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Friday, May 31, 2024
Masse Questions ATF Director on Requesting FFLs to Notify the ATF on Cash Sales - Ammoland.com
Rep. Thomas Masse (R-KY) confronted Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steve Dettelbach over the government agency asking federal firearms licensees (FFL) in border states to report cash transactions.
“Are you aware that it’s illegal for you to create a registry of gun owners in the United States,” Rep Masse asked Dettelbach.
Rep. Masse was referencing an interview that Mr. Dettelbach did with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” It was the same interview where the ATF’s firearms “expert” could not disassemble or assemble a Glock pistol. In the interview, Dettelbach pointed out that someone could buy a Barrett .50 cal in cash. He said that FFLs should report cash purchases to the ATF. Many in the gun community took issue with this statement because it is not illegal to buy firearms with cash, and in many cases, gun owners prefer to use cash, especially since programs such as “Operation Choke Point” exist.
Operation Choke Point was an operation launched by the government to crack down on banks that dealt with the firearms industry by classifying such businesses as “high risk.” The firearms industry concluded that the government was using its power to infringe on the rights of Americans because the rate of fraud in the firearms world is lower than the national average. The chances of someone committing fraud after handing over legal documentation and going through a background check are low.
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High Court Hammers Down Unanimously for NRA in First Amendment Battle - Ammoland.com
In a unanimous opinion, the United States Supreme Court has sided with the National Rifle Association in a First Amendment case which even brought the American Civil Liberties Union to the gun rights organization’s defense, reviving NRA’s lawsuit against a former New York State official for alleged free speech violations.
The case is against Maria Vullo, former New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) chief. As reported by The Hill, she began investigating the NRA in 2017” which “led her to encourage insurers and banks she regulated to sever ties with the gun rights group after the Parkland, Fla., school shooting” at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018. Seventeen students and adults were killed in that incident, which led to a national student gun control movement—quickly commandeered by the gun prohibition lobby—and catapulted then high-school student David Hogg to national prominence.
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Thursday, May 30, 2024
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Secret Lists, Disarmament & Military-Age Illegal Aliens, What Could Go Wrong? - Ammoland.com
“The List”
Violent insurgencies worldwide have always carefully collected names and addresses of the “counter-revolutionaries.”
These names include the military (particularly the Spc Op Community), media, police, political officials and their families, and “reactionaries,” who have a history of boldly speaking out against Communism, socialism, and religious feudalism.
“The List” is carefully maintained, edited by the day, and is never cast away.
In the City of Hue, Vietnam, during the 1968 Tet Offensive, Viet Cong and NVA forces briefly took over the city.
During their short occupation (four weeks), Communists (consulting their “List”) promptly went to specific addresses, broke into the homes of people on “The List,” and then systematically murdered them and their entire families.
There were a few brief “show trials,” but most residents of “The List” were hunted down and murdered the instant they were discovered.
Some were abducted and subsequently murdered, but most were murdered on the spot via gunfire, being burned alive, being buried alive, or being clubbed to death. Many were sexually battered and otherwise cruelly tortured prior to being murdered.
Numbers thus massacred will never be known, but surely include many thousands, including a good number of children and infants.
Of course, Hue massacre victims were unarmed, via government edict!
The 7 Oct 2023 Hamas attack/massacre in Israel was more sudden and not as specific, but the results and methods were eerily similar.
Once more, unarmed victims make massacres easy. World history, going back thousands of years, is replete with examples.
It makes one wonder if we should ever trust politicians, who themselves remain heavily protected by armed bodyguards, but who, in the same breath, self-righteously decree that we “ordinary” citizens are too stupid to own guns!
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Tuesday, May 28, 2024
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Saturday, May 25, 2024
ATF Director Grilled About Malinowski Killing During Heated Congressional Hearing - Ammoland.com
ATF agents cut off the electricity to Bryan Malinowski’s Little Rock home before executing their search warrant on March 19. None of the agents wore body cameras, and they covered Malinowski’s doorbell camera with tape to hide their actions. Fifty-seven seconds after kicking down the front door, Malinowski was fatally shot in the head. His wife, Maer Malinowski, was pulled out of her home wearing only bedclothes and forced into the back of a squad car, where she was held against her will for four hours in 34-degree weather despite her frequent pleas to check on her dying husband.
“If that isn’t weaponization of government, I don’t know what is,” Congressman Jim Jordan, R-OH, said Thursday morning during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs.
The hearing, which was held in the Rayburn House Office Building and was called “Oversight of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives,” lasted more than three hours. ATF Director Steven Dettelbach was the only witness.
Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee tried to force Dettelbach to answer questions about Malinowski’s killing. However, as expected, he declined to answer and tap-danced around the members’ questions, citing the ongoing criminal investigation by Arkansas officials as an excuse. Dettelbach was also questioned about ATF’s zero-tolerance policy for gun dealers, which has led to a dramatic increase in revocations of Federal Firearm Licenses (FFL). Other lawmakers asked the ATF director about his agency’s confusing new rule, which requires anyone who sells firearms “predominantly to earn a profit” to obtain an FFL.
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Friday, May 24, 2024
Watch this before it gets removed, Henry didn't put that in I did. - There’s no easy way to tell you guys this - MxRPlays
As I put in the title, YouTube might delete the video, so watch before they do. I realize you may not be concerned and think "Why bother?" Trust me there IS a reason I ask you to watch it.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Band-Maid - You. ( Reaction / Review ) LIVE AT ZEPP YOKOHAMA 2024 - Local Band Smokeout
I personally feel the Ladies of Band-Maid are currently the BEST Touring LIVE band. Their concerts are fun, enjoyable and I wish they would last much longer. But they routinely put on a 2+ hour concert playing 18-24 songs and the also have good audience interaction, and they truly love their audience and they truly love performing. So for me, they are the best.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Alliant Powders Suspended Shipments Of Smokeless Powders For Reloading - Ammoland.com
It has come to my attention that Alliant Powders has recently suspended shipments of its smokeless powders for reloading. Alliant is the source of such old standards as Bullseye, Unique, and 2400, as well as the more modern Reloader series of powders.
Let me tell you what I have learned about this.
First, there is worldwide pressure on ammunition production capacity because of all the ammunition being consumed in ongoing conflicts, especially in Ukraine. The materials used to make propellants for artillery rounds are the same as those used to make small arms propellants. Many countries have ramped up production of ammunition and its precursors, including most of Europe and the U.S.
The primary production bottleneck seems to be nitrocellulose. Nitrocellulose for propellants can be obtained from various plant fibers, including forest products. However, the preferred source is cotton. The bottleneck is in the plant’s capacity to convert cotton into what is called “defense-grade” nitrocellulose.
Alliant is owned by Vista Outdoor, which also owns several other companies that produce loaded ammunition, including CCI, Federal, and Remington. Alliant sources its propellants from Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the Radford Army Arsenal in Virginia.
Because the ammunition manufacturers under the Vista umbrella are stressed in obtaining the propellants they need for their production, Vista appears to have made the business decision to commit all of the Alliant propellant capacity to Vista ammunition manufacturers. Thus, Alliant withdrew from shipment and sold propellants for reloading.
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