Though today is technically festivus. I’ll begin the airing of grievances with overly complicated and useless password requirements.

Light blogging during the holidays. Ya’ll be safe and enjoy the time off.

Right here:

Some have used our October 2017 statement to claim that NRA supports ATFs final rule, but as NRA-ILAs Executive Director Chris Cox noted only days after our statement was issued, We dont believe that bans have ever worked on anything.

We also made this clear in our comments to ATF on the proposed rule earlier this year. In our comments, we further advised that ATF should at a minimum make an amnesty period available to deal with the fundamental inequity imposed on law-abiding gun owners who purchased their bump fire stocks in good faith reliance on prior ATF determinations. We continue to pursue the availability of a period of amnesty with the administration.

Police in Vermont stopped a school shooting. Sounds good, right? Except:

After confirming the whereabouts and establishing short-term plans for both young suspects, police turned their attention to securing their alleged source of guns.

We executed what is called an extreme risk order (Monday) night at a relatives house who had all these firearms, Hanley said. They were locked up (in the home), but one of these kids said he had access to them and could get them. So we took advantage of that extreme risk order statute that was passed. We needed to separate the person from their ability to do this.

Hanley on Tuesday morning wasnt sure of the exact inventory of the more than 10 confiscated weapons, but said they largely consisted of hunting rifles and handguns. He doesnt believe any semi-automatic assault rifles or shotguns were among the bunch.

A relative, not involved in the potential shooting in any way, had their guns confiscated? Wouldn’t just arresting the suspects kind of take care of that?

Heh: Tragic: Every Single Bump Stock In Nation Suddenly Lost In Boating Accident

This is one of the oddest accidental discharges I’ve seen:

Gun owners aren’t turning over their recently banned magazines in New Jersey.

Fake news: Politicians, lawyers, telemarketers, and journalists sit at the low end of a new survey asking which profession has the highest ethics and honesty.

New York Court Order Concludes Gun Permit Insufficient Cause for Car Search

There has already been a lawsuit filed against the ban:

Today, attorneys for an owner of a bump-stock device and three constitutional rights advocacy organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump Administrations new confiscatory ban on firearm parts, additionally challenging Matthew Whitakers legal authority to serve as Acting Attorney General and issue rules without being nominated to the role and confirmed by the Senate or by operation of law. A copy of the court filings can be viewed at www.bumpstockcase.com.

The plaintiffs also filed a motion seeking a temporary injunction to prevent the Trump Administration from implementing and enforcing the new regulation. The lawsuit, captioned as Guedes, et al. v. BATFE, et al., is backed by Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF), and Madison Society Foundation (MSF), also institutional plaintiffs in the case.

Meanwhile, the NRA is disappointed.

And if you need instructions on how to properly destroy your bump stock, that you may have lost in a boating accident, the ATF has instructions.

While we gun nuts no that this a stupid ruling with no basis in the law, I doubt that we will win this issue due to public perception and the general ignorance about firearms most people have.

She’s awesome:

One woman shows us the 9MM she is turning in for the Baltimore City Gun Buy Back program. But she says she is using the cash to get a bigger weapon! Story on FOX45 at 4pm. pic.twitter.com/LlmCbezpU7

— Kathleen Cairns (@CairnsKcairns) December 17, 2018

The AP:

The Senate passed a sweeping criminal justice bill Tuesday that addresses concerns that the nations war on drugs had led to the imprisonment of too many Americans for non-violent crimes without adequately preparing them for their return to society.

Senate passage of the bill by a vote of 87-12 culminates years of negotiations and gives President Donald Trump a signature policy victory, with the outcome hailed by scores of conservative and liberal advocacy groups. The House is expected to pass the bill this week, sending it to the presidents desk for his signature.

This strikes me as a good thing.

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So, Trump’s DOJ unilaterally and unlawfully banned bump stocks. This could be done by congress, I would think. But I don’t know that this will stand. In other news, if you have a bumpstock, you’ll be a felon in 90 days if you don’t turn it in or destroy it.

So, where’s my national reciprocity and hearing protection act I was promised?

A judge in NY ruled they are protected by the second amendment. And, quite amazingly, this:

Evidence introduced during the trial showed that at least 64,890 wood or metal nunchucks were sold in the United States in the past 23 years.

Well, if that’s a criteria for “in common use”, I’ll take it.

So, in Memphis, the police chief wants to ban guns in cars. Because they get stolen.

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Feds Collect Record Taxes Through November; Still Run $305.4B Deficit

Venezuelans regret giving up their guns.

The NRA has a soft spot for the police and for good reason and politics. However, they should probably address the bad shoots that officers are involved in. Not completely off topic, but it made me laugh:

Outrage as New Jersey’s ban on regular capacity magazines applies to off duty cops.

A judge has ruled that Obamacare is illegal. I guess we’ll see how it fares at SCOTUS. It didn’t go my way the last time.

I’ll take a barrel of ammo from Brownells. 12,500 rounds of Lake City.

Well, OK

Remember Congressweasel Swalwell telling the world they’d just nuke gun owners who didn’t comply? When he was confronted by a pro gun activist, he tucked tail went running, presumably to his mom.

Only not:

Russian citizen Maria Butina pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to conspiring to influence U.S. politics through her connections to the National Rifle Association.

She basically meant some NRA people and attended an annual meeting.

Prosecutors don’t want jurors to know about Operation Fast and Furious:

Operation Fast and Furious is among the most epic boondoggles in the history of federal law enforcement, which probably explains why federal prosecutors dont want jurors in the trial of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaqun El Chapo Guzmn to hear anything about it.

Fast and Furious was intended as a sting operation by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms to bust gun-runners and straw purchasers along the border. But it ultimately led to American firearms being sent to Mexican cartels and later linked to murders, including the fatal shootings of a Border Patrol agent in 2010 and an ICE agent in 2011.

Altogether, the ATF lost track of about 2,000 weapons, some of which ended up in the hands of El Chapos Sinaloa cartel. Most notably, after El Chapo was captured following a shootout in the city of Los Mochis in 2016, a Barrett .50-caliber rifle linked to Fast and Furious was found inside the drug lords hideout.

How to cast your own bullets

HR 7115 is a proposed bill to ban the 3D printing of firearms. It also bans the 80% market:

(1) A firearm receiver casting or firearm receiver blank or unfinished handgun frame that

(A) at the point of sale does not meet the definition of a firearm in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code; and

(B) after purchase by a consumer, can be completed by the consumer to the point at which such casting or blank functions as a firearm frame or receiver for a semiautomatic assault weapon or machinegun or the frame of a handgun.

It also bans what is termed assault weapon parts kit (whatever that is) and machinegun parts kit.

PolitiFacts Lie of the Year: Online smear machine tries to take down Parkland students

So, a couple of whackos posting conspiracy theories online and this is indicative of some sort of conservative movement?