Whatever the statists touch, turns to shit: The ATF Has Been Enforcing a Rule That Does Not Exist

While Beto fantasizes about confiscating AR-15s, a court finds a shocking loophole in the way they’re regulated.
Anyone else sick to death of watching the Democrats debate each other already? Tuesday saw them rehash numerous conversations they’ve already had, and there are still eight excruciating nights of such television for us to endure.

Whatever the statists touch, turns to shit: The ATF Has Been Enforcing a Rule That Does Not Exist Ar15s-gun-show

Whatever the statists touch, turns to shit: The ATF Has Been Enforcing a Rule That Does Not Exist Ar15s-gun-show

Beto O’Rourke, for instance, once again loudly and obnoxiously announced his intention to confiscate semiautomatic “assault weapons” from their lawful owners. He said he “believes” that compliance will be forthcoming.
If I really need to engage with this nonsense, I’ll go ahead and note that the American people don’t support gun confiscation — even in polls where they endorse banning sales of new assault weapons; that compliance with gun bans is low pretty much everywhere; that his policy would violate the Second Amendment; and that there’s little solid evidence that blanket gun bans are effective in reducing crime. We’re not going to pass this law, we wouldn’t comply with it if we did, and the courts might not allow it anyway.
But with that out of the way, let’s address what should be an elephant in the room: While Beto was rambling on about his bizarre fantasies in which docile AR-15 owners happily identify themselves to the government and dutifully surrender their arms, our actual legal regime for regulating these guns came under serious threat from a case out of California — because the folks who are supposed to enforce the gun laws have royally messed up for decades.
To understand what’s going on here, you need a little bit of background. There are lots of rules about making and selling guns in this country: If you sell guns regularly as a business, you need to get a license and conduct background checks on your buyers; each gun a manufacturer creates for sale needs a serial number; etc. However, it’s generally legal to sell firearm parts without following those rules.
The exception is the “receiver.” Federal law treats this part — the frame that holds the gun’s guts, basically — the same way it treats an entire firearm. It needs to have a serial number and so on even when it’s sold by itself, preventing people from evading the law by simply buying and selling firearms piece by piece.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/gun-regulation-ar-15-atf-enforcing-rule-that-does-not-exist/

Turns To Shit

Whatever the statists touch, turns to shit: The ATF Has Been Enforcing a Rule That Does Not Exist

Whatever the statists touch, turns to shit: The ATF Has Been Enforcing a Rule That Does Not Exist

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