Sipsey Street Irregulars: An Open Letter To the Birmingham Field Office, ATF:

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

An Open Letter To the Birmingham Field Office, ATF:

To the Birmingham Field Office, ATF:

I just learned that you have been doing a trace of a firearm I purchased from a local dealer back in the early part of the last decade. This news is about three weeks old and I just learned about it today. Since that is all I know -- not even knowing what firearm it was -- I will be happy to try to help you if you picked it up in a crime trace. The thing is, given the present state of affairs, it would probably be best if you communicated with me through my lawyer. Drop me an email at GeorgeMason1776ATaol.com and I will forward you that information.

Mike Vanderboegh

PS: It wasn't a Fast and Furious weapon, was it? ;-)

5 comments:

SWIFT said...: Mike, good show and Good on You! I'm always happy when someone pushes back and does so up front. The jack-booted thugs need to know that intimidation only works on the weak and unprincipled. I hope everyone takes note of how these scum operate; behind the scenes scurrying around like cockroaches. No honor in that; only a paycheck!

On another note, this new system for verifying were not robots is hard on old folks who do not see as well anymore.; February 21, 2012 at 5:45 PM
drjim said...: They probably got a serial number wrong, and it's pointing back to you!; February 21, 2012 at 11:42 PM
Anonymous said...: What SWIFT said (about us old folks ;-) as well as his other comment.

The biggest problem I see with the issue at hand is that IF your firearm gets rated as 'suspicious' (or some such nebulous term) - it would probably be subject to seizure - ya know, just to confirm its status. Of course you will probably never see it again if that happens...............; February 22, 2012 at 8:55 AM
AJ said...: One of my buds and I love to play "Make the Agent" at the gunshows. I'm not going to divulge our secrets for "making" a fed, but I will say that for being college educated and highly trained, you would have to be a retard to get busted by one of them at a show.; February 22, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Ned said...: Years ago I received an email regarding the fact that BATF was investigating everyone within a period of time who purchased a new Mossberg shotgun.

I'm not sure how many 28" 835 Ultimag shotguns had been used in crimes, but my guess is very few.

Sometimes functionaries need something to do to justify their paychecks.; February 22, 2012 at 12:05 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.

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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