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Congress Playing Their Part
Hey, how can you argue with proposed legislation to rein in the jack-booted thugs of the ATF — especially when it’s known as the RIFLE Act?
Under the Biden Administration, ATF’s zero tolerance policy forced small and mid-sized gun stores out of business. The agency revoked Federal Firearm Licenses due to minor clerical errors like missing a customer’s middle initial or using a state’s abbreviation rather than the state’s full name. In 2024 alone, ATF saw the highest levels of gun store license revocations in 20 years—the third consecutive year of increased license revocations under President Biden’s leadership. Last week, the Biden Administration claimed it reversed its zero tolerance policy. Upon further review of the updated enforcement guidance, it appears to remain fully in effect.
Rep. Mann (R-KS) told Breitbart News, “President Biden did everything in his power to weaponize the federal government against gun store owners in the Big First District of Kansas and across the country. His zero tolerance policy undermined the Second Amendment and trampled on the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. Since day one, I have rigorously pushed back against this unconstitutional policy and fought for more oversight to rein in ATF’s abuse.”
He added, “On November 5, 2024, the country made it clear—our constitutional rights are not up for grabs. My bill makes that crystal clear by fortifying the Second Amendment rights of local gun stores and seeking to restore a degree of wholeness to individuals whose livelihoods were destroyed by this federal abuse. I look forward to working with President Trump to further strengthen the protection of the Second Amendment, deliver justice for our FFLs, and get our country back on track.”
Who’s the new head of the ATF, again? (I know, I know: a decent head of the ATF would rescind the enforcement instructions off his own bat — I know I would, if my application to head up the ATF had been successful. But then again, considering that I’d have started shutting down the entire agency from Day 1 of my appointment, the whole issue would have been moot.)
Oops
Must be that Global Warming Climate Cooling Change© I’ve been hearing so much about.
Legal Oddity
When I first started looking to buy gun, (very) shortly after I arrived here in the md-1980s, I was astounded to learn that while I could buy any long gun from an out-of-state Merchant Of Death, I could not buy a handgun in such fashion.
It made no sense to me back then, and it has never done so since, especially as the stupid NCIS-check thing (which has to be carried out before even buying a gun from an FFL in your home state) seems to make the whole issue a moot point.
Well then, lookee here:
The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) is taking on the federal ban on interstate handgun sales in their latest lawsuit. The filing is titled Elite Precision Customs v. ATF. Industry notables Tim Herron and Freddie Blish are plaintiffs alongside the FPC and Elite Precision, which is an FFL based out of Mansfield, Texas.
The federal ban makes it illegal for Herron or Blish, both of whom travel quite a bit for work, to purchase a handgun directly from Elite Precision Customs when they’re in Texas. Under current law, a handgun has to be shipped to a FFL in the buyer’s home state where the background check will be completed. If the ban can be successfully challenged, it would make it possible for people to purchase handguns directly from brick-and-mortar FFLs while visiting states in which they don’t reside.
Well, I don’t agree with the whole NCIS check thing at all anyway, but I would love to swing by a mom ‘n pop pawn shop or gun store in my travels, and pick up a handgun which caught my fancy. (I actually stumbled on one such situation somewhere in Arizona, many years ago; it was a peach of a 3rd Generation Colt Peacemaker, and the price was about three-quarters of what I’d expect to pay in Texas. But noooo…)
Strikes me that if a federal law states that I need to have my ass checked before buying a gun anywhere, that a handgun should be treated no differently from, say, a shotgun.
But that would mean applying logic to Gummint — and that right there is a non-starter. Silly me.
The Bard, Updated
From Richard III:
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this Donald Trump;
Honestly, everything that the God-Emperor has done over the past couple days has had me giggling like a schoolgirl.
Out of the WHO? — check
No more Paris Climate Accord? — check
Eliminate birthright citizenship? — check
Sends fed (non-)workers back to the office? — check
End federal government affirmative action? — check
Toss out the anti-gunners? — check
Pardon the J6ers? — check
Fuck this DEI bullshit? — check
Ditto the Pride bullshit? — check
Take away security clearances from the unworthy? — check
…and so on.
Even better is that his capos (Rubio, Homan) are likewise kicking butt (they already have the names; they don’t need to take them). Gawd knows what will happen when Pete Hegseth gets to Defense and Pam Bondi to the DOJ… but personally, I can’t wait.
Not just all the above, but the media and other socialist scum are running around with their hair on fire, which is immensely satisfying.
I need a cigarette… and I don’t even smoke.
But THEY are.
Please, sir: can I have some more?
A Taste Of Nock
I could call this the Quote Of The Day, but I think I’ll just start a category entitled as above, because Albert J. Nock should be required reading in schools, let alone on a small blog like this. Fat chance of the former happening, however, when you get impious thoughts like this:
“Refrain from using the word Bolshevism, or Fascism, Hitlerism, Marxism, Communism, and you have no troubles getting acceptance for the principle that underlies them all alike — the principle that the State is everything, and the individual nothing.” — Journal.
Which reminds me: I need to schedule a meeting with my tax preparer.