[UPDATED] NPRM: “Definition of Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms”

The Notice of Proposed Rule-Making has finally been published.

You can — and should — COMMENT HERE. Commenting closes on August 19, 2021. Please let the ATF know what you think of the disastrous attempt to override Congress.


The original URL for the NPRM went dead sometime today. I discovered this when I checked to see if TZP’s or my own comments were visible yet. It’s gone.

The new page is Definition of Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms, and the docket number is no longer “ATF 2021R-05;” it is now “Docket (ATF-2021-0001).” You can comment HERE, which I’ll need to do again because our comments on the previous version are gone (a search of the tracking number I was given returns nothing).


The Zelman Partisans have submitted their comment; I submitted the draft I previously posted.

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[Updated]WTF? The “vaccine” wiped out antibodies”?!

Via Twitter.

“The Red Cross said that anyone who has received their vaccine cannot donate convalescent plasma to help other COVID-19 patients in hospitals. That plasma is made up of antibodies from people who have recovered from the virus, but that vaccine wiped out those antibodies, making the convalescent plasma ineffective in treating other COVID-19 patients.”

vaccine wiped out those antibodies

A vaccine is supposed to prompt the production of antibodies, not destroy them.

This is 1) mainstream “news,” so the reporting is dubious; 2) local television news, which means they could be reporting the exact opposite of what the Red Cross actually said. I’ll have to do a search or two.

The Red Cross page on convalescent plasma doesn’t say anything about vaccination one way or the other.

If the Red Cross is rejecting those who’ve had the pseudo-vaccines, my guess is that issue isn’t lack of antibodies, but the blood clotting problem induced by the spike proteins the jabs cause the body to generate.

Added: Everything I’ve found claiming the RC is not accepting the jabbed for blood or plasma donation links to this one video. Note that the video displays no station identifier. No one says where the report came from, or when it allegedly aired.

The RC specifically says they will accept blood donations from the jabbed, if it’s been two weeks since the jab, and they’re symptom-free. Since whole blood includes plasma (duh), I’m pretty dubious of this unsourced “report.”

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Oh, look; another new Orwellian Newspeak word.

New to me anyway: Neurodiverse.

Found because of this:

Art center for artists with neurodiversity opens in San Marco
Three Jacksonville therapists are breaking down barriers for people who are neurodiverse.

Indigo Art Therapy is a space for working through issues via art, but therapist Devon Schlegel found that there was a forgotten group of artists that needed their help in a different way.

“Just because someone shows a desire to create art… and they have some type of disability, that’s doesn’t mean they need art therapy,” Schlegel said. “They might not need help processing anything. They might not need help working through trauma, but they have shown that they have an artistic vision and they have a voice.”

For the wise, who don’t wish to wade through all that BS, “neurodiverse” simply means “fucking crazy;” folks who should not be lose on the street, but got “mainstreamed” thanks to a stupid movie. And now we’re to stop thinking of them as mentally ill at all, but merely “diverse,” to be accepted.

I think I’ve heard this somewhere before.

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ChinCOVID hospitalizations overestimated?

No shit.

Studies find California child hospitalizations from COVID-19 were ‘grossly inflated’ by at least 40% — findings ‘likely’ to be the same across US
“Hospital Pediatrics,” a journal of medicine for pediatric care, published two research papers Wednesday that found child hospitalizations for COVID-19 were over-counted by at least 40% in the state, and researchers believe it’s likely national numbers were similarly inflated. New York magazine reported commentary from Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, and her colleague Amy Beck, an associate professor of pediatrics, that explained the studies’ findings.

“Taken together, these studies underscore the importance of clearly distinguishing between children hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 found on universal testing versus those hospitalized for COVID-19 disease,” they wrote.

The feds paid a premium, above and beyond normal Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements, for “diagnosing” (which didn’t even require a positive test) patients “with” ChinCOVID. And another bonus if they stuck one on a ventilator. (A nurse told me some cases of ventilation did not call for ventilation medically, and very likely did more harm than good.)

The only surprise is that so-called “cases” were only inflated 40%.

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Some people are slow learners.

I have new neighbors; they’re still getting moved in. Yesterday, I noticed a Comcast installer’s van in their driveway. I just blinked, shrugged, and figured it’s their money.

But last evening, New Neighbor came to my front door. He wanted to show me something, and make sure I was cool with it.

What he showed was a cable coming out of the service boxx in my yard, and just running across the grass and along his driveway his his house.

That’s his new service drop.

I’ve done some cust prem installs, and that was a first for me. The closest I’ve seen to that was wire for field phones at a tac airbase.

He said Comcast told him that someone would be out in a week or so to do a proper drop.

I mentioned that to my sister. She just looked astounded, and said something like, “Comcast? Did you tell him?”

Live and learn, I guess. I hope.

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ABC/AP: Spin, Spin, Spin

Yesterday’s Arizona Senate/Auditors meeting was interesting. Taking the statements at face value, things are much worse for Maricopa County than I thought. The issue of no matching serial numbers on “spoiled” ballots that had to be duplicated appears to be an outright violation of state law (Bennett read the relevant text from the law in the meeting).

I think the Board of Supervisors shot themselves in the foot by not attending. As it was, the auditors were able to carefully and clearly lay out some preliminary findings without interruption. The BOS missed an opportunity to disrupt and confuse the presentation. In their place, I would have attended, but maybe they were busy packing for abrupt overseas vacations.

In fact, the auditors were able to explain the deleted directory, and its recovery, in enough clarified detail that the lefty mainstream media has to spin it away.

Arizona auditors backtrack, say no election data destroyed
Firms hired to run a partisan audit of the 2020 election for Senate Republicans in Arizona said Tuesday that data was not destroyed, reversing earlier allegations that election officials eliminated evidence

The auditors did not backtrack.

The auditors had not alleged that “election officials eliminated evidence.” What they had said was that a directory had been deleted. They did not say by whom, and they never said the data was “destroyed.”

In the computer world, “deleted” means that a file has been marked in the Master File Table to indicate that the physical portion of the drive where it is written is now available for reuse. But until a new file does get written over it, the data can be recovered simply by editing the MFT to say that’s still a live file, and space is not available for reuse. And that is what the auditors did. (Real pros, please be patient with my babytalk explanation.)

The difference between “deleted” and “destroyed” is why I have file space overwrite tools to permanently clear any personal data from old drives before tossing them out.

Despite the spin, as described, someone did delete the directory, and was stupid enough to not overwrite the old data. And to my way of thinking, that violates election data retention laws.

I briefly considered the possibility that “reporter” Jonathan J. Cooper might be computer-ignorant or stupid, rather than dishonest. Then I realized that although the story is on ABC, he’s listed as Associated Press. That swings the pointer way over to the dishonest side of the ignorant/liar probability meter.

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Maricopa County Board of Supervisors are clearly terrified.

Read the letter they “sent” to the President of the Senate. (As of this morning, Fann says it hasn’t been received.)

Evasion. Deliberate “misunderstanding. Bait & switch. Childish insults. Refusal to come to a hearing.

At the rate this seems to be going, the BOS may either flee the country, or beg the corrupt courts to put them in prison where honest citizens can’t get them.

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Pondering Arizona election law and outsourcing.

Reports strongly indicate that Maricopa County basically outsourced their election to Dominion. I’m curious about the legality of that, but not quite enough to go scouring another state’s election law. I’m busy enough do that in my own state.

But here, the laws are pretty specific about who does what in preparing for and running an election: “The registrars shall” do this, “the superintendent shall” do that, “the chief manager and two assistant managers shall” do this. It’s all they shall do it; not they shall ensure someone does it.

There’s various good reasons for that. You know who was supposed to do something, and who to hold accountable if it isn’t done, or done badly. It ensures that folks getting their hands on voters’ info — not to mention the ballots — are at least theoretically properly vetted.

But Maricopa neither owns “their” election machines, nor administers them. A witness testified that Dominion ran the November 2020 election, that not even county IT personnel had access to the systems.

“So I’m, I was in the tabulation center six different days. Day and night shifts. And no county employees, no IT people, no one else was touching any of the software. They (Dominion) did all the training for the adjudicators, they ran all the reports. And so I brought this up on my very first day in the room. I said this doesn’t seem right, as a person with my background. Never in a million years would I turn my company’s most important things over to someone else. And there’s only two guys (Dominion’s Bruce & John) and they had whole control of everything,” she continued.

Not that it matters, what with our distinct lack of a functioning justice system, but do any Arizona residents know if that was legal there? It wouldn’t be in my state.

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