Absolutely, we shouldn’t push the bullshit gun laws on the books, we should beg on our knees and be thankful for the scraps from the table. Go get ‘‘em tiger.
If you do not like the 25mph speed limit around your school, then the way to get that removed is to obtain majority consent from your fellow citizens for a higher limit, convey this to your local representatives, and have the rules (aka laws) changed.
Expecting law enforcement to look the other way when people break or blatantly circumvent the laws on a large scale is not the solution. We saw where that goes in Portland and we did not like it for one bit. So, apply the golden rule here and do not expect to get away with shenanigans that you would not tolerate on the receiving end. Similarly, you cannot and should not expect ATF to ignore the blatant undermining of laws that have been in the books for 36 years and survived 9 presidential elections (you can figure out the number of different administrations).
As I have said in my prior post, I do not endorse some of the methods they use to enforce these laws but ATF is not the address you send your request to change these laws to. That would be your congressional representatives. If those representatives do not give a hoot about your desire to own a machine gun for less than 10k without background check and registration, than that is not ATF's fault or is it?
I am fully aware that ATF leadership currently caters to the needs and demands of the DNC like the rest of the alphabet soup. Yes, that 4th, unelected branch of government is a serious problem for a functioning constitutional republic. But you are not going to reduce that problem by marketing stupid gimmicks, which gives them the opportunity to "legally" push their agenda even deeper.
Nobody had any problem with people bump firing until some morons decided to mass market bump stocks. After that got shot down under Trump, some imbeciles decided to double down by marketing lightning links as coat racks and were surprised when that got them uncomfortably close to club fed. Well, let's triple down with marketing "solvent traps" (hint hint). FRTs, etc. Don't those geniuses realize that they are just giving the grabbers in the regulating agency more opportunity and legitimacy to grab?
Let me give you another example. Congress tasked ATF with the regulation of commerce, transportation, and storage of explosives. That does not include the manufacturing of explosives for non-commercial use. Consequently, mixing an oxidizer and a metal powder to create an exploding target is perfectly legal as long as you do not transport, store, or sell the resulting explosive. You can also -as of today- synthesize every explosive on the ATF list legally under the same constraints. Make it, use it, be done with it and do not sell it or profit from it in any other way.
ATF is fully aware of this "loophole" but assumes correctly that those who have obtained the detailed knowledge and have figured out the technical details without losing their fingers, eyesight, or lives are unlikely to cause trouble large enough to necessitate a change in the laws. ATF is also aware of several forums where organic chemistry, including energetics, is discussed but does not see the need to act since the people in the know refuse to spoon feed the thrill seeking idiots or potential criminals.
Then comes a genius like FPS Russia and finds it prudent to blow shit up with massive amounts of Tannerite on a very popular and monetized(!) YouTube channel. Unsurprisingly, he gets hammered by ATF in a clear cut case of someone using explosives in commerce without the required license (which he could have easily and cheaply obtained).
That brilliant move not only cost him his privileges to own NFA items and other guns but with every additional knucklehead blowing shit up with Tannerite on YouTube we are getting closer to the manufacturing of explosives for immediate and non-commercial use becoming severely restricted.
This provoked legislative or regulatory action would not only negatively affect the attention whores on YouTube but also a massive amount of legitimate explosive users who use binaries to avoid the increased costs and hassle associated with shipping and storing regulated explosives.
There are currently several companies manufacturing binary high explosives (equivalent to Dynamite) who could legally sell kits to every Dick and Harry. They could -similar to the "solvent trap" charade- pretend that the components would be useful for lighting a campfire in the absence of a regulated detonator. Fortunately, they are smarter and know what the irrevocable, negative consequences of this short term profiteering would be.
Let me close with another analogy. If you have figured out a way to drastically lower your taxes in an unintended but technically legal way, would you publish or sell this on the fucking internet, skyline yourself to the IRS for a nasty audit, and get that "loophole" closed? I hope you would be smarter than that.