June 15, 2024, 09:00 PM | #476 |
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Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you.
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June 16, 2024, 09:40 AM | #477 |
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I don’t like the basis of that ruling. It seems based on lack of due process about changing the rule, not the fundamental infringement of rights or changing the meaning of laws with letters and rules.
The way I see it, not a legal opinion, is that the government has a law about SBR’s that was enforced once way. Then a pistol brace manufacturer came along and requested a judgement on whether their product was legal or not. Once interpreted as legal, some politician determined this was not to their liking. They surveyed the political landscape and determined a majority were accepting of this acceptance of braces. Said politicians then tried to circumvent due process by writing a rule. Opposition was high, so they rewrote it. Opposition was still high, so they just issued it. The whole problem starts at not trying to just pass a law, since it would fail. If you cannot pass a law, that is because legislators don’t want it presumably because voters don’t want it! How hard is that? I hope I’m seeing this wrong. |
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What we're seeing in cases like this one, Cargill v. Garland, and West Virginia v. EPA is that the courts, including SCOTUS, are beginning to say that, in spite of Congress essentially ceding some of their power to the executive branch to avoid having to have "difficult" votes, the alphabet soup agencies do not have unlimited power to change law as they see fit despite the best efforts of spineless legislators. |
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June 17, 2024, 04:06 PM | #481 |
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This whole debacle caused me to convert my pistols into carbines with some form of the 16” barrel
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I don't have any AR pistols or anything with a "brace" on it, but I have a long familiarity with the fickleness of ATF regulation changes.
Long ago I had a Broomhandle Mauser. For many years the ATF said if it had a stock (or a stock with it that would attach) it was an NFA item. Then, one day, a bit of joy, the ATF said it was a Curio & Relic and not an NFA item. So, I got a stock. Really nice, almost certainly a reproduction, no marking of any kind, just the classic wooden stock/holster. THen a few years later, the ATF said that in order to qualify as a Curio & Relic (and thereby be exempt from NFA status) the stock had to be "original period manufacture". Now, I think the stock I got was probably made in the 50s. It MIGHT have been made in the 20s, like my pistol but there was no way to prove that. SO, rather than risk it being a legal issue, I sold the stock. A decade or so later, I sold the pistol. Point here is, like they have recently done with the pistol brace, the ATF said it was legal and NOT an NFA item, until they changed their minds some years later, and said it was an NFA item, and therefore not legal without the proper registration and taxes. I don't know any of the people, so I don't hate them as individuals, but I sure hate the way their agency operates.
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