Giffords has now repeatedly admitted that NFA-registered suppressors are rarely used in the commission of crimes. So why do they still support total bans? I can’t buy a suppressor in California even though I’m willing to go through NFA registration.
I’ve asked both Emma Brown (Giffords Executive Director) and Chris Harris (their VP of Communications) to explain. So far, neither has responded.
The organization’s stated position is they don’t oppose the Second Amendment, they just want “reasonable” gun laws. And they wouldn’t lie about something like that, right? Well, given that they concede that NFA-registered suppressors are rarely used in crimes, it’s fundamentally unreasonable to continue to support state bans on them.
If they’re just trying to be reasonable — and who doesn’t want to be reasonable? — why don’t they get their favorite states like California to lift their suppressor bans, legalizing them for those of us who are willing to go through NFA registration? I’d love to buy one and would happily register it. And I would publicly thank Giffords for helping make that possible.
Imagine the PR coup that would be for them. Any time someone said Giffords’ real goal is to ban all guns, they could just rebut the claim by pointing to how they helped get bans on suppressors in states like California lifted.
And California politicians listen to Giffords and Everytown. They’ve passed laws those organizations have pushed for. The state also hires from them. The Director of the Office of Civilian Disarmament Gun Violence Prevention at the California Department of Justice is Ari Freilich, formerly a Giffords policy director.
NFA-registered suppressors are literally something they have admitted isn’t a problem, yet they still haven’t withdrawn their support for a ban. If Giffords won’t do this, that’s really all the proof you need that they want full-on bans despite what they may say.
Kostas Moros is Director of Legal Research and Education for the Second Amendment Foundation.
First, the NFA did not work for 100 years to prevent crime or do anything. It worked for 100 years to collect a tax, even though congress knew and even said it was an unconstitutional infringement on the 2A.
So if Giffords and Everytown are so supportive of the 2A like they claim then they should be celebrating the NFA injunction instead of trying to counter it.
Giffords and Everytown definition of ‘reasonable’ is infringing a constitutional right as much as they can.
They are scared they would be used to eliminate them…
Suppressors are the most perfect “gate way” to firearms for new folks who are fear full of the noise and recoil.
And our enemies know that.
I have made plans to use only suppressed 22 guns, in my beginers classes.
Ninth Circuit Tosses Gun Controllers’ Lawsuit Against ATF.
“The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court ruling in California and directed the judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the gun control group Giffords and the state of California against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The lawsuit challenged the ATF’s interpretation of its own ‘frame or receiver’ rule, complaining that the agency’s take on the rule wasn’t expansive enough. The ATF expanded the definition of a ‘frame’ and ‘receiver’ to include partially completed items that could be ‘readily converted’ to fully functional devices, but it also stated that ‘[a] billet or blank of an AR-15 variant receiver without critical interior areas having been indexed, machined, or formed that is not sold, distributed, or possessed with instructions, jigs, templates, equipment, or tools such that it may readily be completed is not a receiver.’
Giffords, along with the state of California, filed suit in the Golden State convinced that the exception (known as Example 4) wasn’t a part of the actual rule itself, and that unfinished frames and receivers sold by themselves should also be treated as finished firearms. The group called Example 4 an ‘arbitrary line [that] leaves open obvious and easily navigable loopholes that run counter to the GCA’s basic commands’ and declared the agency ‘entirely fail[ed] to consider an important aspect of the problem’ that the rule supposedly was meant to address.
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BREAKING: California & Giffords Just LOST at the Ninth Circuit.
“California and Giffords tried to force ATF to expand federal regulation of unfinished firearm receivers—and the Ninth Circuit just wiped out their lower-court victory. In this video, I break down the August 21 ruling, why the court found they lacked Article III standing, what happens to ATF’s ‘Example 4,’ and what this decision actually means for gun owners and the Second Amendment.”
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Left wingers self-manufactured a new ‘protected class’ consisting of imaginary genders and get upset if you don’t worship it: Pete Hegseth Used Slang for Transgender-Identifying Lefties, and Wokies Lost Their Marbles.
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‘At the Department of War, we do training, not trannies,’ Hegseth said, describing the priorities of the Trump administration versus the Biden administration. ‘It is a day and night difference. Training, lethality, accountability, discipline, readiness—the bedrock of what it means to be an American warrior—is the only focus of our department. Colorblind, gender-neutral, merit-based. That’s it.’
While his slang (‘trannies’) will probably bring a chuckle from most conservatives tired of treating transgender ideology seriously, the leftists who have spent years claiming that using the grammatically and biologically correct pronouns is akin to genocide were immediately furious.
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The ‘Animal Conspiracy’ and a mass-donkey’ing attack: A Donkey Attacks a Van, and Suddenly Tim Bedore Doesn’t Sound So Crazy.
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The word ‘temporary’ does not mean permanent, leave now! : ICE Arrested 300 Haitians After Temporary Protected Status Deadline in Ohio
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FFLs Pass ATF Inspections After Transferring Suppressors on Form 4473
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What AmmoLand News has determined, after speaking to multiple sources on condition of anonymity, is that at least four inspections in four states (East Coast, South, Midwest, and Southwest) have occurred at shops that have transferred suppressors on 4473s. The lawsuits did not trigger these inspections. They were scheduled inspections that just happened to occur after the transfers started. These were routine inspections conducted every few years.
All four shops have been transferring suppressors on 4473s, and all four shops passed with 0 violations. The industry operations inspectors (IOIs) did not consider these suppressor transfers a violation because of the injunction issued by Texas. All four shops were corporate members of the organizations in the lawsuits, or the suppressors were transferred to members of one of the organizations. According to AmmoLand sources, what some shops have done to keep separate books for NFA and GCA items is mark them ‘disposed’ in their NFA books and move them to the GCA books for transfers. This seems to have satisfied the IOIs in at least two states.
We cannot say for sure that every IOI in every state will follow the same procedure, but the fact that four separate FFLs in four separate states have passed inspections while transferring suppressors on a 4473 shows widespread acceptance. It is unknown whether guidance has been initiated from the top of the ATF or from the individual branch office.
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ht* tps://www.ammoland.com/2026/08/ffls-pass-atf-inspections-after-transferring-suppressors-on-form-4473/