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Biden Pistol Brace Ban Blocked! But Are You Covered? Read to Find Out! by S.H. BLANNELBERR

Pistol Brace Rule from the ATF.
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Over the past week, there’s been a rapid succession of legal decisions regarding the Biden administration’s ban on pistol braces.

In Washington D.C., Judge Drew B. Tipton took center stage, hitting pause on the new rule. Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), and the State of Texas were behind this legal push.

This ruling not only covers all GOA members but also extends to anyone working directly for Texas and its agencies.

Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior VP, dubbed this move an “assault” by Biden on gun owners, while GOF’s Sam Paredes hailed their partial halt of the rule as a message to anyone infringing on the Second Amendment.

“While Congress was slow to act on this wide-reaching rule, GOF stepped in to defend the millions of Americans facing legal jeopardy,” said Paredes in a press release obtained by GunsAmerica. “We are proud to have helped partially halt this rule, and hope it sends a message to anti-gunners hellbent on continuing the assault on the Second Amendment.”

 

Are You Covered?

Lawsuit Judge/Court Organization Who is Covered
GOA, GOF vs. ATF Drew B. Tipton Gun Owners of America (GOA) GOA members, Texas state employees
SAF vs. ATF Jane J. Boyle Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) SAF members
Mock v. Garland 5th Circuit Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) FPC members, Maxim Defense’s customers, individual plaintiffs’ resident family members

 

Meanwhile, over in Bellevue, WA, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) was busy challenging Biden’s Arm Brace Rule as well.

Along with Rainier Arms, LLC and two private citizens, they succeeded in clarifying a preliminary injunction by Judge Jane J. Boyle. To their relief, the injunction indeed covers SAF members.

“SAF has received numerous inquiries from individuals as to whether the injunction covered our members,” said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut.

“We are pleased to see that Judge Boyle agrees with our interpretation and that our members are indeed protected under this injunction,” he added.

But the action doesn’t stop there. Down in New Orleans, the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) secured a win with the 5th Circuit Court in the Mock v. Garland case last week. The court confirmed that the injunction covers FPC’s members, Maxim Defense’s customers, and the plaintiffs’ resident family members.

 

Not Covered? Here’s What ATF Wants You To Do To Avoid Becoming A felon

Gun owners who are not covered by one of the injunctions could face felony prosecution. Possession of a short-barreled rifle without an appropriate tax stamp is prohibited under federal law.

Violation of these provisions can result in imprisonment for up to 10 years and/or a fine of up to $250,000 for individuals, or $500,000 for organizations, per the ATF.

In a social media post this month, the ATF presented comprehensive compliance options if the firearm with the stabilizing brace is classified as a short-barreled rifle under the Gun Control Act (GCA):

  1. Remove the short barrel and attach a 16-inch or longer rifled barrel to the firearm.
  2. Permanently remove and dispose of, or alter, the “stabilizing brace” so that it cannot be reattached.
  3. Turn the firearm into your local ATF office.
  4. Destroy the firearm.
  5. Register the firearm tax-free by May 31, 2023.

Important note: Simply removing the brace from the firearm is not sufficient, as GunsAmerica previously reported.

Conclusion

It’s been a big week for pro-gun organizations standing tall against an overreaching and unjust ban.

As they continue their battle, your support can make a difference. Consider joining or donating to SAF, GOA, and FPC to help safeguard gun rights. And stay tuned for updates, as the fight will no doubt rage on.

 

 

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Ex-Marine Daniel Penny is the spitting image of “The Dying Gaul,” one of the most famous statues from Hellenistic Antiquity. The Capitoline Museum has a Third Century B.C. marble copy found in the early 17th Century of a Fourth Century B.C. bronze original by Epigonus.
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Mexican Cartels Now Have Black Market Shoulder Fired Anti Tank Rockets Thanks To Biden Dumping Them Into Ukraine Posted on May 31, 2023 by bustednuckles

A militant wearing the insignia of Mexico’s notorious Gulf Cartel (Cartel Del Golfo, CDG) was filmed in the state of Tamaulipas carrying a US-made anti-tank missile launcher. Milenio TV identified the weapon as a Javelin, thousands of which were sent to Ukraine by the Pentagon.

Footage filmed in Matamoros on Monday and aired on Tuesday evening by the news channel Milenio TV showed a man with CDG patches armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and a missile they said was the Raytheon-made FGM-148.

Over 10,000 Javelins from Pentagon stockpiles have been sent to Ukraine since last February, to the point where the US military has begun to run out of the missiles itself.

Milenio presenter Azucena Uresti noted on Twitter that the estimated value of a Javelin launcher on the black market was anywhere from $20,000 to $60,000, while the average cost of a missile was about $30,000.

 

Keen-eyed military experts believe the weapon in the Milenio footage may actually be the AT-4, a Swedish-made disposable anti-tank launcher, which is also in use by the US military and likewise supplied to Ukraine by the thousands. 

Russia has repeatedly warned the US and its allies not to “stuff” Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, both because this risked a direct confrontation and since nonexistent controls would result in the weapons ending up in the criminal underworld.

A RT investigation in July 2022 found a variety of Western-supplied weapons, including anti-tank rockets, for sale on the “dark web.” Several months later, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that $1 billion a month worth of Western weapons was ending up in the hands of “terrorists, extremists and criminal groups in the Middle East, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.”

Kiev has denounced this as “propaganda” and insisted all were accounted for.

Sure, I totally believe that outright bald faced lie from some Ukrainian media flunky.

Let us not forget that Biden left $85 BILLON dollars worth of American military equipment in Afghanistan for the Taliban to sell off or use as they saw fit also.

I would venture to guess that there is Black Market U.S. Military war fighting equipment all over the entire globe at this point.

The immediate implications of the Mexican drug cartels having a bunch of it ought to cause some ass puckering by the local police and border patrol agents along the wide open Southern border of this country.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see some of this stuff turn up further inland either.

The Cartels have running operations from Mexico to Canada already as it is, you just don’t hear about them from the MSM

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A Russian Tank Park (My old S-3 & 4 would shit a brick if this was our stuff!)

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Dad wants safe recalled after 6-year-old son unlocks it, takes gun to school By Sarah Fili, KETV,

SHENANDOAH, Iowa — An Iowa family wants a safe taken off the market after their 6-year-old opened it and took a gun to school, KETV reported.

As gun owners with a little boy in the house, the Shenandoah, Iowa family bought a safe to make sure their gun was secure. Only a registered fingerprint can unlock it. At least that’s what the family thought.

“We put those safeguards in place. We did our best. We thought we were doing what we needed to do to protect our family and community. And unfortunately, it just didn’t happen in this scenario,” said the 6-year-old’s father.

In early March, the man’s 6-year-old son was on the school playground at recess when teachers found a gun in his backpack.

“They confiscated a gun from a student and they needed officers out to the school,” said Shenandoah Police Chief Josh Gray.

Gray said he contacted the boy’s parents, who insisted the gun had been in a locked safe.

“He just saw the safe and then he put his thumbprint on it and it opened right up for the kid,” Gray said, confirming that the safe, sold by a Chinese company named “BBRKIN,” unlocked for the 6-year-old.

Police went to the home to check the safe.

“The father was more than willing to work with us, show us anything we wanted to examine,” Gray said, adding that an officer examined the safe. “He went to go put his thumbprint on the safe, and right away, as soon as my officer did that, the safe opened right up for him, which it’s supposed to be just for that owner and his thumbprint.”

In fact, the family quickly discovered any fingerprint, or even toe print, unlocked the BBRKIN gun safe.

KETV NewsWatch 7 Investigates agreed to disguise the father’s identity to protect his 6-year-old son.

“We still hold a lot of like guilt for it. And we feel personally responsible but we’ve taken every action that we possibly can in my own power,” the father said.

He said he bought the BBRKIN biometric safe box on amazon.com in November for $229.

The company notes that in default mode, any fingerprint can open the safe.

But the father told KETV he set it up according to the manual, including the fingerprint reader that unlocks it, and it remained locked when his wife tried to open it.

Reviews posted on Amazon.com echoed the Shenandoah man’s concerns. One user said the safe opened with “all 10 of my fingers and toes.”

“They know it’s an issue. I mean, based on the reviews you can go on for, it’s a known issue, and they’ve already resolved some of those by sending you a new safe,” the father said.

KETV NewsWatch 7’s Sarah Fili has been working to contact BBRKIN about the Shenandoah man’s ordeal.

The company has not replied to any of the requests for comment.

Amazon said it had no comment for this story.

But the man provided us with copies of emails he said he exchanged with the Chinese company.

In one email dated March 13, BBRKIN said “Two months ago we updated the chip program that the safe can only open it until users have registered fingerprints successfully. Users cannot open it when it is in default mode/received the safe.”

That update was a month after the man bought the safe.

“Why wasn’t there a recall when you decided to put new chips in? Why didn’t you recall that? Like, why wasn’t anybody that purchased that safe prior notified that, hey, this is a potential risk?” the father questioned.

KETV wanted to see if BBRKIN’s upgrade changed anything.

So, KETV NewsWatch 7 Investigates bought the same safe in late March.

We set it up according to the directions, including the fingerprint reader, to read only reporter Sarah Fili’s fingerprint. After programming our photographer tried the fingerprint reader, with no success. Over the course of a day, almost a dozen different KETV employees tried their fingerprints.

Not one unlocked the safe, except Fili’s.

Days, even a week later, it still only opened for the one registered fingerprint. Fili let the Shenandoah father know the upgraded safe seems to work. He’s thankful, but asked about all the other safes with old chips that could still fail.

“Get this product removed. So this can’t happen to somebody else. Because in talking with an attorney, they can’t do anything about it unless somebody was injured,” the father said.

In the case of the gun on the Shenandoah school playground, no one was hurt.

The Page County Attorney declined to press any charges

But, under Shenandoah school district policy, the 6-year-old was expelled from kindergarten, leaving his father still asking questions about the maker of that gun safe.

“This is about accountability. Everybody doesn’t have a problem holding us accountable for it. I think they should be held accountable as well,” the father said.

KETV NewsWatch 7 asked the Consumer Product Safety Commission if it was aware of issues with the safe.

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The agency said it can’t comment on anything it “may or may not” be investigating, but the father said he has submitted a complaint there and provided the information.

Again, KETV has reached out repeatedly to BBRKIN, but they have not replied to our questions about the safe or the upgrade.

Three weeks after getting our safe, it still unlocks only for Fili.

If you have a gun safe, take the time to know who can actually unlock it.

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And the Government wonders on why they are so hated by the People

Amish Farmer Targeted by Govt for Operating Outside Reach of USDA Regulations

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Rebel News, highlights the plight of an Amish farmer who operates a private market club for his products.  Because his crops, dairy and beef are not sold to the ‘general public,’ and only to those who are members of the private food club, Amos Miller contends he should not be subject to USDA regulations.

Miller’s organic farm operates on century old farming practices.  His farm uses no electricity, no tractors, no diesel, no gasoline, and he produces exceptional all natural yields which people are willing to pay top dollar to purchase.

Additionally, because Mr. Miller doesn’t use chemical fertilizer or fuel, his farm has not been impacted by the increased costs that have hit industrial farms.  He and his customers are completely unaffected by outside influence.

However, a federal judge ruled that despite his closed members-only market, he must have USDA inspectors for his beef and cattle slaughter processes.  Miller does not want to use the regulated and required pharmaceutical antibiotics, and other regulatory processes required by the USDA.  He now faces jail time and a $300,000 fine. [Rebel News Article]

While CTH is completely on the side of the Miller farm, it’s not fair to share this story without providing the alternative perspective from the side of the regulatory agencies.

 

(Via Lancaster Online) – […]  “The United States submits that Mr. Miller’s continuing recalcitrance and flouting of the court’s orders requires a robust, more-coercive civil contempt sanction than previously imposed,” government attorneys wrote in its request filed in late July. “Specifically … the court should order him to be incarcerated until he has paid these sums that are long overdue.”

U.S. District Judge Edward G. Smith scheduled a hearing for Sept. 26 at the federal courthouse in Easton for Miller to show why he should not be jailed.

And the government wants Miller’s wife, Rebecca Miller, added as a defendant in the case because she is a co-owner of Miller’s Organic Farm. That will also be addressed at the hearing.

Miller — who has an attorney, but has been filing paperwork on his own — filed a response on Aug. 5 suggesting Smith and the government are “working in concert” in supposedly violating his rights. The filing seeks a stay of the proceedings and indicates Miller plans to appeal issues in which he contends the judge is wrong.

[…] Miller first came to the attention of federal authorities in 2016, when the Food and Drug Administration said it identified Listeria in samples of Miller’s raw milk; the agency found the Listeria to be genetically similar to the bacteria found in two people who developed listeriosis — one of whom died — after consuming raw milk.. (read more)

It’s an interesting issue, specifically interesting because the members of the private food club are in a hold-harmless relationship with the Miller farm.

What do you think?

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Armed robbery suspect shoots himself in the hand in Santa Monica by: Josh DuBose

Two juvenile males were arrested for the armed robbery of a delivery driver in Santa Monica on Monday and were only apprehended after one of the suspects shot himself in the hand, authorities announced.

Calls about the robbery, near the intersection of 3rd Street and Idaho Avenue, came in at around 2 p.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they learned that the delivery driver had been threatened by the two suspects, one of whom pointed a firearm at the victim, according to a news release from SMPD.

While police were investigating the robbery, a call of shots fired in the 800 block of 2nd Street came in. Officers quickly learned that one of the suspects from the robbery had accidentally discharged the firearm and shot himself in the hand while inside a residence.

Police were able to locate both juveniles and arrest them.

The uninjured suspect was booked at SMPD and taken to juvenile hall. The injured juvenile was treated for his wound at the hospital, released a day later and was also taken to juvenile hall. Both suspects have been charged with robbery.

Detectives say the continued investigation of the incident has tied the two youths to “multiple additional crimes that occurred in the area over the past few months, including residential burglaries, auto theft and a stabbing.” Additional charges against the two are pending.