Posts by Aaron Spuler
ATF Illegally Storing Personal Information
A government report discovered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) illegally stockpiles gun owners’ personal information. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the go-to federal oversight agency, conducted an audit of ATF and found it does not remove certain identifiable information, despite the law explicitly mandating it do so. GAO conducted reviews…
Read MoreITAR Confusion And More
This’ll make your head explode… more reason that bureaucrats with limited to no firearm knowledge should not be writing complex firearm legislation. If You Thought ITAR Was Bad…Firearm and Ammunition Manufacturing, Importing (and Gunsmithing) Taxes
Read MoreThe Battle of Athens
2 AUGUST 1946 I. Introduction On 2 August 1946, some Americans, brutalized by their county government, used armed force to overturn it. These Americans wanted honest, open elections. For years they had asked for state or Federal election monitors to prevent vote fraud — forged ballots, secret ballot counts, and intimidation by armed sheriff’s deputies…
Read More‘Will Not Rest’ Until Gun Reform Achieved
Executive Order Puts Gunsmiths Under ITAR Regulations
On Friday, July 22, just as members of his party were gathering in Philadelphia to coronate Hillary Clinton as their presidential nominee, the Obama Administration once again released a sweeping gun control measure by executive fiat. This time the bad news came via the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), which is…
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