Well.. that just happened. ATF classification ruling that ArmBrace = SBR

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My entire LE career was going after criminals for a propensity for violence during years spent on drug task force and joint terrorism task force investigations. Which leads to augment your comments. I was trained by old school agents, many being military veterans. I worked with ATF special agents who were also old school, i.e., patriots who often were military veterans and saw federal gun laws as a means to help dismantle violent criminal groups. Not what we have today in several instances.

In other words, generational differences influenced investigative approaches. Shortly after 9-11, I recall working with a new Ivy League educated FBI agent. This was after another terrorist attack against U.S. interests. The FBI agent commented that the United States needs to examine itself as to why we're making certain Middle Eastern terror groups mad at us. I wanted to Alice Kramden him to the moon but chose not to.

Fast forward to where we are today. While retired, I am still beneficiary as to how things are in the Federal LE workplace. It has become worse than when I retired 4 years ago. The "woke mindset" is alive and unfortunately well in Federal LE. No doubt that the "wokeness" has infiltrated the ATF to a degree as it has numerous other Federal LE agencies. Again, much being attributable to generational differences.

Now being a FFL, I help to educate people about the Second Amendment along with promoting the Second Amendment by going out-of-pocket to a good degree. A lot of us are doing our parts as patriots. I hope that it's enough.

Check out Clean Up ATF.org sometime if you want to peek under ATF’s skirt some more.

They’ve had major problems for decades. When they threaten one of their main agents who was UC with the motorcycle gangs, by saying they will get cartel informants/assets to film his wife being raped before they kill her and his kids, burn his house down, and stick the murder/arson charges on him, you know they went off the deep end long ago.

Their whole focus on the motorcycle gangs is based on the interstate commerce argument the AG and Asst AG made in 1934 before Congress. In addition to weaponizing Congress’s power to tax as a way around the Bill of Rights and Constitution, they also suggested using Interstate Commerce laws to charge hardened criminal gangsters and bank-robbers from transporting firearms across State lines was another legal tool to be enacted.

The thinking behind AG Cummings and Asst AG Keenan’s arguments in 1934 were entirely unconstitutional, and created a weird set of regulations about interstate transport that only hurt the people. The idea was to make it easier to arrest and prosecute suspects who were traveling over State lines in possession of firearms, which is part of the right to keep and bear. They didn’t like it because some of the cases built against gangsters (who were moving from one safe house to another across State lines) were pretty flimsy and didn’t result in the convictions they wanted.

It criminalizes the conduct of the entire citizenry just to catch a tiny gaggle of gangsters and bank-robbers in early 1930s America.

Interstate Commerce clauses are meant to promote, unify, and standardize trade between the States, not bottleneck or restrict it. That whole argument is fundamentally flawed and openly so.

ATF and BoN/DEA were big on that back in the 1970s and 1980s since DOJ could use the same provisions to prosecute gangs for smuggling.

The problem is, it’s a tempting tool for LEOs and DAs to use to penalize the citizens for normal and lawful conduct protected by the Constitution, since we don’t have a criminal standard of law like in other countries, despite ATF’s and DOJ’s attempts to change that into more of a police state.