Reliable and NRA don't belong in the same sentence without the words corrupt and mismanagement.
Need to get rid of that fagbag LaPierre and put someone competent in his place.
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Reliable and NRA don't belong in the same sentence without the words corrupt and mismanagement.
I’ve been studying the NFA and related legal discussions on the 2A since I was a kid, because I asked the adults I respected who should have been knowledgeable about the subject, “Grandpa, Dad, why can’t I have an M-16? I want an M-16."This common argument is a flawed argument. The danger of using the extreme exception to invalidate the rule is that nearly EVERYTHING can be invalidated by some exception.
Consider the following:
Because hate speech is hateful, clearly free speech can't be allowed and must be regulated. Are you ok with people calling blacks the N-word?
Because some religions are extreme, such as The Peoples Temple in Jonestown, clearly freedom of religion can't be allowed. Therefore religion should be regulated by the government. Do you support people committing mass suicide in religious services?
The right to assembly should be regulated. Because if we don't, Nazi sympathizers might assemble. Can't have that. Do you support the right of Neo-Nazi's to have political rallies?
And all that's just the first amendment. The word "regulated" in that time period did not mean restricted by laws, and you know it. The intent of the framers was that the people should have the ability and tools to form an army and depose tyranny if necessary. This means having access to wayyyy more weaponry than law currently allows. SBR's are childs play compared to what a "well regulated milita" of citizens should have.
In regards to nuclear weapons, the truth is that weapons too dangerous for individuals to wield are too dangerous for governments to posses as well. Because in the end, all weapons are wielded by individuals. The fact that we've already crossed that rubicon is NOT logical justification for the restriction of 2A. See it for what it is, a very regrettable exception.
If you haven’t read through the NRA President and Executive Officer’s testimonies before Congress during the NFA Hearings, they are a mixed bag. Without them, especially President Karl T. Fredrick, pistols would have been NFA items since that time, which was one of the main targets of Organized Crime stooge and US Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings.Need to get rid of that fagbag LaPierre and put someone competent in his place.
<... >Within minutes of the AG saying a registration scheme would be unconstitutional, a numbskull retard from Minnesota, Congressman Knutson,
Damn those numbskull retard legislators from Minnesota.
Another thing that’s absolutely crazy about the NFA: They never even discussed silencers. I can’t find mention of silencers other than them being listed in the draft and the final bill. Other people have mentioned this, but since I don’t trust anyone to do my reading for me, I poured through the whole thing myself, highlighting and tabbing pages where these egregious violations of our laws jump out. Nothing about silencers, mufflers, or suppressors is ever discussed.
Imagine an accessory that was never even discussed in legislation leading to the arrest and imprisonment of untold numbers of people, taxed at $200 a pop, with threats of $250,000 fines and imprisonment up to 10 years.
100% unconstitutional, illegal, and criminal misuse of the legislative process. Also, punishable by USC 18 sections 241 and 242.
That's the best possible scenario.Seems to me that this new ATF scam about braces is a great opportunity for SCOTUS, to right a major wrong with all of this NFS nonsense
The NRA is not on our side, and hasn't been for years.![]()
NRA-ILA | Updates to ATF Final Rule on Stabilizing Braces
On Monday, January 30, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) published the final Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached “Stabilizing Braces” rule for public inspection in the federal register.www.nraila.org
There are some interesting clarifications in this article, and considering it comes from NRA I consider that info reliable.
It wouldn't have taken 40 years if we still had balls like they did 250 years ago. They must shrink and become useless over time.At this time I am convinced that we can get silencers and SBRs ripped out of the NFA by challenging them in court for review under Bruen.
The last weeks have seen TROs and rulings against:
New Assault Weapons Bans and firearm restrictions (IL/NJ/NY)
Existing Assault Weapons Bans and magazine restrictions (CA)
loss of 2nd amendment rights for people under restraining orders (TX) (Was this the Lautenberg rule?)
loss of 2nd amendment rights for people with drug convictions (MJ) (Oklahoma)
loss of carry privileges for non-violent felony convictions
TRO against existing CT AOW restrictions due to ATF Pistol Brace reclassifications (this is huge and impacts other states wherein the ex-Pistol is now an illegal AOW)
Getting a court case where the silencer/SBR portions of the NFA are challenged under Bruen historical text and tradition standards should see them eliminated. A key element in said review of laws is where the judge has to eliminate the govt right to act for public safety reasons (I forget the legal term for this). Its been a key weapon for them and its gone.
The left and the gun control loonies are only starting to realize that just about everything they accomplished in the last 40 years is slowing getting flushed down the shitter.
Maybe we need some Total-TIt wouldn't have taken 40 years if we still had balls like they did 250 years ago. They must shrink and become useless over time.
Problem is the findings get appealed and held up in courts forever and the citizen continues to get screwed out of their rights! What punishment is there for passing blatantly un-Constitutional laws? Rhetorical question, I know the answer.At this time I am convinced that we can get silencers and SBRs ripped out of the NFA by challenging them in court for review under Bruen.
The last weeks have seen TROs and rulings against:
New Assault Weapons Bans and firearm restrictions (IL/NJ/NY)
Existing Assault Weapons Bans and magazine restrictions (CA)
loss of 2nd amendment rights for people under restraining orders (TX) (Was this the Lautenberg rule?)
loss of 2nd amendment rights for people with drug convictions (MJ) (Oklahoma)
loss of carry privileges for non-violent felony convictions
TRO against existing CT AOW restrictions due to ATF Pistol Brace reclassifications (this is huge and impacts other states wherein the ex-Pistol is now an illegal AOW)
Getting a court case where the silencer/SBR portions of the NFA are challenged under Bruen historical text and tradition standards should see them eliminated. A key element in said review of laws is where the judge has to eliminate the govt right to act for public safety reasons (I forget the legal term for this). Its been a key weapon for them and its gone.
The left and the gun control loonies are only starting to realize that just about everything they accomplished in the last 40 years is slowing getting flushed down the shitter.
The Great Depression, World War II, and 1950s-forward involved a lot of public schooling and media propaganda to promote the idea that FDR and Progressives were the American Way, while making movies about Eliot Ness and his hand-selected band of agents tackling organized crime. It was all BS designed to lull people into sheep.It wouldn't have taken 40 years if we still had balls like they did 250 years ago. They must shrink and become useless over time.
Why, because then we would miss out on high quality contributions like yours!Why don’t some of you fucktards proofread your posts before you make yourselves look so stupid?
NRA has screwed up a lot of things but they fought the 1994 AWB with one of the most energetic campaigns against 2A violations of their history. They also fought the 1989 CA AWB Roberti-Roos Bill with a big front-page fold-out add showing all the types of rifles the CA AWB would ban in the April '89 American Rifleman.The NRA helped Biden to get the first AWB passed. That should have told all of you everything you needed to know
100% I agree with this statement. I too am a life member and they will not got one more penny from me until this regime is gone.The NRA is not on our side, and hasn't been for years.
I'm a Benefactor Life member. I've purchased Life memberships for my wife, son, daughter, and daughter-in-law. Up until Oct. 2017, I made quarterly donations to the ILA. You could say I'm invested in the NRA.
On Oct. 2nd, 2017, I mailed a check for $500 to the ILA. On Oct. 5th, I put a stop-payment on that check and ordered tar and feathers from Amazon and had them sent to Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox. The NRA will not get another nickel from me until Wayne & Co. are gone and I see that the NRA is back on track.
My wife and I, along with several friends, were at the 2019 convention when WLPs shenanigans started to come really come to light. I was able to meet LTC. West, shake his hand, and thank him for what he was trying to do. A few other board members who where on our side, as well. Tim Knight stands out.
The current incarnation of the NRA needs to be burned to the ground.
...Armed Overly Explanatory Scholar on youtube...
That is exactly what I did, for the same reasons. His shitty titles sound like there was a ruling and its rarely the case.I had to unsubscribe from that guy. His click bait titles and 5-9 minute videos where his final conclusion is "its still in the courts hands" are unwatchable to me now.
If I recall correctly they were added due to fears of “poaching” for meat during the Great Depression, livestock or otherwise.Yes, silencers are only mentioned in the initial and final drafts. They were never discussed during the 5 days of actual hearings. No reasons, discussions, conversations, questions, or testimony was recorded about why silencers were included in the NFA.
People have speculated for generations about why Silencers/Mufflers were included in the NFA. We just don’t have any discussion from the proceedings to explain the reasoning behind it. There are no source documents or discussions from the 1934 NFA hearings that I’m aware of, and scholars throughout the years have searched, finding nothing. It’s one reason why I printed out the NFA and studied it so extensively over the years. I had assumed that they had at least one little conversation or mentioning of why they included silencers/mufflers. They simply didn’t.If I recall correctly they were added due to fears of “poaching” for meat during the Great Depression, livestock or otherwise.
We’ve had a lot of wins over the past 30 years.The is no such thing as Justice, let alone equal justice under the law. They (both parties) trample over the Constitution every day. And when has the Republican Party when they had majorities done anything about this or any other egregious laws (death tax, emanate domain, and many others)? They don't stand with us and neither does the Supreme Court. Lower your expectations to zero so you won't be disappointed yet again. Until the head of the snake is removed, it will be death by 1000 cuts.
Sorry to be Debbie Downer but those are the facts.
And you quoted me why? Please spare me your cheerleading and pretty pictures. Until Republicans in Congress stop abdicating their responsibilities, throw people in jail and proactively defend the constitution, this slow burning of our rights will continue. Thirty years to chip away at the injustices THEY allowed to happen is the part you got right. They had many chances to deal with an out of control ATF and they did nothing.We’ve had a lot of wins over the past 30 years.
When I was a kid, Concealed Carry was only for "special people", relatively unheard of outside of Diane Feinstein and her Husband, judges, LEOs, and security guards for those "special people”. We went from that to a wave of shall-issue States, and now a new wave of Constitutional carry States:
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AR-15s were seen as something negative by a lot of gun owners, with no useful or legitimate purpose other than to buy because people saw them in movies. If you were a new AR-15 manufacturer at SHOT, you were seen as an eyesore.
The general consensus among academia and the liberal elites who controlled media and universities was that the 2A was an outdated concept with no bearing to modern America, and was only for a militia that no longer exists. Heller kinda curb-stomped that from a SCOTUS perspective.
"Saturday Night Specials” were the targeted firearm class at the time, "inherently-evil with no purpose other than cheap kills in the inner city”. Multiple SCOTUS decisions have eliminated that faulty concept.
The Clinton/Biden/Feinstein Assault Weapons Ban went into effect in 1994. Spine-split, dented, unreliable pre-ban AR-15 mags went for $60-$80 a pop. LEO Glock Mags with the LE/Gov’t Use Only markings ironed out by scammers went for the same. Rifle manufacturers were using existing surplus magazines to design actions around, like ArmaLite Inc., CMMG, RRA, etc. Even 2 years into the Clinton AWB, this is what the cover of American Rifleman looked like:
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Silencers were as rare as hens teeth. I never saw anyone with one in many years of shooting across multiple States, most of which were very friendly States to NFA items ownership pre-1986, back when it was easy to Form-1 an SP-1 into select fire.
Contrast that with today....
CCW is almost the National standard, which is our biggest win in practical terms of day-to-day self and family protection against criminal opportunists.
AR-15s became as common as 10/22s and then proliferated even more. It’s not uncommon for gun owners to have multiple AR-15s now, and the chamberings for them have increased to support hunting, long range, subsonic suppressed, and long list of wild-catters, collectors, HD, pistol AR-15s by the tens of millions even among 1st-time buyers...
Gun advertisements have almost become standardized with AR-15s as the unquestioned firearm of the US.
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Where I live, every time I’ve gone to the range over the past 15 years, someone usually has at least one suppressed firearm, myself included.
When I go to matches out of State, several competitors are shooting suppressed and the silencer industry is more vibrant than it has ever been.
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The real loss was a mixed bag with a win in 1986 with FOPA, where list-keeping was forbidden, but anti-freedom types slipped in the Hughes Amendment at the tail end of the debate and closed the MG registry to newly-manufactured MGs.
But it has mostly been win after win at the National level. State level has been a mixed bag as of late, but pistol braces allowed people to own AR-15s in States where AR-15 rifles were banned.
There’s a ton of legislative and judicial momentum in our favor. 26 States filing lawsuit against DOJ/AG/ATF over this is a big deal.
I agree with you, but despite all of the RINOs, we got common use CCW for millions, Constitutional Carry in 25 States so far, AR-15s in most gun-owner homes, widespread general use of suppressors, and now over 40 million PDW pistols with braces.And you quoted me why? Please spare me your cheerleading and pretty pictures. Until Republicans in Congress stop abdicating their responsibilities, throw people in jail and proactively defend the constitution, this slow burning of our rights will continue. Thirty years to chip away at the injustices THEY allowed to happen is the part you got right. They had many chances to deal with an out of control ATF and they did nothing.
And you quoted me why? Please spare me your cheerleading and pretty pictures. Until Republicans in Congress stop abdicating their responsibilities, throw people in jail and proactively defend the constitution, this slow burning of our rights will continue. Thirty years to chip away at the injustices THEY allowed to happen is the part you got right. They had many chances to deal with an out of control ATF and they did nothing.
Glad I could help you understand.
Be careful patting yourself on the back before you dislocate your shoulder again.Glad I could help you understand.
History pornI’ve been studying the NFA and related legal discussions on the 2A since I was a kid, because I asked the adults I respected who should have been knowledgeable about the subject, “Grandpa, Dad, why can’t I have an M-16? I want an M-16."
I heard all kinds of evasive answers that told me they didn’t really know. I eventually learned it had something to do with some agency called the ATF and legislation Congress passed in 1934 to go after gangsters, which still didn’t make any sense. “What does this have to do with me and my M-16?"
I then learned that I could get an M-16, if we applied for the right paperwork, paid a special tax to exercise that right to this weird agency. It seemed odd and much different than the normal process of just going to the gun store and buying one. It never made sense.
Fast forward several decades, after learning more and seeing conflicting information from various dealers, supposed experts, gun writers, and Fudds, and I got tired of all the speculation and just printed out the 1934 NFA Hearings, held by the 73rd Congress on April 16, 18, and May 14, 15, and 16 of that year.
What I read was astounding. These guys had no real respect for the Constitution, and were pretty brazen in how they approached its restrictions. The AG was an abject retard who thought there were 500,000 gangsters roaming around with Thompson SMGs and Colt Automatics (1911s). The Asst AG was equally deficit in the brains department. Colt had to be brought in to testify that they had only made a limited number of them for Auto Ordnance, and most of them went to police, banks, postal service, USMC, and the FBI. They had been on the civilian market since 1921, but didn’t sell well due to their price.
For those that don’t know, former DNC Chairman and then Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, was one of the main proponents and drafters of the NFA. Very early on in the testimony on Day 1, the following exchange took place between Congressman McClintic and the AG:
MR. McCLINTIC: I would like to ask just one question. I am very much interested in this subject. What in your opinion would be the constitutionality of a provision added to this bill which would require registration, on the part of those who now own the type or class of weapons that are included in this bill?
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS: We were afraid of that, sir.
MR. McCLINTIC: Afraid it would conflict with State laws?
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS: I am afraid it would be unconstitutional.
Former DNC Chairman and then Attorney General Homer Still Cummings
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As you read through the NFA hearings, you find crazy things like this on almost every page.
AG Cummings basically wanted a way to arrest and convict guys like Dillinger (they mentioned Dillinger many times throughout the hearings) without any due process:
AG Cummings: "…And I am assuming in all this, of course, that the criminal elements are not going to obtain permits and they are not going to obtain licenses, and they are not going to be able to bring themselves within those protective requirements. Therefore, when we capture one of those people, we have simply a plain question to propound to him—where is your license; where is your permit? If he cannot show it, we have got him and his weapons and we do not have to go through an elaborate trial, with all kinds of complicated questions arising. That is the theory of the bill.”
"Now, you say that it is easy for criminals to get weapons. I know it; but I want to make it easy to convict them when they have the weapons. That is the point of it. I do not expect criminals to comply with this law; I do not expect the underworld to be going around giving their fingerprints and getting permits to carry these weapons, but I want to be in a position, when I find such a person, to convict him because he has not complied.”
Summary: I want to avoid due process of law when I find a suspected bootlegger, bank robber, or gangster and charge him with firearms possession, with no real way for him to defend himself in court.
The NFA was drafted as a knee-jerk reaction to the criminal gangsters that Congress created with Prohibition, but only the ones who hadn’t bought off enough Congressmen, Senators, Presidents, Mayors, Police Chiefs, etc. Prohibition thoroughly corrupted the US from sea to shining sea, with a few exceptions in dry counties.
The huge bootlegger bosses like Joseph P. Kennedy and Arnold Rothstein didn’t like the smaller ones edging into their markets, so they used corrupt law enforcement to go after the "little operations”. So Papa Joe Kennedy’s net worth went from $4 million to $180 million in 6 years, while Al Capone got rolled up and charged with tax evasion, sent to Alcatraz.
JFK (L), Papa Joe (center), and Joe Jr. (killed in APHRODITE in WWII)
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Drunkard Eliot Ness (L), Chicago Outfit Crime Boss Al Capone (R)
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The boozer Eliot Ness then got sent away from the big cities to persecute bootleggers in the Ozarks and Ohio, even burning down shanty towns looking for his suspects. 3 failed marriages and a DUI accident later, and he was a washed-up common bum telling stories at the local bar before he died a drunk at age 54. Hollywood (a creation of organized crime) would idolize him right along with the gangsters in films. In ATF lore, Eliot Ness is a hero to be emulated, while the truth about his life has been suppressed and replaced with a comic book story for the masses.
The NFA was drafted after Prohibition ended in 1933, but there were still residual opportunists engaged in organized and violent crime in its wake. The big gangsters had taken over the government by that stage:
1. Papa Joe Kennedy was made the new SEC Chairman after swindling millions from people in Wall St. scams.
2. FDR was in the WH with Kennedy money and Hollywood influence having gotten him elected, along with help from other big organized crime bosses.
3. Meyer Lansky organized a multi-billion organization called The National Crime Syndicate, whose revenue were being invested into legitimate businesses and political briberies.
The big gangsters were rolling in cash-flow from prostitution, illegal narcotics, import duties secured for alcohol during Prohibition at bargain deals, racketeering, gambling halls, slot machine parlors, night clubs and expanding their empire across the US after solidifying its foothold during Prohibition. It was now in their interests to protect the banks where they deposited their collective billions each year. They didn’t like little wannabe gangsters like Dillinger and Bonny and Clyde running around upsetting things, so just as they corrupted law enforcement during Prohibition in all the major cities, it was now time to expand the same model to the Federal level and go after the little gangsters.
It should be no surprise that Homer Stille Cummings was the DNC Chairman who campaigned hard for FDR to get elected. The DNC was thoroughly in-bed with the unions and organized crime. The unions had seen a huge decline in members from 1923-1933, but when FDR got elected, one of the first acts he passed was the collective bargaining ability under the National Industrial Recovery Act of June, 1933. That act created the Public Works Administration as well, and laid the groundwork for a resurgence of unions in the US.
Anyway, such was the political, legal, and criminal nature of US government at the time. Under that context, we read through the NFA Hearings of 1934. If you’re not much of a reader, suffice it to know that the AG and proponent of the NFA openly admitted it was unconstitutional on Day 1.
It actually saddens me beyond words this country's state of affairs. I'm watching it get flushed down the toilet almost real time, and yes to some degree venting here. Then there are morons like you among us on top of everything else!Be careful patting yourself on the back before you dislocate your shoulder again.
And get a wheel or 3 of cheese to go with your whine.