"...However, Acting Director Sullivan decided, against the advice of the Chief Counsel’s Office, to declare the Akins Accelerator a machinegun." [More]So, per a sworn declaration, the genesis of this latest experiment in tyranny is because several years back Maximum Mike ignored the technical and legal experts and abused his (appointed) authority to impose his will. And that history was deliberately buried in this latest round of "rulemaking."
What “core values” are demonstrated by denying the requested information?Another reason given by the FBI for denying information was “ongoing ‘law enforcement proceeding,’” Stamboulieh observed. “The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department basically said ‘case closed,’ so, what is … proceeding?” [More]
San Francisco Launching New ‘Poop Patrol’ to Deal With Dirty Streets [More]Be fun to do a FOIA to see if their practices comply with EPA and OSHA mandates...
“DOJ is manipulating the APA to make sure that information will NOT be used to shoot down the rule,” Savage concludes. “Does ATF prosecute its firearms cases like it promulgates rules, without ever looking at the evidence? ATF is currently attempting to criminalize an industry and a large swath of the population and NEVER looked at any evidence? They claim they were ‘not allowed'? By whom?” [More]ATF's revelation seems like quite the “however,” especially considering they're pushing for a rules change.
So even if Clinton had been kept in the dark (and that has not been definitively established), the question remains why State did not pursue violations by DOJ – and who was involved in making (ordering) that outcome. [More]Curious -- just like in the beginning, no one from Congress or the media seems very interested even though there are plenty of identified threads to pull...
Mine finally posted. I included all the FOIA material received from the ATF re: bumpstocks. [More]Stephen Stamboulieh provides a wealth of information you will not see from anyone else.
Put another way, what did Hillary Clinton know and when did she know it? If the answer is she knew, then where are the authorizing documents and why was the ATF attaché to Mexico kept in the dark and told to “stand down” (see pg. 36 of Joint Staff Report) when he found out? If the answer is Clinton did not know and no such authorizing documents exist, why have charges not been filed against ATF officials as “principals” who “induced” or “willfully caused” offenses? [More]More to the point: Why is no one in jail?
"Boulder has traditionally tried to welcome different people to the community," Caldara says. "It had a registry for same-sex couples before they could legally marry, so it helped people get out of the closet. But what Boulder is doing now is putting gun owners back into a closet. And that goes against everything Boulder claims to stand for." [More]I hope he's not advocating for a registry or any form of authorizaton.
We submitted a FOIA regarding NICS and the appeals process in April 2016. Today we received documents responsive to that request. The documents produced demonstrate that the FBI and NICS were not processing appeals as required by law as alleged in all of our 18 USC 925A cases we have filed to date. On page 50 of the attached, it says "The AST has five business days to tell a denied individual the reason for their denial. However, the AST Examiners are not performing any appeal work due to the increased volume." On page 57, someone wrote this email: "We stopped processing front-end [appeals] mail on 11/25/2015." [More]It links at the end to a pdf of the production.
The Firearms Policy Coalition and the Firearms Policy Foundation have started a website called K12speech.com and a 21-page guide for parents and students meant to protect pro-gun students. I've read the guide and it is very well done. It contains sample letters and emails, documentation including relevant court rulings, tips on how to make FOIA requests, and instructions on how to document your interaction with school officials. You can download the guide here. There is also a legal action hotline and dedicated email address in order to seek help. [More]Here's the guide.
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Today we received a large production regarding a FOIA to ATF about bumpstocks and Mandalay Bay [More]Four volumes, plenty of redactions, including the official ATF report on bumps stocks (Vol. 1 (pp 671-674).
We did not set out wanting to file a lawsuit. What we wanted were answers. [More]What don't they want to share, aside from everything?
Gun owners have a vested interest in seeing the extent of what government already knew about Kelley yet failed to act on. In the face of resistance to our request, we are compelled to make the seriousness of that expectation known in no uncertain terms. [More]The Sutherland Springs killings are currently being exploited in order to advance more gun legislation and to gin up public support to go even further. So why we have to do this is part of what we're trying to find out.
The fact that careerists with the FBI still feel secure enough under the Trump administration to keep swamp levels rising should trouble all who voted for the president because they believe in the agenda he articulated while campaigning. [More]Note there's also a second petition, this one going directly to the White House, that I included a link to at the end of the article as an update.
There are multiple reasons for filing the request, AmmoLand Shooting Sports News reported when the FOIA ... was filed, primarily because it explores an area that has been left largely unresolved by official inquiries from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General. [More]The 20-day window to comply closed over a year ago. They have no intention of doing anything but continuing the in-your-face stonewalling. And if the court allows such a clear violation to prevail, it will at least be further corroboration that true peaceful redress protections are a fiction.
In their own words, some of the inspectors say they know “the register will be incomplete or inaccurate,” that “discrepancies in the NFRTR make it impossible to verify the onsite inventory,” and that they will “encounter discrepancies on a daily basis.” Yet despite that, per Hardy, “felony prosecutions are undertaken relying on the NFRTR to establish that a gun is not registered, and with evidence consisting of an affidavit from the custodian of records for the NFRTR certifying that no record of registration could be found.” [More]They know it's wrong yet they do it anyway.
