Nuclear Option for 41P
If it’s enacted, the internet to the rescue:
There are still many CLEOs in the U.S. who not only will sign, they are supporters of NFA ownership. Yes, they may be in the minority, but ….
A legal entity has no limit, under the law, to the number of “responsible persons” who must submit prints, pix and CLEO signoffs.
So if 41P becomes law:
Corporations (in states where they are free) or trusts could be set up, and a concerted internet effort could be made to recruit corp/trust members from among those who CAN get CLEO signoffs. I’m guessing that when the word gets around, a trust or corp might have 10,000, or more, “responsible persons.”
The corps or trusts then file Form 4’s to Atlanta for cheap suppressors, or file Form 1’s to W.Va. Each application runs 10,000+ pages (one for each “responsible person.”). And each trust or corp can file thousands of applications.
Packaged up and mailed in simultaneously, ATF/Atlanta and ATF/W.Va. would have to deal with the arrival of truckloads and truckloads of paperwork, all on the same day.
I believe they simply would not have the physical space to store these on-site, so they would have to find storage off-site. Which would make an incredible photo op for the local media: “Government office overwhelmed by tax forms; must rent outside storage space.”
Yes, it wouldn’t just slow down applications. Instead, everything would grind to a halt. That’s why it’s a nuclear option.
But completely shutting down ATF/Atlanta, and NFA Branch in W.Va., would certainly draw attention to a useless rule change, on a national basis.
Trouble is, that all those suppressors you’ve been waiting on for months would now take years.
Ed note: C&Ped the whole thing because posts on subguns disappear.
December 11th, 2013 at 11:01 pm
“Trouble is, that all those suppressors you’ve been waiting on for months would now take years.”
The government would consider this a feature and reduce the number of employees processing the forms to a handful. Approval time would “necessarily skyrocket” as the bungler-in-chief says.
December 12th, 2013 at 8:36 am
This is the “shoot yourself in the foot” option.
December 12th, 2013 at 9:56 am
Another multiplier would be for a club or group to hire a NFA attorney and have a “trust party”. A group of friends, family, colleagues meet together over a weekend, each starts a trust and each includes all the other attendees in the trust.
Venue technical conference, retreat, convention, gun show, etc. Put on seminar on how to maintain the trust.
December 12th, 2013 at 10:28 am
The problem with “overwhelm the system” is that it only works if those running “the system” deem themselves bound by honor to actually do their “job”.
When the “leadership” of “the system” implies it’s OK to simply ignore the actual demands of the job (that they defined for themselves), demand more “assistants”, more (expensive)”office supplies”, and “special” extensions, from what has been proved by actually competent folk in the past, the obvious resolve of holding THEIR boss accountable for hiring incompetent cronies, and supplanting the subventious, (AKA clean house, drain the swamp, clear out the dead weight, etc.)ALWAYS seems to elicit astonishingly well researched plaints involving projection, “fairness”, and demands for MORE of “someone else’s” money to “fix” it.
Todays new phrase: Writ of Mandamus
Of course, those don’t apply until AFTER “somebody” cannot, or WILL not, preform the function they have sworn to do.
And when the “justice” with the onus of “justicing” (sic) REFUSES to do THEIR clearly defined job, well…
December 12th, 2013 at 10:41 am
And thus CaptDMO refutes Cloward and Piven.
Brilliantly reasoned, although perhaps a generation too late. They seem to be in charge of everything else already. A little conscience turned out to be a dangerous thing. Now everyone has a little conscience.
December 13th, 2013 at 1:12 am
You know, if simple compliance with the process, as defined by their changed regulation, result in the process slowing to a halt, that’d make a great basis for anyone with a Form 4 in process to make a Due Process challenge.
It’d be a clean case, much like the Illinois total ban on carry that was struck down by the 7th Circuit. After they lost there, the anti-gunners didn’t want the case being appealed to the Supreme Court because they were so sure to lose that a SC ruling could blow up other state’s restrictions on carrying.
December 16th, 2013 at 1:56 pm
Apparently none of you have heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. How do you think he played with their system? They were rulers bound by rules. He used the rules against them. That’s what this would do too.
December 16th, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Okay apparently I got it wrong. It was Vladimir Bukovsky.
http://markstoval.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/vladimir-bukovsky-and-fighting-the-system/