Lawyers’ comments raise troubling questions about ATF and NFA collector’s group

“Despite having acquired three machineguns illegally manufactured by George D. Clark, Mr. Brown seems to be the only FFL in that situation that ATF never referred for prosecution,” FICG asserts. “In fact, ATF knowingly left Mr. Brown in possession of that contraband for six weeks and then promptly destroyed that evidence before the completion of prosecutions of other individuals in possession of Mr. Clark's machineguns. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on between some bedfellow who aren’t as strange as you might at first imagine once you consider what’s in it for each of them…

More Public/Private Partnerships

Can you hear me now? [More]

Hey, if you're not doing anything wrong, what have you got to hide?

[Via Florida Guy]

December vBlast

Want a quick 5 minute review of what FFLGuard sent to clients last month? Or preview the tips we plan to discuss next month? Just looking for a quick ATF compliance tip, even if you're not an FFLGuard client? [Watch] 

As an old policies and procedures guy, I just don't see how anyone could be in business without making sure they have the compliance side nailed. And no, I don't get a dime from these guys. I talk about them because I am an old policies and procedures guy, and I know firsthand how critical being able to survive regulatory audits is.

A Right Delayed...

...is a right denied. [More]

A Public/Private Partnership?

Plaintiffs allege that Glock conspired with Smyrna police to gain leverage in business dispute [More]

You have to register to read this report.  It's a fascinating read.

[Via Richard Feldman]

FICG ATF Gun Trust Rulemaking Change Comment

As many of our viewers are aware, Firearms Industry Consulting Group, a division of Prince Law Offices, P.C., has spearheaded the opposition to ATF’s most recent rulemaking proposal, ATF-41P. Yesterday, we filed our formal Comment in opposition to ATF 41P. With exhibits, it is over 500 pages. You can download a copy here. [More]

Some people worked very hard at this. Very hard.

Everybody here did the bare minimum and filed a comment/informed their friends, right?

Eternal Vigilance

“I don’t think Cuomo will confiscate firearms as long as we stay vigilant and vocal... [More]

It will take more than that. It will take real fear that there will be resistance. I wonder if the fools will light the match on this powder keg to find out.

What a stool sample this guy is, out there in the field with his orange cap and Fudd gun to try and appear "reasonable."  After he pandered with a transparent divide and conquer ploy.

I wonder if there's any way to find out if he actually has a license himself, or if this was just a photo op...

[Via Neil W]

We're the Only Ones Institutionalized Enough

"Our investigation also found that these incidents did not take place in a vacuum -- in fact, they demonstrated behavior that had become institutionalized," U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. said. "The pattern of activity alleged in the obstruction of justice case shows how some members of the Sheriff's Department considered themselves to be above the law." [More]

Gee, you mean it's more than "a few bad apples" and that punk SOB "Republican" gungrabber Lee Baca is part of the problem...?

Still, coming from the DOJ, that's rich.

[Via several of you]

Crazy Mothers

So if they understand this...

How come they're citizen disarmament fanatics...?

[Via Florida Guy]

Closing the Assault Sock Monkey Loophole

Thanks to the brave men and women at the front lines of the TSA... [More]

[Via several of you]

Extended Tyranny

Oh, but it could have been worse... [More] 

Thanks, NSSF and NRA! That's one less beachhead they'll need to take.

The Virtual Opiate of the Masses

They thrive on "the old ultra-violence," but they don't want people watching it to behave that way. Maybe it's an engineered form of release, so that people can vicariously act out in their heads what a schizophrenic culture drives the weaker ones into acting out...and maybe, like drugs, what was once an adequate dose no longer satisfies, and they need to provide bigger and more and... [More]

Either that or it's easier than coming up with compelling stories and characters, and that wouldn't have mass appeal for the herd...

Beats me.

Maybe it's only a movie, at least to those with self-control, and anyone who can't be trusted to watch it or to play a "violent" video game without acting out in the real world can't be trusted without a watcher and a controller...

Maybe some are counting on that...

[Via Mike H]

I'll Take Dyslexic Production Assistants for 400, Please, Alex

Saw this last night and had to back it up to make sure...

I don't begrudge them a mistake -- I make 'em all the time.  It's just funny when we see one coming from an ostensible paragon.

The Crime Factory

I note they still refer to Gunwalker as a "botched initiative." [More]

[Via Michael G]

Placing the Blame

"We hugged him," Dix said. "We told him we knew it wasn't done on purpose." [More]

Maybe not, but that's still no reason to take it out on the rest of us.

Per something I wrote back way back when:

A loaded chamber indicator on a Beretta 92 Compact L did not stop 14-year-old Michael Soe from feloniously killing 15-year-old Kenzo Dix during a practical joke. The fact is, Soe's father left a loaded gun where an untrained, impulsive and judgmentally-challenged adolescent could find it. In their lawsuit, backed by CPHV, Dix's parents maintained, among other charges, that the chamber indicator was inadequate because the gun was not inscribed with a warning as well. Presumably, were Beretta to do so, they would still be deemed negligent for not including such warnings in Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese and Tagalog.

I suppose we should be grateful that a couple positive examples of gun ownership were also included. I understand that's quite unprecedented for the Contra Costa Times.

[Via Dave Licht]

The Warm Zone

If we had truly "commonsense gun laws," they wouldn't stay hot for very long. [More]

[Via Dave Licht]

The Song of Horawitza

By the shores of Gunnee-Grabbee... [More]

This Day in History: December 10

General Greene will have given Your Excellency a detail of his brilliant and rapid manoeuvre on the enemys left, which induced the abandonment of their posts at Goose Creek and Dorchester, and their contracting themselves within the limits of their works on Charles Town Neck. By every report of fugitive Tories and other deserters from thence, they appear still to be laboring under all the apprehensions of a Siege, and to be preparing themselves in consequence with unremitting diligence. [More]