New ATF brace rule forces destruction of imported pistols
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 9 months ago
Following what appears to be a terrible flaw in the pistol brace rule that will entrap gun owners, this report comes to us concerning another consequence of what they’ve said. What a terrible mess, all by design.
This lawyer makes another relevant and disturbing point.
Article 1, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the U.S. Constitution says this: “No Bill of Attainder or ex-post facto Law will be passed.”
I guess what the constitution says isn’t important anymore.
Apparently some LEOs don’t like it because their Ox is being gored. It would be nice if they would step up based on principle rather than expedience. So, go cry me a river unless until you step up and do the right thing regardless of the effect on you.
On January 22, 2023 at 11:36 pm, Dan said:
It’s a feature…not a bug. Deliberate.
On January 23, 2023 at 11:28 am, J said:
Can anyone here quote the last time the ATF or any 3 letter agency protected or cared about your constitutional rights? I’ll wait for your answer.
On January 23, 2023 at 1:44 pm, Warren V. DeCee said:
26 USC 5848
On January 23, 2023 at 2:17 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Re:”Article 1, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the U.S. Constitution says this: “No Bill of Attainder or ex-post facto Law will be passed.”
I’m no attorney, but in regards to the whole AR pistol issue, do not the actions of the ATF over the last decade or so fit the classic definition of entrapment? And isn’t that supposed to be illegal and off-limits?
@ J
Re: “Can anyone here quote the last time the ATF or any 3 letter agency protected or cared about your constitutional rights? I’ll wait for your answer.”
And you’re still waiting!! That is sort of the whole point of the existence of “regulatory agencies” in the first place, isn’t it?
By relegating their duties as legislators to so-called regulatory agencies, the members of Congress can then look their constituents in the eye back home at the local town-hall meeting and say straight-faced that they support the Second Amendment, while in reality the ATF et al. do the dirty work. The members can also then claim to their powerful and wealthy patrons who favor gun control that they are doing something about the issue, while pointing at the ATF or whoever it happens to be.
In other words, it is a way of having their cake and eating it, too. Although gambits like this are certainly slick, they are also unethical and entirely outside the framework agreed upon by the Founders. Which, too, is sort of the point. The permanent political establishment pretends the constitution doesn’t exist – except of course when referring to it helps them in some manner, which is when they start dusting off their copies of that document and waving them in people’s faces.
On January 23, 2023 at 2:46 pm, scott s. said:
922(r) is an insidious bit of law I think intended to trap the unwary.
On January 23, 2023 at 3:34 pm, PGF said:
@GB, it’s a fatal flaw, little discussed, in the constitution. Congress was granted what amounts to unlimited authority to create “departments” of government. We ended up so far with two internal security departments, Justice and DHS, with many sub agencies.
On January 23, 2023 at 3:37 pm, Herschel Smith said:
@scott s.,
I agree, and it all comes from the silly notion of “sporting purposes.”
On January 24, 2023 at 12:39 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ PGF
Re: “@GB, it’s a fatal flaw, little discussed, in the constitution. Congress was granted what amounts to unlimited authority to create “departments” of government.”
Indeed it is…. the idea that our society is so complex that only highly-trained specialists and experts are capable of running it properly – is an age-old lie that dates back to Frederick Taylor’s theories of “scientific management” in the latter half of the 1800s.
Agencies, bureaus and whatnot staffed with vast armies of anonymous “experts” and bureaucrats proved to be the key which unlocked the door to the vast expansion of the federal government over the last century or so. It began to gain steam under Teddy Roosevelt, but really took off during the Great War and the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. FDR took up where Wilson left off, and you probably know the rest.