Sipsey Street Irregulars: This is no joke, and they've got to be saying "Oh, sh-t."

Saturday, January 10, 2009

This is no joke, and they've got to be saying "Oh, sh-t."

Folks, this letter has just been sent by the ATF to dealers. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that the ATF has allowed this. This means that so many weapons have been sold in this country that the volume has outstripped the ability of the ATF to provide forms to cover it. I LOVE it.

Mike
III

U.S. Department of Justice
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Assistant Director

Washington, DC 20226

January 6, 2009
Notice to All Federal Firearms LicenseesRegarding ATF Form 4473 Shortage
As a result of an unprecedented increase in demand for ATF Forms 4473 (5300.9) Part I Revised August 2008, inventory of the form at the ATF Distribution Center is running low.
As a temporary measure, ATF is allowing FFLs to photocopy the form 4473 in it’s entirety until they receive their orders from the ATF Distribution Center. A notice will be posted at the expiration of this temporary authorized change.

9 comments:

kahr40 said...: I'd read about the shortage and half expected the ATF to say no form no sale. The fact that they are even allowing the use of photcopied forms suprises the hell out of me.; January 10, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Anonymous said...: Don't get me wrong this is great news and gives a serious wake-up call to any gun grabbers who might be thinking about getting militant. But what happens when an anti-gun AG orders an anti-gun BATFE head to stop printing the forms and not allow anyone to use photocopies? They aren't 'denying' your rights, because you can still buy from dealers using the BATFE's (I believe the cost is) $12,000 computerized version? And then they come out with a required 'upgrade' for only $10,000. Every three months.

Just because we're paranoid, doesn't mean they really aren't out to get our guns, it just makes their job that much more dangerous.; January 10, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Anonymous said...: Ah...unintended consequences at play.

I think the Clintonista years really woke up a good percentage of the population.; January 10, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Crustyrusty said...: Dear Lord in heaven, you'd think they'd get the hint....; January 10, 2009 at 7:28 PM
W W Woodward said...: I hope and pray that most of the firearms purchased are on the Obamamama's silly-assed proposed assault weapons list.

The more of the weapons he and his are trying to get banned that are commonly owned by American citizens the harder it will be for them to do so without running afoul of Heller.

I have an order in for an AR-15. They're scarcer than hens' teeth.; January 10, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Anonymous said...: We have a little over a week before the moral imbeciles in washington begin their march toward the inevitable. Waste no time get what you need now.; January 11, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Anonymous said...: This is good news until BATFU decides to change the rules mid game.; January 11, 2009 at 7:26 PM
CorbinKale said...: I celebrated this most recent display of ATF incompetence by reloading another 300 rounds of .223.; January 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Anonymous said...: Saw a lot of those bad guns leaving the Knife and Gun Show. BTW, here is a link to the Rodeo Song. I think of it when I think of f troopers etal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7j83ry9Dg8; January 12, 2009 at 11:48 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Saturday, January 10, 2009

This is no joke, and they've got to be saying "Oh, sh-t."

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