Yep, aware of the Kurds’ perfidy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t solve the problem. Once you surrender them, they’re gone.
May 4, 2026 at 9:15 am
ExNuke
Repressive Democrats want to take OUR guns for the kind of Safety Iranians enjoy. The new BATFE head is starting out making the right kind of noises, we’ll have to see how it goes.
You have this backwards. All the restrictions on the ATF were in Trump’s OBBB but were cut at the last second. He knows Congress will act against him, so he asked for a budget increase. Congress but ATF budget, cut staff, and put a hold on a dozen rules. Trump played them.
So in this case, “dry fire” and “empty chamber” is a scare tactic and obfuscation that works so spectacularly for him, tell the twins about his methods so they don’t swallow the deception like the lefties do…
Can the 4D chess hopium. Trump unilaterally banned bumpstocks under no significant pressure from anybody to do that. Over half a million people had to destroy or surrender their expensive property as contraband for NO recompense. It took five and a half years for the ban to be declared unconstitutional and for these people finally to be vindicated… but fewer than a dozen (the ones literally named as complainants in the lawsuit) ever got their property back. $130 million of citizen wealth vaporized at nothing more Trump’s whim.
Neither Trump’s mind nor his heart really have any understanding of the gun rights issue. And sadder than that, I suspect he thinks he does.
May 6, 2026 at 9:22 pm
JTC
Worse, some strong 2A defenders think THEY understand TRUMP’S understanding of the issue, yet he proves them wrong time and again.
Can the automatic acceptance of surface losses and look to ultimate eventual WIN in damn near every case and every issue.
They want ATF gone. Understandable but not necessarily in our best interests. Past abuse doesn’t foretell future. One issue I might agree with them on is digitalization of records. Of course something similar happened when FBI set up the background check system which called for deletion after approval. Is that being followed religiously? We don’t know, and everything going online is scary in the same way that everything about you personally is subject to being saved and potentially retrieved for nefarious purposes forever. But we can’t put that tiger back in the cage.
Here’s the one issue that I have harped on for many years: so-called “universal background checks”, really just a method of eliminating the codified exemption in the rules forever and maybe the most important right to guns and privacy there is. The old ATF was full-on implementing elimination of that right, so if the new one continues that effort or if it eliminates that effort as it should, we will know which direction they are heading and which direction we have to go to deal with it. Full elimination of the agency sounds good but it ain’t happening and even if it did a subsequent leftist regime and reboot it almost certain worse and more restricting than it ever was, and years of fighting that usurpation of the Constitution gives them all the time they need to do serious damage and setup for future criminalization and confiscation. Lord help us…and them…if they go down that road.
“FBI set up the background check system which called for deletion after approval. Is that being followed religiously? We don’t know”
To the contrary, we DO know that it is NOT being followed, and NEVER will be followed. FBI was sued immediately once this nonfeasance became public. Janet Reno argued that keeping backup copies of data on federal systems was consistent with IT “best practices.” The judge agreed with her. The issue is now dead, and we lost it.
May 6, 2026 at 9:04 pm
JTC
Please point to the loss and the subsequent public policy of maintaining approvals in perpetuity?
May 6, 2026 at 9:13 pm
JTC
“The policy requiring the FBI to delete approved firearm purchase records within 24 hours of receiving a “proceed” response remains in effect as of early 2026.This policy, enacted through federal appropriations legislation (often associated with the “Tiahrt Amendment”), mandates the destruction of personally identifiable information for approved buyers to prevent the creation of a national firearm registry (database).”
Again, do we trust that policy? Of course not.
May 4, 2026 at 12:58 pm
JTC
Example: remember the bump stock bs? Big meeting and DT says hell yeah get rid of these things, but…nada. Another wildly successful misdirection.
“Nada??” Huh? Did you MISS the actual five year BAN and confiscation??
“The Trump administration (via the DOJ/ATF) issued the final rule classifying bump stocks as machine guns on December 18, 2018. It took effect 90 days later (around March 2019).
“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Garland v. Cargill on June 14, 2024, that the ATF exceeded its authority. The Court held that bump stocks do not meet the statutory definition of a “machinegun” under the National Firearms Act (they do not fire “automatically” by a “single function of the trigger”).”
Yes nada…Banned from *sale* for a while, ultimately increasing demand and value, junk though they may be, much like during the big AWB. And what “confiscation”? Did you give them yours? Of course not. Nobody did. Exactly the point of the misdirection; nothing is as it seems with DJT. Sort of a test case if they should ever be so stupid as coming to your door for “the big one”.
May 4, 2026 at 4:14 pm
JTC
OT again, browsing the Old Dead Blog and ran across this…largely about their plans for our gun rights, but we have mostly prevailed, amazing how much has stayed the same…if you can get past the retch response, note that I pretty much kept to the stated plan.
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Yeah, those Iranians are going to rise up in armed rebellion.
Oh… wait.
“I like take the guns first. Do due-process later.”
Paging vintage Civics teacher with a clue bat.
We sent small arms.
The Kurds kept them for themselves.
Yep, aware of the Kurds’ perfidy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t solve the problem. Once you surrender them, they’re gone.
Repressive Democrats want to take OUR guns for the kind of Safety Iranians enjoy. The new BATFE head is starting out making the right kind of noises, we’ll have to see how it goes.
“A rifle behind every blade of grass- – – – – – -”
Yamamoto
You have this backwards. All the restrictions on the ATF were in Trump’s OBBB but were cut at the last second. He knows Congress will act against him, so he asked for a budget increase. Congress but ATF budget, cut staff, and put a hold on a dozen rules. Trump played them.
SOP for DJT…play them, play us if we’re not paying attention, and then drop the hammer on the BG’s in the room.
So in this case, “dry fire” and “empty chamber” is a scare tactic and obfuscation that works so spectacularly for him, tell the twins about his methods so they don’t swallow the deception like the lefties do…
Can the 4D chess hopium. Trump unilaterally banned bumpstocks under no significant pressure from anybody to do that. Over half a million people had to destroy or surrender their expensive property as contraband for NO recompense. It took five and a half years for the ban to be declared unconstitutional and for these people finally to be vindicated… but fewer than a dozen (the ones literally named as complainants in the lawsuit) ever got their property back. $130 million of citizen wealth vaporized at nothing more Trump’s whim.
Neither Trump’s mind nor his heart really have any understanding of the gun rights issue. And sadder than that, I suspect he thinks he does.
Worse, some strong 2A defenders think THEY understand TRUMP’S understanding of the issue, yet he proves them wrong time and again.
Can the automatic acceptance of surface losses and look to ultimate eventual WIN in damn near every case and every issue.
https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/op-ed/hold-on-there-dont-cheer-those-proposed-atf-reforms-quite-so-fast/
They want ATF gone. Understandable but not necessarily in our best interests. Past abuse doesn’t foretell future. One issue I might agree with them on is digitalization of records. Of course something similar happened when FBI set up the background check system which called for deletion after approval. Is that being followed religiously? We don’t know, and everything going online is scary in the same way that everything about you personally is subject to being saved and potentially retrieved for nefarious purposes forever. But we can’t put that tiger back in the cage.
Here’s the one issue that I have harped on for many years: so-called “universal background checks”, really just a method of eliminating the codified exemption in the rules forever and maybe the most important right to guns and privacy there is. The old ATF was full-on implementing elimination of that right, so if the new one continues that effort or if it eliminates that effort as it should, we will know which direction they are heading and which direction we have to go to deal with it. Full elimination of the agency sounds good but it ain’t happening and even if it did a subsequent leftist regime and reboot it almost certain worse and more restricting than it ever was, and years of fighting that usurpation of the Constitution gives them all the time they need to do serious damage and setup for future criminalization and confiscation. Lord help us…and them…if they go down that road.
“FBI set up the background check system which called for deletion after approval. Is that being followed religiously? We don’t know”
To the contrary, we DO know that it is NOT being followed, and NEVER will be followed. FBI was sued immediately once this nonfeasance became public. Janet Reno argued that keeping backup copies of data on federal systems was consistent with IT “best practices.” The judge agreed with her. The issue is now dead, and we lost it.
Please point to the loss and the subsequent public policy of maintaining approvals in perpetuity?
“The policy requiring the FBI to delete approved firearm purchase records within 24 hours of receiving a “proceed” response remains in effect as of early 2026.This policy, enacted through federal appropriations legislation (often associated with the “Tiahrt Amendment”), mandates the destruction of personally identifiable information for approved buyers to prevent the creation of a national firearm registry (database).”
Again, do we trust that policy? Of course not.
Example: remember the bump stock bs? Big meeting and DT says hell yeah get rid of these things, but…nada. Another wildly successful misdirection.
“Nada??” Huh? Did you MISS the actual five year BAN and confiscation??
“The Trump administration (via the DOJ/ATF) issued the final rule classifying bump stocks as machine guns on December 18, 2018. It took effect 90 days later (around March 2019).
“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Garland v. Cargill on June 14, 2024, that the ATF exceeded its authority. The Court held that bump stocks do not meet the statutory definition of a “machinegun” under the National Firearms Act (they do not fire “automatically” by a “single function of the trigger”).”
Yes nada…Banned from *sale* for a while, ultimately increasing demand and value, junk though they may be, much like during the big AWB. And what “confiscation”? Did you give them yours? Of course not. Nobody did. Exactly the point of the misdirection; nothing is as it seems with DJT. Sort of a test case if they should ever be so stupid as coming to your door for “the big one”.
OT again, browsing the Old Dead Blog and ran across this…largely about their plans for our gun rights, but we have mostly prevailed, amazing how much has stayed the same…if you can get past the retch response, note that I pretty much kept to the stated plan.
https://poetnthepawnbroker.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-have-fun-and-profit-from-obama.html