01-25-2023, 04:21 AM
LRRPF52 Wrote:Look at the 10 years of pistol FET classification and taxation precedence, which I mentioned and didnt see anyone talking about. He addressed that in this video.
Same for imports. You have to look at the evidentiary chain of classification and transactions, all backed with FET paid by manufacturers, in conjunction with the ATF determination letters dating back to Nov 26, 2012.
When Alex Bosco sent his initial sample for a determination letter, he didnt have any manufacturing capacity, so he went to Sig.
Sigs attorneys didnt just accept that letter, and requested another clarification to satisfy their legal requirements before they moved forward with manufacturing the Sig Brace.
Then in 2014, ATF responded thusly to a request from a Colorado police department:
So there has been a 10-year record of FETs collected on these classified as pistols, numerous official determination letters from ATF to private citizens, large manufacturers, and LEOs.
ATFs argument now is basically that well just pretend that the determination letters dont exist, that 10 years of FET taxes collected never happened, and that these have always been a totally different classification of firearm under the NFA.
Thats a really weak set of arguments from a legal perspective.
The totality of the evidence in how ATF and Treasury has classified and taxed these pistols for the past 10 years fundamentally destroys any arguments they are now trying to make.
It seems clear they are under pressure to do something in the way of anti-2A legislation from the WH more than anything, and the ATF Director and his staff gambled that this was a great way to do that.
Well said. Excellent points about the collection of FETs on classified pistols and the attempt to now re-classify them as SBRs subject to NFA.
When I was active Federal LE in Southern California and then Washington, D.C., the main emphasis of ATF at least in those locales was "G and G" (Gangs and Guns). How times have changed.