Both the Trading Post and Ryan’s blog.

Oh, yeah, we spent it all on an armored personnel carrier for Dellview, North Carolina. The WaPo: Violent crime has increased in some cities in recent years in part because local police are too cash-strapped to fight it, the ATF chief said Monday. The comments by Michael J. Sullivan, acting director of the Bureau of […]

Mag prices to go up 40%? Uh, why?

David Codrea says US Marshal Judicial Security Inspector David A. Meyer threatened him with arrest for his blog. More specifically, he told Ryan from Red’s Trading Post to pass along a message. Essentially, the agent has asserted that if David threatens or incites, he’ll be arrested. Now, David and I don’t see eye to eye […]

Red’s Trading Post’s story has made the press again. This is interesting: The revelation of the 10-gun rule came during the first day of a scheduled two-day U.S. District Court hearing over the future of Red’s license. It offered a glimpse of how the ATF decides when and where to crack down on gun shops. […]

That’s a quote from a guy in the video about the ATF raid on Cavalry Arms. The guy owns a business nearby. Is it bad that my first thought is that the something probably consists of not crossing Ts or dotting an I or writing N instead of No on a form? ColtCCO: As with […]

Making a revolver. And making a 1911.

Ryan asks: Is anti-gun group’s FFL illegal? It appears so Seems they don’t comply with zoning.

Ryan notes: Sullivan in April 2007 touted the ATF’s “outstanding relationship” with IACP-International Associations of Chiefs of Police. An organization that has been exposed by the NRA as being in the pockets of a large gun control group. Fitting enough Acting ATF Director Michael J. Sullivan was one of the Keynote Speakers at IACP’s Great […]

News at Ryan’s: US District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge has denied the BATFE’s request for summary judgment in our case and has moved it on to trial. Ryan is excited.

Stallone endorsement.

Ryan looks at some software for FFLs

When ATF decides you are. In other news, the ATF has never heard of milsurp firearms: Over 75 percent of the firearms purchased by Novick retailed at less than $170. This information is not consistent with firearms being purchased by an individual purchaser for enhancement of his personal collection

What is not a machine gun this week may be next week, if the ATF happens to feel like it. Once again, the ATF is going after people for not breaking the law. Not the first time they’ve been caught deceiving in an effort to get a conviction.

Ryan notes some criticism of the act by GOA (which given their record on 2640, I might ordinarily be dismissive of – but not this time): The bill contains a number of relatively minor pro-gun provisions which we have championed for many years. However, the bill also contains, for the first time, “civil penalties” for […]

In North Carolina, another judge questions ATF’s definition of willful. And Senator Crapo on his hold of the Sullivan confirmation: I recently had the opportunity to meet with Acting Director Sullivan to inform him of multiple concerns that I have had in recent years with BATFE treatment of small firearms dealers. Mr. Sullivan conveyed his […]

Seems congress has wagged their finger at the ATF a couple of times for going after dealers who commit technical errors (i.e., writing a Y instead of spelling out Yes) a couple of times. But ATF continues to disregard those reprimands.

What media bias against guns? Short barreled shotgun porn. Looks like acting ATF Director Michael Sullivan is under fire again: This is one of the Judge’s that has criticized Sullivan in the past and at one point threatened to send a US Marshall to pull Sullivan out of a Dentist chair and bring him to […]

Sen. David Vitter has placed another hold on the confirmation of Michael Sullivan as ATF Director. This in addition to two Idaho senators doing the same. Hmm, maybe I’ll lose my bet. This a symbolic victory and a good thing.

Two Idaho senators put his confirmation on hold. Now John “My booger hook is on the bang switch” Kerry is asking they remove their hold on the confirmation.

I noted yesterday on the Sullivan confirmation that: Sorry, folks, but it’s a done deal. Mark it. Today, Ryan reports: I just came across the following article, Idaho Senators block ATF Pick. It appears that Second Amendment Senators Mike Crapo and Larry Craig have put a hold on Sullivan’s confirmation. It’s a hold but I’d […]

Len Savage of Historic Arms is no stranger to really annoying the ATF and suffering for it. Via Ryan, comes a bit by Savage entitled Am I an enemy of the US Government? A must read for looking at ATF’s tactics. There’s also an interview with him.

Ryan at Red’s Trading Post advocates contacting your Senators to oppose the confirmation of Michael Sullivan to head ATF. I concur. A successful politico from Massachusetts isn’t exactly someone I trust to enforce gun laws.

Testimony of Richard Gardiner on ATF enforcement actions. Read it all. Up next, here’s a Petition to US Congress and the ATF for Fair Treatment of FFL Dealers by the ATF. 5,000 signatures so far.

Over at Red’s Trading Post, there’s a letter from the acting ATF director responding to complaints to the National Ombudsman regarding the ATF shutting down firearms dealers. His letter addresses that there is no correlation between the dramatic decrease of nearly 150,000 licensees and ATF revocation actions. I don’t think he knows what correlation means […]

Well, SC sums it up: Red’s Trading Post and various and sundry gun bloggers and activists are urging everyone to contact the Senate to insist upon a “NO” vote on Micheal Sullivan confirmation as director of BATFE. David has a how to and instructions.

Fringe benefits if you don’t like cats.

Ted Kennedy: We’ll miss him in Massachusetts, but he’ll be a strong leader at ATF, and I look forward to working with him on key issues on gun control He’s referencing the acting head of ATF, Michael Sullivan.

Apparently, there’s a day for that.

All you need to know about Feldman’s book: Former ATF Director John W. Magaw, who at one time declared that the ATF is not anti-gun, has endorsed Richard Feldman’s latest anti-gun book Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist.