In case you don’t follow the industry blogs, ATFE has been on a bit of tear lately ‘reclassifying’ certain guns. They seem to have a particular mean-on for a bunch of the ‘rulebeater’ guns that have been coming out. Most notable as of late, a ‘firearm’ shotgun with wrist brace and the bizarre-but-give-em-points-for-trying Reformation AR.
ATFE has finally, it appears, started to get it’s battle plan together on how to deal with the not-a-shotguns and the whole ‘wrist brace’ issue. I’ve been predicting for a while that at some point ATFE would work up the cajones to address those things. They’ve waited long enough that there are so many of those things out there right now that if everyone decides to keep them and do a $200 transfer there’s going to be a bit of a surplus in ATFE’s budget. Maybe that was the plan all along.
Or maybe those two guns were just outliers and ATFE will stick with their current classification of the other guns. You know, kind of how they stuck with their classification of bump stocks and the like.
Or maybe ATFE is feeling cocky because they figure the net election will get some anti-freedom Democrat in the White House. (And while you might argue that being anti-gun is not the same as being anti-freedom, I would counter that being anti-gun is pretty much the textbook definition of anti-freedom.)
Either way, if ATFE is feeling their oats perhaps they’ll dust off some of their old wish-list items as well…remember that proposed ban on steel core .223?
Because of these sorst of maybe-I-do-maybe-I-dont inconsistencies from the fedgoons, the smart survivalist never stops stockpiling ammo and gun stuff things that can be regulated out of availability on a whim.
I love that the BAT-FE say the only way to cut up a AR15 type receiver is with a flame no other way may be used. You can not oxy/fuel gas cut aluminium.
The warning order on having enough “other stuff” to “run your guns” went out in 1994. I got caught up in it as I was in the military overseas and came home to that stuff. Never again!
jp, hope you and yours are well. merry Christmas from rowdy Va. the new year will likely bring the clatter of armed struggle for the last vestiges of our freedom. glad I been stocking up all this time, lol. still, I have two more on the way, marked sic semper tyrannis. Merry Christmas govna! hope you can swim.
“….the smart survivalist never stops stockpiling things that can be regulated out of availability on a whim.”
Truer words ain’t never been spoke, brother.
ATF had better exercise a little bit of caution. There is a whole country full of people who have become very accustomed to shouldering their pistol braces. If they try to reclassify braced pistols as SBRs, they’re liable to find a whole lot of very non-compliant owners.
Is it not time to overthrow GCA’68 and FA’34 in the courts? No where in 2nd Amend do I read about barrel lengths or $200 fees or dealer licences or pre1899. Virginia seems set for a real court fight on what the 2nd Amendment really says and means,and close enough to DC to enforce it.
Don’t forget the push to classify .50 Cal uppers as a firearm, or several other changes that so far only affect manufacturers and Class 3 items.
I knew we the gun community were courting trouble when they came out with those sawed off shotgun thug weapons. atf will use that to roll up ar-braced pistols, ak’s and the like eventually. oh well, my govna is making me a felon twenty times over so what the hell. if you’re gonna be a pirate, be a good pirate eh?
Recently told by a ATF agent during a inspection, that all “Wrist braces” would soon be outlawed in 2020. Implied the AK pistols were the main reason. And modern inline black powder rifles would be requiring a background check to purchase. Must be pre 1898 design to be exempted.