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Friday, June 30, 2023
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Saturday, June 24, 2023
Special Report: Biden Weaponizing IRS Into a Well-Armed Paramilitary Force - Ammoland.com
U.S.A. — Iowa Senator Joni Ernst introduced a bill last week titled “Why does the IRS Have Guns Act,” which would prohibit the IRS from buying or storing guns and ammunition, transfer all IRS firearms to the General Services Administration so they could be auctioned off to licensed gun dealers to reduce the national debt, and move the agency’s Criminal Investigation Division to the control of the Justice Department.
“The taxman is fully loaded at the expense of the taxpayer,” Ernst said in a statement. “As the Biden administration has worked to expand the size of the IRS, any further weaponization of this federal agency against hardworking Americans and small businesses is a grave concern. I’m working to disarm the IRS and return these dollars to address reckless spending in Washington.”
While the outcome of Ernst’s legislation is not promising – Joe Biden will likely veto her bill, should it ever reach his desk – the Senator’s efforts have drawn much-needed attention to the massive arsenal that the IRS has amassed – is amassing.
The IRS is preparing for battle. Some of the weapons and tactical equipment currently in their inventory are used by elite military commandos, not American law enforcement officers. To be clear, none of this extreme militarization occurred until after Biden took office.
Click the link to rea the whole article: Biden Weaponizing IRS
Kloepfer Lawsuit Documents ‘Attempted Murder’ of Unarmed Citizen by Police - Ammoland.com
U.S.A. — “In an explosive federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Western North Carolina, the victim of a December 2022 police shooting in Cherokee County seeks millions of dollars in damages while laying out the sequence of alleged violations of policy and law that led to what he says was an attempted murder by police,” Smoky Mountain News reports. “The lawsuit lists 25 counts of action, with different combinations of defendants named in each. It seeks a jury trial and wants that jury to award Kloepfer a judgment to cover damages, punitive damages, and attorney’s fees.”
It’s a story AmmoLand News has been following since its initial exclusive post in January presenting the original video of the Cherokee Indian Police opening fire on an unarmed Jason Kloepfer while his wife stood behind him and he was answering their demands to come out of his trailer while his hands were in the air. It also detailed inconsistencies from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department as it pointed fingers in its own Facebook post, denying responsibility and flat-out spreading a narrative that has since proven to be false.
That report was followed up by two in February, the first documenting lack of major media coverage and presenting key questions left unanswered in the sheriff’s attempts to absolve himself and his department of any responsibility for events he set in motion and the second posting a time-lined transcript of the Calls for Service Report and Dispatch Recording, and highlighting the dangers of SWATting based on unproven allegations.
Click the link to read the whole article: Kloepfer Lawsuit ‘Attempted Murder’ by Police
Friday, June 23, 2023
New FOIA Request Filed on Hunter Biden Gun Investigation Now That Privacy Excuse is Gone - Ammoland.com
U.S.A. — “Hunter Biden has been charged with two misdemeanor tax offenses and a felony firearm offense and has agreed to enter a plea of guilty to the tax offenses and enter into a pre-trial diversion agreement with regard to the firearm charge at a proceeding to be scheduled by the assigned United States District Court judge,” the Justice Department announced Tuesday. “According to the firearm Information, from on or about October 12, 2018 through October 23, 2018, Hunter Biden possessed a firearm despite knowing he was an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance.”
With the agreement, any “privacy” interests of Hunter Biden cited as a reason for the government not to provide information no longer are a valid excuse. Regular AmmoLand readers know that was the reason the Department of Justice and a federal judge sided with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in a complaint this correspondent filed after the agency refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act Request. And long-term readers know that, while news of his former sister-in-law and lover Hallie Biden throwing away Biden’s gun in a market trash container had been reported, AmmoLand made the connection to lying on the federal Firearms Transaction Record (ATF Form 4473).
Click the link to read the whole article: New FOIA Request Filed on Hunter Biden
Senate Democrats Reject House Attempt to Overturn Biden’s Pistol Brace Rule - Ammoland.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate has voted down the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would have nullified the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) pistol brace rule.
The vote centered around a new ATF rule that would change the definition of a pistol with a barrel less than 16 inches equipped with a stabilizing device from a pistol to a short-barreled rifle (SBR). The change would subject the firearm to the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) and require the owner to register the gun with the ATF. Failure to do so would be a felony punishable by up to a $250,000 fine and ten years in prison.
Only 250,000 pistols equipped with stabilizing devices out of the millions in public circulation have been registered with the ATF; this means the federal government has made millions of law-abiding citizens felons overnight.
Multiple gun groups have sued the ATF and the Justice Department over the regulation. The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Gun Owners of America (GOA), and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) have injunctions against the rule, forbidding the ATF from taking any enforcement action against their members.
After a contentious debate, a CRA resolution was passed in the House of Representatives. House leadership was initially reluctant to bring up the resolution, but the Freedom Caucus, led by Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and others, forced their hand. The House vote was mostly along party lines, although a few Democrats crossed the aisle to back the resolution.
Click the link to read the whole article: Senate Democrats Reject House Attempt
Constructive Possession and Pistol Braces - Ammoland.com
U.S.A. — After having ruled pistol braces to be legal accessories for a decade, the ATF has issued a rule many, if not most pistol braces, will be considered contraband, which makes a pistol into a short-barreled rifle. Under the theory of “constructive possession”, possession of a banned pistol brace and a pistol the brace will fit could be enough for arrest and conviction of possession of a short-barreled rifle, with penalties of up to a $10,000 fine and or up to ten years in prison.
Under the Supreme Court decision United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co., the possession of parts that can be assembled into a pistol, a rifle, or a short-barreled rifle does not equate to the possession of a short-barreled rifle because of the rule of lenity and the ambiguity of the statute. The case was decided in 1992. You may convert a pistol to a rifle and back again. However, the ATF has ruled you may not convert a rifle to a pistol and back again. From the decision:
Respondent manufactures the “Contender” pistol and, for a short time, also manufactured a kit that could be used to convert the Contender into a rifle with either a 21-inch or a lO-inch barrel. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms advised respondent that when the kit was possessed or distributed with the Contender, the unit constituted a “firearm” under the National Firearms Act (NFA or Act), 26 U. S. C. § 5845(a)(3), which defines that term to include a rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long, known as a short-barreled rifle, but not a pistol or a rifle having a barrel 16 inches or more in length. Respondent paid the $200 tax levied by § 5821 upon anyone “making” a “firearm” and filed a claim for a refund. When its refund claim proved fruitless, respondent brought this suit under the Tucker Act. The Claims Court entered summary judgment for the Government, but the Court of Appeals reversed, holding that a short-barreled rifle “actually must be assembled” in order to be “made” within the NF A’s meaning.
Held: The judgment is affirmed. 924 F.2d 1041, affirmed.
The case of AR15 pistols, rifles, and short-barrelled rifles is directly comparable. Remove the upper receiver, containing the barrel, from the serially numbered lower receiver of an AR15 pistol. Replace the short-barreled upper receiver with an upper receiver with a barrel longer than 16 inches. Attach a stock to the lower receiver. A legal rifle has been assembled. No NFA laws or rules have been broken.
Click the link to read the whole article: Constructive Possession and Pistol Braces
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Band-Maid / 4-Dimensional Screaming
(From the video description)
A funny thing happened when I started to make the video of "Screaming" to sync with my next MIDI cover.
I found that merging the audio recordings from 4 separate fan-cams from 4 separate performances of the song resulted in a suprisingly rich audio experience!
Here's the video.... recorded from four different US cities over six days in May.
Enjoy!
--Dean
I found that merging the audio recordings from 4 separate fan-cams from 4 separate performances of the song resulted in a suprisingly rich audio experience!
Here's the video.... recorded from four different US cities over six days in May.
Enjoy!
--Dean
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
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Progressive Judge Says Commerce Clause Overrides the Bill of Rights - Ammoland.com
U.S.A. — At least one judge in the Third Circuit believes the Commerce Clause overrides the Bill of Rights.
In a recent decision of The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in the case Range v Lombardo, on June 6, 2023, the en banc court ruled some felony convictions are not sufficient to restrict Second Amendment rights, based on the historical record. Eleven of 15 judges concurred with the majority opinion.
Four judges dissented…
One of those dissenting was Judge Janet Richards Roth, appointed to the Third Circuit by George H. W. Bush in 1991. She was born in 1935 and started her governmental career working as a typist and administrative assistant in the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State in 1956. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1965. Judge Roth assumed senior status on May 31, 2006. She is a few days short of her 88th birthday (June 16).
Click the link to read the whole article: Judge, Commerce Clause Overrides the Bill of Rights
Thursday, June 15, 2023
United Nations Finalizes Plan to Regulate Ammunition - Ammoland.com
Late into the night on 9 June, 2023 the United Nation’s Open-Ended Working Group on Conventional Ammunition (OEWG) concluded its development of a new global framework to address existing gaps in through-life conventional ammunition management despite the dissociation of the Russian Federation and their bedfellows Belarus.
Created through General Assembly resolution purporting to address problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus, the OEWG wasted no time in expanding their work since it began in February 2022. Under the guise of “through-life ammunition management”, universal ammunition serialization, running hand and hand with user registration, quickly became the OEWG’s end goal. This was evident when the group was established and has continued throughout all four weeks of their discussions, where even the word “stockpile” rarely got mentioned. After all, even in the specious world of the UN, no-one could argue that a global agreement telling countries to secure their national ammunition stockpiles was necessary.
It is also why the OEWG has been deliberate in leaving any attempts to define its key terms out of the final report. Similar to the dangers associated with the United Nations’ refusal to define the term “end user”, the OEWG’s purported focus, “conventional ammunition stockpiles”, remains open to interpretation. This is not a mistake, as it leaves the door open for arguments to be made that even a 25-round box of .22lr constitutes one.
This is also why the work of this group is so concerning, and why NRA-ILA has attended all of their meetings alongside a technical expert from the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer’s Institute. Unfortunately, global interest in the dangerous of this group have been minimal, at best, with limited participation from industry and ammunition manufacturers outside of our borders, culminating with zero attendance from any at this final, and most critical of meetings.
Fortunately, an effective delegation from the United States was responsive to many of our recommendations throughout the meetings and was successful in their arguments to water down most of the most egregious provisions contained in each of the five draft reports the OEWG produced. This included removal of attempts to require “individual” end-user certificates, ensuring any calls to regulate the undefined term “stockpile” were limited to those held at the national level, and for language requiring the marking (serialization) every round of ammunition to be amended into simply something that should be “consider[ed]” for ammunition under national ownership.
These were small victories for the entire international firearms community; however, at the United Nations, this means little. Unlike our Constitution, the framework that was produced this week is a living document which, once adopted by the General Assembly later this year, can, and will, be modified over time. Not only will work continue on further restricting its terms during the official and perpetual future OEWG meetings, but arguments will now be made for incorporation and expansion of it and its terms into all of the other United Nations firearms initiatives, including the Programme of Action, Firearms Protocol and Arms Trade Treaty.
Rest assured that even though the global firearms community is largely absent from this fight NRA-ILA recognizes its significance and we will continue to battle to protect your rights in the international arena.
About NRA-ILA:
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess, and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Prohibitionists Exploit Republican Women’s Ignorance and Feelings in Polling on Guns
U.S.A. — “When it comes to guns, Republican women don’t always agree with Republican men,” Lauren Leader, “co-founder and CEO of All In Together, a nonprofit women’s civic education organization,” declares on Politico. “As gun violence grows in our country, GOP women seem to be thinking more like Democratic women.”
“Despite mass shooting after mass shooting, most efforts to regulate gun ownership, even in ways that have a majority of support from voters, have run aground,” Leader laments. “But new polling by my organization conducted in partnership with Republican polling firm Echelon Insights suggests there’s a significant disconnect between Republican women and Republican men on guns.”
“Polling”? Like the saying goes, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. And a cursory glance at Leader’s internet footprint shows she’s not exactly politically impartial and unbiased. Her Twitter retweets give a pretty good indicator of where she stands on prosecuting Donald Trump and a Google search shows her regularly featured on MSNBC, claiming “American democracy is at stake” because of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and praising “Nancy Pelosi’s pioneering legacy.”
The All in Together Facebook photos tell the story: They’re Democrat apparatchiks. And Leader’s a seasoned propagandist with a dog in this fight who credits New York’s Kathy Hochul as “a transformational mentor.”
The polling was conducted by Echelon Insights, per Leader, a “Republican polling firm,” Leader reveals, creating the aura of bipartisan objectivity. That said, Echelon pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson is an “on-air political contributor at CNN” “whose work has appeared in The Daily Beast, Politico, and HuffPost,” and a connected insider sitting on various think tank and nonprofit boards. Don’t think MAGA, think “moderate” Jeb Bush/Mitt Romey establishment and Swamp. Think Vichycon.
Click the link to read the whole article: Prohibitionists Exploit Republican Women
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