The Kinder, Gentler ATF,....Again

The acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, recently announced that there will be multiple reforms at the ATF that will "eliminate all infringements on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.”  They've even announced changes in 34 areas that will (allegedly) 'unburden' the industry and peaceable gun owners. Royce dedicates the entire episode to showing why that's a colossal steaming crock of bull[fertilizer].

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Let's dive right on in. And the primary subject of this entire podcast is going to be the,
which I like to call it, the ATF's Confession of Wrongdoing.
Yes, the ATF's Confession of Wrongdoing. And you've heard about these 34 points that they're...
reparations to themselves and their character over it and how they're going to be the kinder,
gentler ATF. Once again, of course, yes. And they are making these new final rules to align with
President Trump's orders, especially in regards to the Second Amendment. Plus,
they're finally aligning themselves with existing laws that have been in place already that they
have chosen conveniently to ignore. until they've been held to account for it.
Then they go, oh, okay, sorry. We'll do better next time. Yeah. Now,
if you read the hand wringing and the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth by the civilian
disarmament cartels, they are not happy that the ATF is apparently,
and yes, it's only appearances, being brought to heel. And that some regulatory things that they've
been doing are going to change. Now, I assure you, this is not the bone that us dogs think is being
thrown to us. And I want you to listen on purpose as we go through. I'm not going to go through
each and every 34 point. I've just pulled out the ones that I think are applicable to we individual
gun owners and the dealers. that we frequent where we buy our firearms,
because a lot of this stuff is the regulatory portion of that. So I'm going to start with an
article by CNN, yes, written by Holmes LeBrand and Hannah Rabinowitz,
and the title is, Justice Department Seeks to Roll Back Gun Control Measures Days After Trump
Assassination Attempt. Now, of course, you... can tell by the title already,
that this is not designed to shine favorably upon the Trump administration or the gun industry or
gun owners in the least. So just keep that in mind as we read the article. And here it is.
Days after a gunman charged security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in what
investigators say was an attempt to kill President Donald Trump with legally owned firearms,
His Justice Department is further rolling back gun control measures. So right off the bat,
they're showing their colors. And by the way, just a quick sidebar. President Trump,
please form a security team there. And matter of fact,
just if that's the best. that the Secret Service has to offer, sir, remove them from your detail,
from your personal protective detail, and hire a team of some serious pipe hitters,
some guys that have seen combat, some guys that actually know how to run security operations for a
VIP. Watching that man charge through security,
catching them completely unawares. And seeing how they responded,
and for all intents and purposes, it looked like the agent that was shot was shot by friendly fire.
That's just how I'm seeing it right now. That's not definitive, but it sure does look that way. Mr.
President, you need a better detail. Get some Delta guys, get some DevGuru guys,
and put together a very serious team. All right, that's all I'm going to say on that right now.
Hmm, I'm not sure I should say this next part. Well, I'm going to go ahead and say... because
everybody needs to be concerned about it what if that had been a hit team what if that had been a
team of gunmen how do you think that security force there the secret service would have handled
that yeah it shudders me it makes me shudder i should say to think about that so back to the
article though we're talking about the changes made to uh as this article put it Rolling back gun
control measures. I like the fact that they actually called it what it is, gun control,
not gun safety laws. But Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday at a press conference,
he said, we're repealing ATF rules that went beyond what the law allows.
Well, that's not going to stop them, Mr. Blanche. I got news for you. He said, we are cutting
unnecessary red tape and we're replacing confusion with clear, straightforward language so that
everyday Americans don't need a law degree just to understand their rights.
Okay, how many of y'all just got hit right there with that joke like, what? Just think about this.
Did you, I mean, did you catch that? So that everyday Americans...
need a law degree just to understand their rights. Okay, since when do we citizens need
clarification from the ATF just to understand our rights?
We already understand our rights perfectly, and that's why we have a deep-seated loathing and
abhorrence for the ATF. We don't need the ATF to explain to us what our rights are.
So this scares me about Mr. Blanche being the acting attorney general.
It really does. It tells me he doesn't have a very good grasp on the actual Second Amendment,
what its purpose is and was, and what it's designed to do.
So, what else was it there? He said,
we're cutting unnecessary red tape and we're replacing confusion. Okay,
they're admitting that what they had was very confusing with clear, straightforward language.
Well, I got news for you, sir. Gun control in and of itself is absolute confusion, especially going
from one state to the next and having to relearn each state's list of all their gun control laws.
as we venture forth through each state, because it's a patchwork of gun control.
It is nothing but confusion. The Second Amendment doesn't produce that kind of confusion.
Bureaucrats do, and their red tape does. So, the administration is proposing 34 new rules,
marking the largest amount the BATFE has issued in the last 15 years combined,
Blanche said, adding that Quote, nothing we are doing today weakens law enforcement.
Yeah, I caught that too. In other words, don't worry. The government will still maintain absolute
iron booted control over the firearms industry. So don't worry about that part.
The government is not allowed constitutionally to have any regulatory oversight over the firearms
industry. The ATF is not a constitutional entity either.
According to Blanche and the newly confirmed ATF director Robert Cicada,
the new rules will help gun sellers more easily abide by the law.
Oh, thank you. You're helping us comply with laws that are not constitutional.
Isn't that nice of you? Yeah, and they're admitting they've made things very difficult for dealers.
So we'll help gun sellers more easily abide by the law, including by adopting a more narrow
definition of who must be a licensed seller. Well, that's in conjunction with them having made
things very confusing for who and what is a dealer and how, and they made it purposely ambiguous
and unclear and confusing so they could always make it work in their prosecutorial favor.
That's why. Cicada, and I covered him before when he was being proposed. He's not our friend.
He's not a friend of gun owners. He's not a friend of the Second Amendment. Cicada,
who was confirmed by the Senate Wednesday, also said the ATF would formally rescind a 2023 rule
that restricted pistol braces. We'll touch that more in just a minute. That rule was struck down in
federal court. A pistol brace, commonly used as an attachment for certain pistols,
allows the user to hold the firearm against their shoulder while firing, similar to how long guns
like shotguns and rifles are fired. Okay, quick sidebar. You don't need any kind of a pistol brace
on a short-barreled AR pistol to shoot it from the shoulder.
I can use the buffer tube. and put that against my shoulder if I want to, or bring it up into a
tactical firing position without a stock at all, all right? So I don't need to worry about this.
Actually, this has been a, what should I say? This has been a big nothing burger anyway.
They don't like losing control, and that's why they have flip-flopped back and forth on this
pistol brace crap in the first place. The Biden administration argued that the pistol brace
converted the pistol into a short-barreled rifle, which can be more heavily regulated in the U.S.
And there's the purpose of them saying that. We lose power,
regulatory power, over the industry.
People would start using these things actually like a short-barreled rifle. And then we don't get
the money for the tax stamp. Of course, those don't cost anything anymore, but we don't get to
register them because that's the main emphasis, is the registration portion of getting that tax
stamp. Gun industry leaders stood behind Blanche as he spoke. The administration has long been
looking for ways to review current gun control laws. I'll tell you how you view them.
under the microscope of the Second Amendment. How about that? Weeks after entering his second term,
Trump signed an executive order referring the Justice Department to review any regulations or,
quote, actions by the Biden administration regarding firearms and to eliminate all infringements on
American Second Amendment rights. What? What?
Did he just say that? To eliminate? All infringements on Americans' Second Amendment rights?
Do you really want to do that, sir? I really want you to do that. I want you to absolutely do that,
and I want you to do it in scorched-earth fashion. This needs to be done with.
You want to do that, sir? You declare the supremacy of the Second Amendment over all other laws.
and you declare that they are all null and void. That's how you do that. You don't even need a
congressional approval on this, as far as I'm concerned. We, the people, back you up on this.
The NFA and the GCA need to go, and all the 20,000...
plus gun laws at every conglomerative from all other states that are predicated on those two laws,
they need to be struck down and null and void. The government does not have any constitutional
authority to oversee the arms industry in the least. Now,
they have the right to regulate its commerce. Yes, that is the buying and selling portion of it.
but they have no authority to tell us what guns we can and cannot have.
Now, I suppose we're all supposed to be, you know, just be grateful for the benevolent actions of
the ATF on the 29th day of April, 2026, when they gave this list of 34 things that they were going
to make all better for the gun industry and for gun owners. And we're supposed to just overlook.
All of their past transgressions and their murders and their destruction of families and businesses
under Biden and their willful violations of the supreme law. And we're supposed to overlook their
gun trafficking that they committed in order to malign and defame the American gun industry.
So, yeah, let's just let bygones be bygones. Let me ask you something,
my dear listeners. What laws has the ATF ever willingly realigned themselves with on their own
volition?
It's a really short list. Yeah, it's less than one. It seems like whenever they're held to account
by toothless politicians that demand they sit in front of them on Capitol Hill and answer a bunch
of stupid questions, whenever they're forced to answer for some of the lawless things they've done,
And by the way, this happens whenever the federal government wants to stage the charade of
investigating and repairing itself because the citizens had become utterly infuriated at their
behavior. Does it actually improve the agency in any way,
shape, or form? That was a rhetorical question, I know. So why should we really expect anything
differently this time? That's another rhetorical question. Here's a few of the items from the list
of their 34 acts of kindness and benevolence towards peaceable citizens and gun dealers who prove
daily that we're no threat to anybody except criminals and tyrants. both of which are in abundance
within the ATF. But anyway, here's just a few things that I pulled from this list,
because believe me, I don't want to go through each thing point by point. You probably never listen
to my podcast again. Now, as we read these, tell me exactly how any of these things are going to
diminish or mitigate the ATF's oppression against the gun industry and the citizenry,
especially in light of, what did he just say?
eliminate all infringements on Americans' Second Amendment rights. That came from the mouth of
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. I don't think he understands what infringements really are,
because nothing in this list is taking anything away. It's not taking really any power away from
the ATF. It's not granting any more leeway to the gun industry and all of its actors and personnel
therein. So what does it actually do? Well, you tell me as we go through this,
okay? Here's 1140-AA98. Removing factoring criteria for firearms with attached stabilizing braces.
ATF is proposing to formally rescind regulatory changes made in 2023 regarding firearms equipped
with stabilizing braces. Multiple federal courts have found that the 2023 rule,
as codified in 27 CFR 478.11 and 479.11,
violated the Administrative Procedures Act. We covered that on this program. And the rule has been
enjoined, stayed, or vacated across numerous jurisdictions. That begs the question,
why?
you know, unconstitutional or illegal, why has it,
have you continued to enforce this and even recently re-threatened to begin enforcement of it
again since 2023?
But there were... Federal courts have found that it violated the administrative procedures rule in
2023. Here it is three years later, 2026. And now you're saying, okay, we're going to abide by
that.
Pardon me if that doesn't really engender trust.
I know it doesn't in you either, but I'm still enforcing it.
But now they're saying, oh, okay, we're going to stop doing that now. We're being nice. No,
you're still criminals and you're still a bunch of lawless pigs, okay? This proposal removes
regulatory language that has been largely unenforceable, restoring the regulatory definitions to be
consistent with the underlying statutory definitions. Aw,
isn't that nice of them? Yeah, it's almost like you're going, we were wrong. Sorry. We're going to
align our rules and regulatory definitions, which we write from the agency.
We're going to go ahead and realign them to actual statutory definitions.
You know, the stuff that's in writing that tells us we can or can't do something that we never pay
attention to, of course, unless we get caught on the carpet. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh,
one more thing, say they. If we, the ATF, ever change our minds again under some later new
administration, well, you're just going to have to register them as SBRs at that time.
I mean, we here at the ATF, we're committed to transparency and public safety after all. Yeah.
1140-AB01. They're going to revise regulations defining who and what is engaged in the business as
a dealer in firearms. ATF is revising regulatory changes it made to the definition of engaged in
the business of dealing firearms. The rule rescinds certain provisions of the definition as engaged
in the business, quote unquote.
I have one thing to say to that. Bull turtlenos.
They most certainly did produce the anticipated outcomes that were desired by the O'Biden
administration because They used those things to shut down hundreds of dealers who ran their
businesses out of their homes and at gun shows as licensed dealers and all under the Joe Biden
crime spree. And by the way, this revision is a little bit late to help Brian Malinowski.
Yeah, he was killed by ATF, murdered in his own home because they were trying to enforce this
engaged in the business rule against him because he sold various curios and relics and things like
that, uh, that he didn't realize he might need a license for. And I'm not, I'm still not sure he
really did need a license, but anyway, um,
Translation.
Translation. We admit we were essentially ignoring Congress and writing laws from the agency as
well as enforcing them however we saw fit. Why? Because here at the ATF,
we're committed to transparency and public safety. Mm-hmm. 1140-AA60.
Revising machine gun definition in response to Supreme Court decision. This is a final rule,
too. And you know how final those final rules are? They're not,
yeah. ATF is removing two sentences from its three regulatory definitions of machine guns that
previously incorporated so-called bump stocks into those definitions.
This action responds directly to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Garland v.
Cargill from 20... 24, which held that semi-automatic rifles equipped with bump stocks do not
satisfy the statutory definition of machine gun under the NFA.
This rescission aligns ATS regulatory text with the statute and the court's binding legal
interpretation. Okay, you know what they're saying here? Did you catch that?
Yeah. This ruling took place in 2024, and now two years later, they're saying, okay, we'll comply
with it. Well, why are they doing that? Well, because there's a quasi-Republican in charge now,
and there are some quasi-pseudo-conservatives, and they're trying to make concessions to gun
owners because they know we make up a huge voter base. Uh-huh, yeah.
And now they're saying, okay. Let's bring you boys back into statutory compliance.
How about y'all deal with that statute that was instituted back in 1791?
How about Article 2? Yeah. Two years. Two years.
2024. And finally, they say, we'll comply. I guess we should expect this from them.
After all, they refused to comply with the Second Amendment since... yeah.
Well, actually, since they were formed in 1972. Yeah. We here at the ATF want you to know we're
committed to transparency and public safety. 1140-AA87,
removing Youth Handgun Safety Act notice. What this is, because I work for a dealer,
this is a little trifold pamphlet, which was a massive waste of trees that basically stated,
just how dangerous it is to allow youth to handle handguns and such, or to leave them exposed for
untrained hands. And you know what, while I agree with it, we dealers have been forced to put one
of those in the box with every handgun, and we can face penalties for forgetting to put that little
trifold in the box with each handgun. Yeah, it was used. Often and repeatedly against gun dealers,
they would simply send in somebody to make a gun purchase. And if somebody forgot to put one of
those in the box, well, that could trigger a compliance audit or worse yet.
It says this 1998 regulation was established to inform purchasers of the 1994 Youth Handgun Safety
Act.
Well,
so you're trying to help out gun owners and gun purchasers now. Very nice. 1140 AA-82 Revising
Firearms Transaction Record, Form 4473. ATF is proposing comprehensive updates to ATF Form 4473,
the firearms transaction record required for all commercial firearms transfers so they can take the
information and make an illegal firearms registry. And it's implementing regulations.
The proposed rule would streamline identity and residency verification requirements for
transferees. It would increase the time period for which a National Instant Criminal Background
Check System background check remains valid. It would clarify exceptions to background checks.
permit electronic notice and authorize the use of electronic forms,
auto population, and digital records attachments.
All of that's been authorized since 2016. So how does this help gun owners or the gun industry in
any way, shape, or form, actually? Yes, 2016 is when you guys said it was okay to use electronic
records because you began to see the benefit of having them store them on clouds using cloud
companies to store them. Yeah, and then you whip out your credit card and purchase that data from
the cloud company.
The proposed rule would also incorporate ATF rulings and other guidance to align regulations with
their authorizing statutory text, as well as make minor technical revisions. Of course,
they're going to be minor. These updates reflect modern business practices and are intended to
reduce administrative burden on law-abiding citizens and businesses while maintaining robust
safeguards against unlawful transfers. Translation. All right,
we're backing off a little, but we're still in control of the free exercise of the right to keep
and bear arms, and don't you make any mistake about that at all. And now for ATF's typical
redundancy. They repeat themselves again in 1140-AA94.
Firearms electronic record keeping.
ATF is proposing to formally Authorize federal firearms licensees to generate,
maintain, and store required records, including ATF Form 4473 and acquisition and disposition
records, using electronic record-keeping systems. Okay, one more time.
That was allowed back in 2016. So, a question here. If it's been authorized since 2016,
why are we getting this grand... as if they're doing something new and wonderful for FFLs.
Well, the answer is they want to steer all FFLs towards electronic records keeping so the ATF can
have easier access to their records. without having to acquire a court order. Again,
listen, trust me when I tell you that they are going to soon mandate electronic record storage.
If you remember when all those ATF agents were going into gun dealer businesses and photographing
their A&D records, repeatedly the, what should I say,
the agent doing the inspection would ask, why don't you use electronics records?
And ask it angrily, like you would make it so much easier for us, we would not have to take all
these pictures. Yeah, and they were doing that illegally. They had no right to just simply take
pictures of the A&D records of these dealers. Yeah, nobody talks about that part, of course.
I bet you they're going to mandate it soon. Then, again... Whenever they wish to enhance their
illegal registry, they're simply going to whip out the federal credit card and purchase every last
gigabyte of data from every FFL's electronics record system and storage provider.
I promise you that. They're trying to make this look like they're throwing us dogs a nice bone. No,
they're not. They're not relinquishing one bit of control. ATF has already permitted this practice
for many licensees through blanket and individual variance authorizations.
This proposal codifies that authority into regulation, standardizing electronic record keeping
across the industry. In other words, you're going to do it according to our format. That ain't
good. Reducing the paperwork burden on licensees and...
Enhancing ATF's ability to support timely firearm tracing and investigative efforts.
Okay.
Listen here. Listen close. Every week, at least once or twice a week,
we get a call where I work. The ATF wants to run a trace on a gun. They tell us you received it
from this agency or you received it from the manufacturer or you received it from this other
distributor on such and such a date because they've already done the backtrace on that.
And they're trying to find the end user on it. They're just running the trail of custody, so to
speak. And it takes time for them to do that. They think they shouldn't have to actually spend that
kind of time to actually make phone calls. So in case you didn't catch that,
if you want to know how this is going to enhance their ability to, as they said,
support timely firearm tracing and investigative efforts, that's because if this is implemented,
they know all they'll need to do for such information. is consult their illegal registry or pull
the info from the cloud storage companies via credit card. I say again,
this is nothing less than designed to circumvent the Fourth Amendment.
I promise you that. Let's take a brief commercial timeout. When we come back, we're going to look
at some more of their proposals as they also benevolently lift their right boot off of the neck of
the industry and replace it with the left boot. Or is that the other way around, left to right?
Who knows? I don't want boots on my neck. Be right back with more Shooting Straight.
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Welcome back to the program. We've been addressing all of these new sweeping changes that the ATF
is claiming. to be performing. And of course, under the orders of acting attorney general,
Todd Blanche, and this is supposed to take some of the restrictions and some of the burdensome crap
off of the shoulders of gun dealers and gun owners and everything else. Believe me,
I'm not dealing with each and every thing on the list because there's just simply not enough time.
And a lot of it simply doesn't apply to dealers and owners. Let's look at 1140-AA95,
firearm records retention periods. Now, when I was a dealer, I was told,
you need to keep your records for up to 20 years. Okay. That's what it was for the longest time.
And actually, before that, it was like 10 years. So he kept it for 10 years, but then they started
going in. And matter of fact, one of the sponsors of this program told me they had come in back
when it was still only 10 years and demanded 20 years worth of records.
Yeah, I mean, not 20 years worth, but to go back 20 years into his records. So laws and statutes
and... You know, industry standard practices don't mean crap to them.
But it says, ATF is proposing to replace the current practice of indefinite retention of federal
firearms licensees. Yeah, that happened under Biden, too. It went from 20 years to indefinite.
Yeah, in other words, you pay for your own storage. You have to buy storage trailers if you're a
big dealer or whatever, just to keep all the freaking paperwork. Yeah. It was formerly 20 years.
Records with definite retention periods for ATF Forms 4473 and acquisition and disposition records.
ATF is considering retention periods of either 20 or 30 years. You really think it's going to be
20? And is requesting public comment on the appropriate time frame for certain records.
I've already left my comments. You leave yours. ATF also proposes a 20- or 30-year retention
period, it'll be 30, that it would be required for ATF's out-of-business records center at the
National Tracing Center. The proposal introduces a 90-day retention period for records related to
private party transfers and voluntary firearm handler checks.
Yeah, because they won't need you to retain the records. simply purchase them from the
aforementioned data collection centers that's going to be processing all the storage of the 4473s,
okay? Additionally, the proposal includes a five-year retention period for multiple sales reports,
pistols, and revolvers, that is ATF Form 3310.4. theft loss reports,
ATF Form 3310.11, and Forms 4473, where the transaction was initiated but not completed.
This update reflects standard federal records management principles and provides regulatory clarity
for licensees. I assure you there's no such thing as regulatory clarity.
I'll tell you why. When I was a gun dealer. I would call the ATF with a question,
and the person would tell me, well, this is what I think it is. But here, let me give you somebody
else's number. Maybe they can help you. So they'd give me a number to another agent, and I'd call
that agent. That agent would give me something entirely different. I'm not kidding you when I tell
you this. I was passed around like a joint at a Snoop Dogg concert to five different agents,
and every blasted one of them gave me a different rendition and their opinion about what a
particular statute or regulation or rule actually meant.
Yeah, this is not going to bring clarity to anybody or anything.
1140-8889, Interstate Transport and Temporary Export of National Firearms Act.
ATF is proposing to update the administrative process for transporting lawfully registered NFA
firearms within the United States. What that means is right now, if I want to drive to Georgia with
one of my suppressed weapons, I have to apply. I think it's a Form 1,
is it? Form 1 or Form 3, I don't remember which one. I have to apply for a permission slip from the
ATF just to cross Georgia's state lines with that weapon. That's how tight a control they've got on
it, you understand? Under the proposal, individuals transporting NFA firearms for short-term
purposes, 365 days or fewer, would no longer be required to submit advance notice to ATF or await
approval before departing. Aww, you guys are so wonderful and benevolent.
Hmm. Individuals transporting NFA firearms for long-term purposes,
more than 365 days, or permanent relocation would still submit notice but would not need to await
ATF approval before transporting. They're making it so easy for themselves to maintain control
without having to answer all those pesky phone calls from us low-life peons or answer the emails
requesting their also vaunted permission to simply travel from one state to the other with a short
-barreled rifle, with a fully automatic weapon, or with a suppressor.
This changed to ATF Form 5320. is intended to remove an unnecessary regulatory burden on law
-abiding NFA firearms owners without affecting applicable federal,
state, or local requirements. How about removing that regulatory burden that was placed upon us
back in 1934? That'd be even better. By the way, this is a stark admission that they have been
burdening the peaceable citizenry the entire time.
1140-AB00. Joint registration for spouses under the National Firearms Act.
What this refers to is if you own a suppressor or you own a short-barreled rifle or other
regulated NFA item, unless your spouse is listed via trust with you as a co-owner of that,
well, when you pass on... She's going to have to turn that thing back into ATF,
not turn it back into them. They didn't buy it. But anyway, she's going to have to have it
forfeited to the ATF or she's going to have to go through the same rigmarole you did to buy it.
And that is go through the registration process and all that crap. Now, as I understand it,
according to some of the things being leaked out by GOA, there is a heavy movement to strike.
and short-barreled rifles from the NFA roster, as it should be.
So it says, under a joint registration, the transfer of a firearm between spouses would not
constitute a separate NFA transfer, reducing both administrative burden and cost for law-abiding
NFA firearms owners. But it's still going to bind the spouse to the mandates of having that stamp.
That's the bottom line. She's going to be just as responsible. So tell me how that removes any
unnecessary regulatory burden. It really doesn't. 1140-AA65,
removing CLEO notification under the National Firearms Act. And what this was,
was this requirement was you had to forward your documents whenever you bought an NFA firearm.
The proof of that had to be sent to your local chief law enforcement officer.
And it's been legally challenged multiple times. And as they put it here,
it has not achieved its intended public safety outcomes. Translation,
we were wrong again. Sorry, but we don't care.
1140-AA73, clarifying interstate transportation of firearms under the Gun Control Act.
ATF is proposing to clarify regulations that govern the interstate transportation of firearms by
lawful owners. The proposed rule formally recognizes that common,
reasonably necessary activities during travel, including overnight stops,
vehicle maintenance, refueling, emergency stops, and medical treatments, are considered as a
necessary part of, quote-unquote, transport, and are therefore covered under the Firearm Owners
Protection Act's Interstate Transport protections. The proposed rule also updates requirements for
transporting ammunition and firearms accessories and clarifies requirements for securing firearms
during transit. Okay, anything listed there that's actually going to help diminish the ATF's power
over the industry? No. What is really happening here in all of these things?
What are they actually achieving? I have to know. What is the general,
what should I say, benefit for all of us?
1140-AA75, transferring machine guns between qualified licensees.
ATF is proposing to simplify regulatory requirements for machine gun transfers between licensed
manufacturers, importers, and dealers in two specific limited circumstances.
Number one. When demonstrating firearms to government entities, of course,
they get top billing and they get top consideration, don't they? And two,
when a life... is discontinuing a business, and that is they want to transfer any NFA items to
another dealer or sell them to another dealer without having to go through the rigmarole of
applying for a stamp to just take them off his books. So it says this reduces unnecessary
regulatory complexity. for these narrow commercial transactions while maintaining all applicable
NFA requirements and federal licensing control.
They're not relinquishing any control here, people. This is not as benevolent as it is made to
sound. They're also talking about...
Clarifying the regulation for training rounds, including, as they put here in 1140-AA97,
including inert, marking, or simulated projectile products used for training purposes,
that is like simunition and other things like that. They do not meet the statutory definition of
ammunition under the Gun Control Act. and are therefore not regulated under the Gun Control Act or
the Arms Exports Control Act, provided the round is not for a firearm.
Really? Well, how does that help? Because these simunitions are made for firearms.
Yeah, they're special firearms made for shooting simunitions, but there's a double meaning here.
This codification provides regulatory certainty, it does, for importers,
manufacturers, and law enforcement suppliers who produce, acquire, or distribute these products.
Yes, yet another stark admission that they've been in violation the whole time under Biden.
Yes, they didn't care. Look, you're not catching the recurring theme in all of this.
It's simply... We were wrong about these rules that we made,
and we're going to realign ourselves with the statute. Okay, the next administration that comes
along, if it is not friendly to the Constitution, what do you think is going to happen? They're
simply going to change all of their rules again, even their final rules.
Oh, this is one of my favorites. The 4473 form.
if you had them from like three or four months ago, you can check male,
female, or non-binary. Oh, but they're going to change that.
ATF is proposing to amend its regulations to clarify, in response to questions about sex on ATF
forms, individuals... should select their biological sex.
Now, they're making a pretty strong statement here. I hope they're ready for it. This refers, it
says, to the individual's immutable biological classification. I promise you the ATF did not come
up with that phrase. As either male or female, it does not include the concept of gender identity.
Well, you know, just the fact that they willingly lent themselves to the imposition of DEI
standards kind of proves their willingness to swim with the tide and do whatever any president
tells them to. This is exceedingly dangerous for the American people. If you want proof that they
do this, listen. Next sentence. These are clarifying amendments to align ATF's regulatory forms
with the President's signed Executive Order 14168, defending women from gender ideology extremism
and restoring biological truth to the federal government, and do not alter any substantive
eligibility criteria. Yeah, I'm very happy that they're implementing these sane...
changes under Trump. But again, their admission is that they'll happily adjust their alignment to
satisfy the next Democrat communist president too. They go with the wind.
Whoever's paying their check, whoever's in charge of writing their checks, they're the person that
they're going to align their rules and regulations with. So,
excuse me. I could go on and on and on. There's a bunch of these things that they go through,
talking about willful violations. Under Biden,
a willful violation was any violation, whether it was really willful or not. They would simply
declare it as willful, and they simply stated that all violations are willful. That's what they
said. And now they're saying, okay, we're not going to do that anymore either. We'll be nice. They
talk about straw purchases and things like that. They talk about various tax remittances and such
like that. They also, one part it says, the proposed definition would implement the standard
established by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bryan v. United States. You know, that was a 1998 ruling
under which a person acts willfully when they know their conduct is unlawful,
even if unaware of the specific statutory provision being violated. It's taken 28 years for them to
align themselves with that one sensible ruling. So you'll have to forgive me if I don't view this
as capitulatory, if I don't view this as them trying to unscrew themselves and align themselves
with the supreme law. I don't trust this. I'm leery of acting AG Todd Blanche.
Now, while I appreciate this much effort, it doesn't even begin to come close to what needs to
happen. Not even close. And I'm sorry, I don't trust AG Blanche's...
constitutional prowess any more than I do Pam Bondi's at this point if he's talking about out of
one side of his face removing all infringements of the right to keep and bear arms and then on the
other side being content with letting the ATF just make some changes here and there.
If you really want to take that burden off of gun owners, if you really want to cease the
infringements upon gun owners, you strip down the ATF down to nothing.
You burn down every building that they occupy. I mean,
figuratively, you strip them out. You kick them out. They don't belong. They cannot have,
they do not have a constitutional right to exist.
for the purpose of enforcing infringements upon the people and the gun industry.
That's what they do. That's what they've always done since 1972. It's what they will continue to
do. All of these accolades and all of these overtures they're making in our direction don't mean
crap to me. And I'm telling you out there, my fellow listeners, don't you dare. Put your guard down
with these scumbags. They are not the kinder, gentler ATF, and they never will be.
So you stay armed up, and you stay trained up, and you stay stocked up on beans,
bullets, and bandages. And don't you ever forget, incoming rounds always have the right of way.
Royce out.