Sipsey Street Irregulars: Oops! Airsoft diktat officially rescinded! Was this a Chief Counsel's Office attempt to manipulate Melson into discrediting himself?

Friday, November 12, 2010

Oops! Airsoft diktat officially rescinded! Was this a Chief Counsel's Office attempt to manipulate Melson into discrediting himself?

ATF Chief Counsel's Office slips Deputy Director Melson another exploding cigar.

The ATF Pressroom admitted to me by phone this morning that ATF Ruling 2010-4, seen here in Google cache, has been rescinded!

It would seem that I was right when I speculated that somebody maneuvered Deputy Director Kenneth Melson into signing something he did not understand would blow up in his face. He is beginning to look like Charlie Brown and the football. This is not by accident. The Chief Counsel's Office has run ATF for years as temporary directors came and went and they are not interested in any competition. Nor are they interested in cleaning up their act.

Meanwhile, in a barely noticed apologia, General Sebastian Snowflake presents the NRA party line on this ludicrous carnival sideshow, proving once again that there is nothing he will not excuse if his "Lairds of Fairfax" Homintern masters tell him to.

Teresa Ficaretta sets up Deputy Director Melson, again.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: A little birdie stated that the ATF never actually fired a round from the airsoft lower, just slapped the upper on the lower and said "since it fits, it's a firearm". Any truth to this?; November 12, 2010 at 8:58 AM
Anonymous said...: BATFE has long ago crossed the line. They are trying to justify their miserable existance with this kind of crap. When called on it, they recind the letter and try to act like nothing ever happened.

DEFUND THE ATF!; November 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Defender said...: Sebastian says: "So I don’t think this is really something ATF deserved to be mocked over. It sounds as if some of these Airsoft replicas are indeed close enough to AR-15/M16 receivers to function as such."
And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be an Indy car. It would only take drilling a few holes and installing the hardware.
First time I've been to Snowflakes in Hell. Seen enough.
Shall Not Be Infringed says it all.
Sebastian will be OK with them registering blocks of balsa wood and bars of soap.; November 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Allen said...: http://www.weaponeer.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8035&PN=1&TPN=3

so, by this logic, all trees and plastics are now machine guns.

an honest man would throw up his hands, and tell his boss "they're going to laugh us out of a job if we declare this"

but try to find an honest man in the ATF; November 12, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Bad Cyborg said...: Snowflake's post and his responses are proof positive that in his eyes the BATFE can do no wrong.

Defund the AFT, Anon @ 7:04 AM? Defund the NRA!! They have totally forgotten their raison d'etre. How any thinking (please notice that I did not write "RIGHT" thinking) NRA member can continue is beyond me. NO WAY IN HELL am I going to renew my own membership. Anything I get from the NRA goes into the recycle bin - unopened.

Bad Cyborg X; November 12, 2010 at 12:09 PM
MamaLiberty said...: I LOVE the picture! Thank goodness my mouth was empty when I saw it... I'd have chili all over the keyboard and monitor now otherwise - and possibly up in my nose! :)

I've GOT to quit eating lunch at the computer.; November 12, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Capt45 said...: I agree with Bad Cyborg, but I was gifted with a Life membership to NRA and the budget won't let me do the same with GOA.

I'm sorry about that. I did write a letter about the "Homintern" thing though. Don't expect to hear back.; November 12, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Anonymous said...: Good the NRA doesn't need Socialists anyway so quit!; November 12, 2010 at 9:27 PM

"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.

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"A common language of resistance . . ."

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