"near... [the corner of] Karen and Paradise"... you can't make this **** up.

 

Ghostbusters legal again!

 

Care to explain what the hell you're talking about?

 

I think he's referring to the recent Federal Court ruling in VanDerStok v. Garland, vacating the ATF's recent rule change on "80%" (ghost guns) receivers, finding that the ATF has no authority to make rules regarding things that are outside of their statutory purview.

 

Thank you. Unfortunately, the NYS attorney general issued cease and desist orders to all 80% manufacturers of all kinds and promised prosecution if they shipped to NY. Rather than fight it, they all capitulated. Rule by fiat.

 

GST-9 frames > Polymer80 frames.

The 80% arms metal jig is also with every penny over the formed plastic jigs. The formed plastic jigs are good to hold the frame in a vise to dremel, cut, sand the frame to finish it.

I just finished my first GST-9. Looking forward to taking it the range later this week.

 

This definitely goes in the Gun Rights thread... SUPPRESS ALL THE THINGS!

It's been well known what the problem was for decades... the stupid ******* way a single agent would spend days or weeks working on a single application while the rest of the ones what would be damn-near instant sat and waited. They could have made this move DECADES AGO, even when it was still all paper. In any case... watching the industry respond over the coming year should be cool.

https://www.themeateater.com/hunt/fi...l-time-by-5000

 

It's infuriating that so much waiting was caused ONLY by bureaucratic intransigence. The next step needs to be INSTANT approval for those who have already been through the full process and already have NFA items... the NICS check can be done at the retailer, just like a firearm. Everything else is already on file.

In other good news, Chevron Deference was tossed out by SCOTUS. This puts the leash back on all the bureaucracy, including ATF.

 

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She looks more dangerous than the gun she is holding.

 

When a toddler hits someone with a toy, responsible adults don't interrogate motive; they simply remove the toy. To a certain political faction, this metaphor is not a starting point but a governing philosophy: if a criminal uses a knife, ban the knife; if he uses a gun, ban the gun; if he uses a particular type of gun, ban that one too. Tools are the problem. Adults--those who commit the acts--are an afterthought.

Few countries demonstrate the futility of this approach more clearly than the United Kingdom. Each atrocity involving a weapon triggered another round of the same question: What object must now be removed from reach? Instead of confronting violent offenders, the UK confronted the hardware. Yet violent crime persisted--morphed, adapted, and found new tools. When guns were tightly restricted, knife crime soared. When knives were regulated, young men carried machetes, screwdrivers, hammers, bottles, and acid. Parliament responded with new lists of prohibited blades, new age-limit rules, new restrictions on online sales, and ultimately "Knife Crime Prevention Orders" that attempted to regulate not weapons, but individuals' daily movement.

But the adult remains unaddressed.

The UK's decades-long experiment is a powerful rebuttal to the fantasy now promoted by American progressives--most loudly by Democrats--who insist that violent crime is fundamentally a matter of accessible instruments, not dangerous individuals. After every shooting, their response is ritualistic: ban the rifle, ban the accessory, ban the magazine, ban the ammunition, ban the sale, ban the carry--remove the next object from the toddler's grasp. The implication is that the country is a nursery filled with impulsive children who cannot be trusted with sharp corners or electrical outlets.

The United States is now experiencing a wave of violent crime in cities governed by precisely this logic. Prosecutors decline to prosecute, judges decline to incarcerate, and police are discouraged from pursuing dangerous offenders. The tools become the focus. The criminal becomes the victim of circumstance. The offender is the mistreated child who simply found an attractive object and acted with insufficient supervision. Responsibility is recast as pathology; accountability becomes cruelty.

The UK has followed this logic to its natural end--and it still cannot escape the consequences of refusing to confront the actual drivers of violence. London's streets are now awash in a level of random violence the police and political class seem paralyzed to address. Instead of reversing course, they double down with more object-bans, more restrictions, more behavior-control orders.

Meanwhile, demographic and cultural shifts--stemming from years of high immigration from the developing world--have produced complex crime problems that no list of prohibited weapons can solve. The political class, terrified of acknowledging the societal implications, retreats into the comfort of banning things. It is far easier to outlaw a knife than to admit one's immigration and policing policies have failed.

This toddler-theory of governance allows leaders to treat symptoms while avoiding responsibility for causes. It is a political coping mechanism masquerading as policy.

The adult world requires adult solutions: policing, prosecution, incarceration, and the moral clarity to distinguish between law-abiding citizens and violent offenders. It demands a political class willing to name causes, not just ban objects; to confront the criminal, not his tools; to reject the fantasy that society can child-proof itself into public safety.

From handguns, shotguns to sharp pointed kitchen knives, the UK has spent sixty years removing every dangerous object from the room. Violence persisted anyway. America should take note. (emphasis added)

-an article on Substack by Michael Smith, Unlicensed Punditry

https://open.substack.com/pub/michae...of-crime-child