The bad old Clinton days are back

Those who don’t follow gun issues may have missed the BATFE quietly redefined the meaning of a gun dealer, and their new policy has already claimed a victim.

Everyone knows there are gun DEALERS, who make their living from selling guns, and hobbyists who sell and buy guns for various non-commercial reasons: liquidating collections, updating, curiosity, whatever.  The controller folks hate that latter group – those are the folks who sell their personal property off the records and don’t have to register their every gun. Well, in the grand tradition of weaponizing  the government against the citizens it is supposed to serve,  BATFE issued a rule that redefines the term dealer based on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (the 2022 post-Uvalde legislation. )

Previously, an individual only needed a federal license to sell firearms when engaged in “a course of trade or business “involving “repetitive” buying and reselling of firearms with the “principal objective” of “livelihood and profit.” The BSCA removed the “livelihood” element so that profit-seeking alone would fulfill the required objective of the sales.

Sell a gun for more than you paid for it?  You need to be a dealer and background check the sale. (And nowadays, if you sell a gun you have owned for any length of time, you are likely to get a profit from it.)

The ATF’s sprawling background check rule is the most glaring and sinister example of the havoc the BSCA has unleashed. In typical fashion, the anti-gun Biden Administration has treated the law as a mandate to pursue the firearm prohibition movement’s longstanding aspiration to ban private gun sales. Channeling sales through the network of federally licensed dealers ensures that there is a paper trail of privately owned guns.  Buckeye Firearms

So they can go after you for not running a sale on a private gun and you need to be a dealer…but wait: the Biden administration also stepped up enforcement of even minor infractions and has shut hundreds of licensees down. So they want anyone dealing with guns to be a dealer yet are shutting dealers down. Sounds like they are trying to kill a market with regulatory oversight to me.  But, heck, it’s all just a paper snafu, right? MSN

Welcome back to the new Janet Reno days. Remember her? The woman who was in overall charge of sniper Lon Horiuchi, Ruby Ridge  (where the feds shot an unarmed  pregnant woman) and the Branch Davidian siege?

“Bryan Malinowski was asleep but rose to the sound of the door crashing and located a firearm. His wife believed the noise must have been intruders and she fully believes her husband thought the same. He loaded a magazine into a pistol and emerged from the master bedroom into a hallway leading indirectly to the front entryway. He reached a corner in the hall and looked around it to see several unidentifiable figures already several steps inside his home,” Malinowski’s family said in the statement. “We do not know who shot first but it appears that Bryan shot approximately three times at a decidedly low angle, probably at the feet of the intruders who were roughly 30 feet away.”

“At this stage there is no publicly available evidence showing whether agents knocked on the door or announced their presence, adequately identifying themselves,” the statement reads. “Bryan’s wife Maer only heard loud banging immediately followed by the crash of the front door being forced open.”

Ten vehicles, no lights, no IDs, oddly no body cameras (in blatant violation of ATF protocols), doing a no-knock raid in the wee hours for a “crime” :

Malinowski’s attorney correctly noted that if he had been convicted of his crime, Malinowski would likely have received probation or even pre-trial diversion, not a prison sentence, but such speculation is moot. Malinowski will never have the opportunity to answer ATF’s accusations.  Buckeye Firarms II

What are these meatheads THINKING! The man managed an airport (ironically, Clinton Airport) so you know he would have been unarmed at work. They could stop him on the way to or from work….they would maybe ID themselves and/or worked with uniformed LEOs.  But no, they chose the least logical and most dangerous solution and killed a man – for a crime administratively created by the government.

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