And since I’m one the subject of the senile Bye-Biden

He wants the Navajo to let Jill go.

“Let My Wife Come Home!” – Joe Biden Has Super Awkward Exchange with Navajo Nation During Climate Summit (VIDEO)
At one point Joe Biden pointed at the leader of the Navajo Nation and demanded they give his wife back .At one point Joe Biden pointed at the leader of the Navajo Nation and demanded they give his wife back.

“Let my wife come home! She likes the Navajo Nation too much! She keeps being out there! She’s been out there for two days. She was out there before – I don’t know! You know what I mean?!” Biden said.

The clip is a very strange — even for Biden — ramble; I’m not even sure what he was trying to say. And it finally finally ends with his plea.

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I think Gropin’ Joe Bye-Biden confused “coronavirus” with “computer virus”.

The idiot — who is fully “vaccinated” — wore a mask for…

a teleconference

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Whoopsie. Indianapolis FOP caught in a big lie.

The Fraternal Order of Police are trying to blame the prosecutor for not “red flagging” the FedEx shooter.

A week after the deadly mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility, the Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police is criticizing the Marion County prosecutor for failing to monitor the shooting suspect under the state’s red flag law.

The law, named after slain Indianapolis Police Officer Jake Laird, allows law enforcement to seize firearms if a suspect demonstrates mental instability.
[…]
Police seized a shotgun and placed the teen on temporary hold.

Prosecutors then decided not to file a petition with the court to add the suspect to the red flag list, because his family agreed to forfeit the firearm.

But that isn’t how it works, per IC 35-47-14-3:

“Sec. 3. (a) If a law enforcement officer seizes a firearm from an individual whom the law enforcement officer believes to be dangerous without obtaining a warrant, the law enforcement officer shall submit to the circuit or superior court having jurisdiction over the individual believed to be dangerous an affidavit describing the basis for the law enforcement officer’s belief that the individual is dangerous.”

The officer who seized the gun is the one who was supposed to file the affidavit, triggering the “red flag” process. Not the prosecutor.

Say, has anyone outside of the entire online firearms community wondered why the FBI was called in on one allegedly suicidal teenager?

Or where an apparently unemployed 18 year-old got the money to buy two not particularly cheap rifles? Not to mention currently expensive ammo that’s virtually unobtainium?

AR-556
MSRP: $800+

HM15
$1,179.00

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Not Jury Intimidation At All

Interview with a juror in the Chauvin trial. She didn’t know she was an alternate until the jury was sequestered for deliberations.

Christensen: It did not impact me as far as the trial went. However, only being about six blocks from the police department, I could hear everything. When I came home, I could hear the helicopters flying over my house… I could hear the flash bangs going off. If I stepped outside, I could see the smoke from the grenades. One day, the trial ran a little late, and I had trouble getting to my house, because the protesters were blocking the interstate, so I had to go way around. I was aware, but it did not affect me at all.
[…]
I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again and I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict.

How many primary jurors went through similar experiences? Was it in the back of their minds while considering guilt or acquittal?

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How many Maricopa Elections Department people will suddenly take vacations out of the country?

BREAKING – IT’S HAPPENING: Maricopa County Is Moving Voting Machines to the Veterans Memorial Coliseum Where the AZ Senate Election Audit Will Be Performed
We Love Trump is reporting that the voting machines in Maricopa County are being moved right now to where the auditors selected by the Arizona Senate will perform their audit of the 2020 Election results:

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Thunberg: “choose wisely.”

Yes, I do believe I’ll take political and technological advice from a mentally-ill, teenaged school dropout.[/sarc]

“We, the young people, are the ones who are going to write about you in the history books. We are the ones who get to decide how you will be remembered. So my advice for you is to choose wisely.”

I forgot this is “Earth Day.” I need to go turn on some more lights, and fire up the grill with some bituminous coal.

Grilled endangered species, anyone?

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Analysis: “Definition of “Frame or Receiver” and Identification of Firearms”

107 pages of garbage; but I’m done. I’ll go over the high points that concern me. About half of the NPRM is new regulatory language to implement the changes in the first half.

These are my interim comments; but unless the NPRM actually published differs significantly from the draft, I’m going to formally submit the following.


I oppose this proposed rule. In elaborating on specific issues, I will quote from the NPRM with the quotes set apart from my comments with “=====”.

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A. Definition of “Firearm”

“[t]he term shall include a weapon parts kit that is designed to or may readily be assembled, completed, converted, or restored to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive.”

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This definition is useless without establishing a threshold for “readily completed.” For years, the ATF has held that an 80% frame/receiver required sufficient work to not be “readily completed. By stating that now they are, without an OBJECTIVE THRESHOLD, anything becomes a firearm: a pistol-shaped solid block; a solid ingot that can be milled into a pistol shape; a pile of soda cans that can be melted down into a block to be milled; a few cases of soda that can be emptied, melted down into a block, and milled; raw ore that can be processed into said block for milling.

There is no objective threshold.

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B. Definition of “Frame or Receiver”

“First, there would be a general definition of “frame or receiver” with non-exclusive examples that illustrate the definition.”

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That invalidates the rule. A rule that does not set an all-encompassing objective definition is not a definition.

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“Frame or receiver. A part of a firearm that provides housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate one or more fire control components, even if pins or other attachments are required to connect those components to the housing or structure. Any such part identified with a serial number shall be presumed, absent an official determination by the Director or other reliable evidence to the contrary, to be a frame or receiver. For purposes of this definition, the term “fire control component” means a component necessary for the firearm to initiate or complete the firing sequence, including any of the following: hammer, bolt or breechblock, cylinder, trigger mechanism, firing pin, striker, or slide rails.”

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By that nonsensical definition, an AR-pattern lower and AR-pattern upper are EACH firearms in their own right. Likewise, a semiautomatic frame and its slide are TWO separate firearms. In fact, it would appear to make the BOLT holding the firing pin/striker a THIRD firearm.

It would be far more rational to class the ASSEMBLY — frame AND slide, upper AND lower — as a single firearm.

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2. Firearm muffler or silencer frame or receiver

Because under the NFA each individual part of a firearm muffler or silencer is a “firearm” 41 that must be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (“NFRTR”), the
regulations currently assume that every part defined as a silencer must be marked in order to be registered, and expressly require that they be marked whenever sold, shipped, or otherwise disposed even though they may be installed by a qualified licensee within a complete muffler or silencer device.

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This is exactly the problem the proposed rule would inflict upon frames and receivers.

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Under the proposed rule, the term “frame or receiver” means, “in the case of a firearm muffler or firearm silencer, a part of the firearm that provides housing or a structure, such as an outer tube or modular piece, designed to hold or integrate one or more essential internal components of the device, including any of the following: baffles,
baffling material, or expansion chamber.”

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Sensible for once.

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3. Split or modular frame or receiver
This second supplement would define “frame or receiver” to include “in the case of a firearm with more than one part that provides housing or a structure designed to hold or integrate one or more fire control or essential components . . . each such part, unless one or more specific part(s) of the weapon is or has previously been determined by the
Director to be the frame or receiver.”

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This would create a regulatory nightmare. Is the lower a firearm? I guess it will depend on when it was made. Ditto the upper, and the bolt. What happens when a slide cracks on a pistol that previously determined that the frame was a firearm, and is replaced with a new frame that IS a firearm. How does an FFL log that (those?) into his records. How does this impact buyers in jurisdictional with a “one gun a month” limit? Do they buy the frame one mon thnd the slide the next. Unless it’s a used gun where just the frame is the firearm? But what if it had a replacement slide.

Is there anyone in the ATF with two functional brain cells?

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4. Partially complete, disassembled, or inoperable frame or receiver

For clarification, “partially complete” for purposes of this
definition “means a forging, casting, printing, extrusion, machined body, or similar article that has reached a stage in manufacture where it is clearly identifiable as an unfinished component part of a weapon.”

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Congratulations. You propose defining paperweights as firearms. I suspect the use of recreational pharmaceuticals.

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C. Definition of “Readily”
Thus, defining the term “readily” is necessary to provide further clarity
in determining when incomplete weapons or configurations of parts become a “firearm” regulated under the GCA and NFA.

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This “definition” is pointless checklist of arbitrary guesstimates. Provide an objective threshold for each.

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D. Definitions of “complete weapon” and “complete muffler or silencer device”

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This would be unnecessary if you stopped mucking with the definition of “firearm.”

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4. Marking of privately made firearms

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This proposed rule was in response to the alleged proliferation of personally made firearms outside of the regulatory system and used in crimes. Does the ATF believe that creating a system to allow the voluntary marking of PMFs will induce criminals to suddenly decide to mark and register the firearm they intend to use in crime or sell illicitly.

The question of recreational pharmaceuticals comes to mind again. Or perhaps medication is NEEDED.

To summarize, I oppose this irrational, and sometimes self-conflicting rule. It fails to address the criminal activity it alleges as its prompting. It imposes complex and expensive games of “guess if it’s a firearm, or which parts are” on FFLs. The record-keeping and retooling costs are grossly underestimated.

Rather than engage in this drug-induced rights infringement, I proposed that, in the spirit of “shall not be INFRINGED,” The National Firearms Act of 1934, Gun Control Act of 1968, and all firearm regulations be repealed,, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives be permanently disbanded. All former ATF employees should be investigated for civil rights violations under 18 U.S. Code § 242 – Deprivation of rights under color of law.

“Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”


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Draft of Proposed Rule-Making “Definition of “Frame or Receiver” and Identification of Firearms” Dropped

I’ll post an analysis of the whole thing when I’m done. Right now I’ve made it to page 32 of 107. I’m copying sections and drafting my comments for submission when commenting opens for real.

To give you an idea of how bad this is, let me show you a couple of excerpts of my comments.

Is there anyone in the ATF with two functional brain cells?

I figured I’d edit that out of the formal comment, but then I got to the next part, and this emerged from my busy fingers.

Congratulations. You propose defining paperweights as firearms. I suspect the use of recreational pharmaceuticals.

So both of those will in the formal submission.

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