An Aluminum Box = Gun
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 10 months ago
Via David Codrea, our friend Dave Hardy is trying to help out fight the forces of totalitarianism.
BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today filed an amicus brief in a federal case that is trying to force the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to define certain firearms components as “firearms.”
“Forcing ATF to adopt the new approach to classification of certain gun components that the plaintiffs in this case are demanding would greatly expand ATF authority beyond the 1968 Gun Control Act,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “If their effort succeeds, it would violate rights protected by the Second Amendment by imposing restrictions on otherwise lawful Second Amendment activity excluded from the GCA.”
Consistent with congressional intent under the GCA, ATF long ago determined that unfinished frame and receiver blanks without any machine work or indexing have not yet reached a stage of manufacture in which they are classified as firearm frames or receivers under the GCA. Various special interests are now challenging ATF’s interpretation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case is known as City of Syracuse, NY et al v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives et al.
The lawsuit was filed last year by the Cities of Syracuse, N.Y., San Jose, Calif., Chicago, Ill., and Columbia, S.C. along with the billionaire-backed Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. In addition to ATF as an agency, defendants include Acting ATF director Regina Lombardo in her official capacity, plus the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney General.
At issue are such things as frame blanks or partially-manufactured frames for firearms, also commonly known as “80% frames” or “unfinished receivers.”
Because you see, unless you’re a member of a control freak cult, a box of aluminum is just a box of aluminum. Beyond that, a complete receiver is just an additional collection of springs and a few parts.
On February 3, 2021 at 11:49 pm, Nashville Rebel Soundtrack said:
What are they so afraid of?
Don’t they feel the unity of the glorious comrade’s collective?
Comrade kommissar Bloomberg could just make up some aluminum gun free zone signs.
Problem solved at a low cost.
He spent $60 million during the 2020 (s)election campaign according to the NY Times.
On February 4, 2021 at 12:04 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Nashville Rebel
Re: “Comrade kommissar Bloomberg could just make up some aluminum gun free zone signs. Problem solved at a low cost. He spent $60 million during the 2020 (s)election campaign according to the NY Times.”
That’s the same guy who has the gall to demand that ordinary people be disarmed, while he remains safe-and-sound behind a security detail armed with automatic weapons and state of the art technology.
And while his party demands that police forces take a knee to Antifa and BLM or be disbanded entirely, Bloomberg hired his entire private security detail off the New City Police Department when he departed as mayor of that city. It’s nice to be king, I guess. The man apparently doesn’t know -or care to know – the definition of the word “hypocrisy”…. rules are for the little people, and all of that.
On February 4, 2021 at 12:24 am, scott s. said:
Since we’ve had 922 (r) it’s just a matter of time that more of this BS comes up. Here is “paradise” of Hawaii it’s legislature session season, so we get a steady stream of idiot gun bills. Latest is a ban on” any firearm or rifle with the capacity to fire ammunition of fifty caliber or higher”. Assuming “ammunition of fifty caliber” has some actual meaning (seems this language comes from Gifford nonsense). (Under current HI law, NFA destructive devices in general aren’t prohibited, but there is a prohibition on “cannons”.)
On February 4, 2021 at 7:14 am, John said:
The expedient 12 Gauge “pipe gun” that consisted of 2 pieces of pipe a nail and a threaded end cap comes to mind. The Phillipino’s killed a lot of Japanese soldiers with those plumbing store
parts.
On February 4, 2021 at 10:48 am, billrla said:
Why don’t we just ask the block of aluminum what it wants to be when it grows up? Perhaps, put it through a psychological exam. That’s where all this is going. The controllers are incapable of keeping to themselves.
On February 5, 2021 at 12:41 am, X said:
Wake up, all you people who think that your 80% lower is going to save your gun “rights.” The New York State Senate passed a bill that makes it a FELONY TO ASSEMBLE ANY FIREARM FROM PARTS. (Hasn’t passed the lower house… yet).
If FedGov passes a national “assault weapons ban,” they will criminalize possession of parts under “constructive possession” just like they do with Class III machine guns.
This is where all this stuff is headed.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s7763/amendment/a