily, I’d just get a Ruger Mk IV, but the trigger’s terrible (by comparison).  Ditto the Walther PPQ pistols, which are even worse than the Ruger’s.

Reason for asking:  I’m going to be getting a .22 silencer at some point, and none of my existing pistols have threaded barrels, or can be made to have one without much gunsmithing.

Of course, I could just get another Buckmark, like the Micro:

Or, if push came to shove, the Browning 1911-22 compact model:

Those three, then, are the front-runners so far.

But the SW22 is priced a lot more attractively (#NoBrowningPremium), hence my specific interest, but only if it has a decent trigger, hence my RFI.

And I’ll be selling one of my other guns (Because Poverty) to buy any other gun including this one… so watch this space.