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1. On April 8, 2025 at 9:04 pm, Randolph Scott said:

   There is too much money for the fed to make suppresors legal.

2. On April 9, 2025 at 12:34 pm, MTHead said:

   And the argument should have always been; If you have a right to defend my person and others.
   Doesn’t that include “MY” hearing???? And others?
   The government cannot exclude a portion of your body from protection and “SELF”-defense.
   How F’ ing arrogant.

3. On April 9, 2025 at 12:44 pm, scott s. said:

   I kind of doubt the tax obtained from making / transfer pays for the cost of administration. But regardless of what Congress does in regards to NFA, I think the case is going to have a hard time.

   “The Court agrees with the conclusion and reasoning of the cases cited above. A silencer is neither a weapon in itself, nor a defensive armor. As Plaintiff concedes, it is an accessory. Nor does Plaintiff dispute that, unlike ammunition, a silencer is an accessory unnecessary to the essential operation of a firearm—however desirable the silencer may be to a user in reducing noise, flash, or recoil, or in allowing the user to stay hidden while firing. See Cox, 906 F.3d at 1186 (rejecting arguments that silencers merit Second Amendment protection because they protect the shooter’s hearing, reduce “muzzle flinch” and disorientation, enhance shooting accuracy, and save time in a defense situation; silencers are nonetheless accessories rather than “bearable arms”). The Court concludes that silencers are not “bearable arms” for purposes of the Second Amendment. Accordingly, Plaintiff’s facial constitutional challenge to Section 33410 fails to state a claim.”

4. On April 9, 2025 at 1:35 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:

   The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms exists to do the dirty work of regulating firearms that Congressmen and Senators can’t – or won’t – be seen doing themselves.

   The Second Amendment enjoy wide support among the population of the U.S. and the smart politician knows that it is something of a third rail, which may electrocute you if you touch it. That depends on who/where, of course – gun control does play well in some districts – but generally, it is true.

   Conversely, among members of the ruling class, including a great many inside the Beltway of D.C., support for gun control is high, if not always expressed in public. The ruling class and deep-state do not like the idea of the great unwashed out in Flyover Land having access to such weapons.

   But if Congressman Smith, for example, goes before his constituents and argues for gun control, he knows he may lose next election season. Yet, he has a group of powerful and influential donors willing to write some rather large checks to his campaign fund if he would just support the latest restrictions on firearms. And he’d very much like that dough… what to do?

   Enter the ATF, one of the dozens of regulatory bureaucracies to be found in Washington. Ostensibly established to track down arms traffickers and organized crime figures, the agency has in reality been used as a de facto political weapon against the public as much as anything else.

   Over the years, the ATF has surpassed its mandate and “gone rogue” many times – not to mention that it is unconstitutional on its face – but the agency rolls on, as well-funded and influential as before. One might think that Congress, who are charged with the oversight of such bodies, would have at least censured the agency, or cut its funding to bring it into line. These things by and large have not occurred, and the agency executives have at times been openly contemptuous of members of Congress.

   Why? What is going on?

   It’s been fifty years since the ATF was created. Despite its long train of abuses, misconduct of various kinds and infringements of the rights & liberties of ordinary Americans, it remains well-funded and a going concern. This can only be because of a few possibilities: Clearly, either Congress can’t act for some reason – or won’t.

   The ATF, like so many three-letter agencies, is a part of the shadow government or deep-state in Washington. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) once spoke of his hands-off attitude about the three-letter agencies, saying that they had a lot of ways to get back at you, or words to that effect. I am certainly no fan of the man, but in this case, he was speaking the truth.

   Reading between the lines, the members of Congress are afraid to move against the deep-state or any part of it, for fear of the consequences.

   Another possibility is that far-more members of Congress approve of the ATF and its actions than they are letting on to the public. Stated plainly, the agency continues to exist and receive funding because the members of Congress want it to do so.

   There are a small number of dissenters within the GOP MAGA Congressional caucus who have had the courage to address the ATF’s misdeeds, but they are too few in number to sway the outcome.

   And as the readers of this fine blog already know, many members of the GOP establishment are just as bad on 2A issues as most Democrats.

5. On April 9, 2025 at 1:41 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:

   Getting back to Congressman Smith, because of the ATF, he can have his cake and eat it, too.

   He can tell his high-dollar donors that he is supporting ATF efforts to “control guns,” and on that basis, he can be counted as an ally in the movement. They write him those big checks to thank him. Everyone goes away happy.

   And thanks to the ATF doing the work he can’t be seen to be doing, Congressman Smith can go before his constituents and proclaim his undying support of the 2A and gun rights. He gets re-elected and everyone goes away happy.

   Only his staff and a few savvy observers cotton to the fact that the Honorable Mr. Smith is a two-faced, dishonest shyster who would sell his own mother if the price was right!

6. On April 10, 2025 at 1:08 am, Nosmo said:

   ATF’s existence is largely to perform as “political insulation” as Georgiaboy61 points out, offering a level of Managed Perception Protection to The Electeds. That it sometimes “goes off on its own” randomly is just a maladjustment of the operational mechanism.

   I’ve reached the conclusion that the majority of our problems are centered among The Electeds and Trump’s stripping of the bureaucratic insulation from them may turn out to be more valuable than it first appears.

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