The agency clearly wants to be seen as crusading for gun rights. And Willinger expects the DOJ to ally with gun rights groups in cases in which “it can most successfully characterize state or government actions as motivated by anti-gun animus.”
While the law may be in effect for now, under the U.S. Constitution and Delaware’s own, it remains wholly unconstitutional, unethical and fundamentally unworkable.
“If he would have had an FFL, they would have visited him every 365 days. The ATF wanted to send a message to people saying, “Don’t play in this area or we’ll mess you up.’”
That the NFA can no longer be justified as an exercise of Congress’s taxing power on suppressors, SBRs and SBSs and is thus unconstitutional should be the end of this matter.
Anti-gun extremists aren’t sending these demand letters with a goal of public safety but to seize control of the firearms industry through administrative action and lawfare.
For the progressive left, the age to buy a firearm should be higher (21) and the age to vote lower (16). Considering 18- to 20-year-olds, two questions must be asked to arrive at a moral and logical – if not constitutional – answer.
The answer isn’t more lawsuits, it’s more political firepower. That means mobilizing the grassroots to confront legislators directly, not waiting for a judge to do it for them.
Since the law changed, more than 17,000 New Yorkers have been approved for permits, and over 8,000 additional applications are pending as of October 1.
The public now knows that ATF’s RPG training device can fire live rifle rounds without an RPG and that the device itself—and an RPG—are legal for civilian sales. The kit even came with an ATF letter stating it was “not a destructive device.
“[Ruger knows] and criminals know that their RXM pistol can be easily converted to an illegal, lethal fully automatic weapon. They can modify their product to be safer, or they can continue to profit from crime and violence and answer to a lawsuit.”
