All About Pocket Knives

Subtitle: If gun control is gaining steam in Congress, chances are Sen. John Cornyn is nearby, working on a ‘compromise’ with Democrats.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is the first to announce his campaign to replace Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the Senate’s Republican leader. The race for leadership will expose a weakness of Cornyn — his lack of support for Americans’ right to self-defense. “Every time gun control gains steam in Congress, Senator John Cornyn is right there working with Democrats on a ‘compromise,’” says Aidan Johnston with Gun Owners Of America. Unfortunately, Johnston is correct.
Cornyn sponsored the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) and was responsible for negotiating the deal with Senate Democrats. “More than any other senator, Cornyn is responsible for shepherding the landmark legislation through a chamber,” as The Texas Tribune described it. Cornyn was reportedly motivated by the desire to prevent another Uvalde school massacre. However, the final bill turned out to be nothing short of a disaster, and the changes in background checks would do nothing to stop that attack.
Soon after the BSCA passed, Texas Republicans understood what the law’s ramifications meant and vigorously booed Cornyn during his speech at the state party convention.
The bill allowed the Biden administration to push rules that would forbid federal funding for schools that have hunting or archery classes. Fortunately, when that became clear, Congress voted overwhelmingly to undo that part of the BSCA.
But more damaging are the law’s provisions allowing Biden to impose the Democrats’ long-desired wish list on background checks on all private transfers and sales for guns, something that will help them put together a more complete national gun registry of law-abiding Americans.
Although federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) published a 108-page proposal at the end of August that would allow the Biden administration to use the bill to require universal background checks on all gun transfers and to track virtually everyone who obtains a gun. To make things even worse, ATF whistleblowers leaked that the proposal had grown to 1,300 pages a month ago.
By early 2021, the ATF created a digital database containing almost a billion firearm transactions. To fill in the blanks, Biden pressured credit card companies to track firearm purchases. The Bank of America has already given customers’ gun purchase data to the FBI without a warrant or probable cause.
Biden used the BSCA to make a tiny, seemingly trivial change in existing law. The federal government previously classified people as “gun dealers,” requiring them to get a license if they sold guns “with the principal objective of livelihood and profit.” The language in the BSCA reads: “predominantly earn a profit.”
The initial proposal put out by the Biden administration classifies you as a gun dealer if you sell a friend a gun once and discuss with them the sale of a second gun. Other rules cover you if you sell one gun and keep any record of what you bought and sold it for. The list goes on, and the leakers say the new regulations are much more extensive and will effectively ban gun sales since all purchasers will have to become licensed gun dealers or go to licensed dealers. It is all part of the Biden administration’s plan to complete its national gun registry.
While Biden is redefining everyone as a firearms dealer, Cornyn knew that Biden’s zero-tolerance policy for paperwork typos was putting thousands of dealers out of business.
Take the case of Tom Harris, who owns the Sporting Arms Co. in Lewisville, Texas, a disabled father of five who made a couple of small paperwork mistakes 16 and 17 years ago. Even the ATF under President Barack Obama cleared Harris, and he has made no mistakes since then. But the Biden administration reopened these old closed cases.
When Biden sold his zero-tolerance policy by claiming: “If you willfully sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with the tracing requests or inspections, my message to you is this: We’ll find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns.” Harris and others are not purposefully selling guns to criminals, but the government is coming for their licenses anyway.
The Biden administration pushes universal background checks and a gun registry as needed to solve crime. The new ATF rules focus on tracing guns used in crimes. In theory, if a criminal leaves a gun at a crime scene, police can trace the gun back to him. But outside of television crime shows, things don’t work that way.
Registration is useful for one purpose: confiscating guns. Australia, Canada, and the U.K. aren’t the only places using registration to ban and confiscate guns. California, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., also used registration to know who legally owned certain types of guns before banning them, and Biden continues to call for a ban on all semi-automatic guns.
The ATF has been having a rough time recently in the courts with its attempts to redefine terms already well-defined in the law. But thanks to Cornyn, the BSCA got around those obstacles and opened the door to a Democrat wish list of new gun-control regulations that will endanger lives.
John R. Lott, Jr., “If You Like The Second Amendment, You Don’t Want John Cornyn Anywhere Near Senate Leadership,” The Federalist, March 7, 2024.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:23 pm

zp4ja wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:32 pm Awesome post John!

. . . Personally, when Clint passes, will be a sad day for me. . .

Jerry

I don't even want to think about it...

Ray

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:15 am Important read

Subtitle: If gun control is gaining steam in Congress, chances are Sen. John Cornyn is nearby, working on a ‘compromise’ with Democrats.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is the first to announce his campaign to replace Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the Senate’s Republican leader. The race for leadership will expose a weakness of Cornyn — his lack of support for Americans’ right to self-defense. “Every time gun control gains steam in Congress, Senator John Cornyn is right there working with Democrats on a ‘compromise,’” says Aidan Johnston with Gun Owners Of America. Unfortunately, Johnston is correct.
Cornyn sponsored the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) and was responsible for negotiating the deal with Senate Democrats. “More than any other senator, Cornyn is responsible for shepherding the landmark legislation through a chamber,” as The Texas Tribune described it. Cornyn was reportedly motivated by the desire to prevent another Uvalde school massacre. However, the final bill turned out to be nothing short of a disaster, and the changes in background checks would do nothing to stop that attack.
Soon after the BSCA passed, Texas Republicans understood what the law’s ramifications meant and vigorously booed Cornyn during his speech at the state party convention.
The bill allowed the Biden administration to push rules that would forbid federal funding for schools that have hunting or archery classes. Fortunately, when that became clear, Congress voted overwhelmingly to undo that part of the BSCA.
But more damaging are the law’s provisions allowing Biden to impose the Democrats’ long-desired wish list on background checks on all private transfers and sales for guns, something that will help them put together a more complete national gun registry of law-abiding Americans.
Although federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) published a 108-page proposal at the end of August that would allow the Biden administration to use the bill to require universal background checks on all gun transfers and to track virtually everyone who obtains a gun. To make things even worse, ATF whistleblowers leaked that the proposal had grown to 1,300 pages a month ago.
By early 2021, the ATF created a digital database containing almost a billion firearm transactions. To fill in the blanks, Biden pressured credit card companies to track firearm purchases. The Bank of America has already given customers’ gun purchase data to the FBI without a warrant or probable cause.
Biden used the BSCA to make a tiny, seemingly trivial change in existing law. The federal government previously classified people as “gun dealers,” requiring them to get a license if they sold guns “with the principal objective of livelihood and profit.” The language in the BSCA reads: “predominantly earn a profit.”
The initial proposal put out by the Biden administration classifies you as a gun dealer if you sell a friend a gun once and discuss with them the sale of a second gun. Other rules cover you if you sell one gun and keep any record of what you bought and sold it for. The list goes on, and the leakers say the new regulations are much more extensive and will effectively ban gun sales since all purchasers will have to become licensed gun dealers or go to licensed dealers. It is all part of the Biden administration’s plan to complete its national gun registry.
While Biden is redefining everyone as a firearms dealer, Cornyn knew that Biden’s zero-tolerance policy for paperwork typos was putting thousands of dealers out of business.
Take the case of Tom Harris, who owns the Sporting Arms Co. in Lewisville, Texas, a disabled father of five who made a couple of small paperwork mistakes 16 and 17 years ago. Even the ATF under President Barack Obama cleared Harris, and he has made no mistakes since then. But the Biden administration reopened these old closed cases.
When Biden sold his zero-tolerance policy by claiming: “If you willfully sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with the tracing requests or inspections, my message to you is this: We’ll find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns.” Harris and others are not purposefully selling guns to criminals, but the government is coming for their licenses anyway.
The Biden administration pushes universal background checks and a gun registry as needed to solve crime. The new ATF rules focus on tracing guns used in crimes. In theory, if a criminal leaves a gun at a crime scene, police can trace the gun back to him. But outside of television crime shows, things don’t work that way.
Registration is useful for one purpose: confiscating guns. Australia, Canada, and the U.K. aren’t the only places using registration to ban and confiscate guns. California, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., also used registration to know who legally owned certain types of guns before banning them, and Biden continues to call for a ban on all semi-automatic guns.
The ATF has been having a rough time recently in the courts with its attempts to redefine terms already well-defined in the law. But thanks to Cornyn, the BSCA got around those obstacles and opened the door to a Democrat wish list of new gun-control regulations that will endanger lives.
John R. Lott, Jr., “If You Like The Second Amendment, You Don’t Want John Cornyn Anywhere Near Senate Leadership,” The Federalist, March 7, 2024.

Boji wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:17 am The various news sources I read stated that Malinowski fired shots at the ATF agents first. Why wouldn’t the agents return fire? What were they supposed to do? I doubt saying, Please don’t shoot at us would have done anything.

bestgear wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:35 am You break a civil law and you lose your civil rights - this was not an ordinary citizen when 6 of the weapons that he sold were used in the commission of a crime. Sad how it came down but IMO this was not killing a citizen who chose to follow the constitutional rights to bear and keep arms.

Thomasg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:42 pm… until I see proof he done so intentionally for profit I will consider him a victim of over zealous AT..F. agents who should be charged with man manslaughter !

bestgear wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:52 pm

Thomasg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:42 pm… until I see proof he done so intentionally for profit I will consider him a victim of over zealous AT..F. agents who should be charged with man manslaughter !

fair enough - I respect due process as well - I’m sure the gun sale purchases that were made by undercover ATF agents will be portrayed as “a setup” - of course he did it for profit and as a high income earner already, I’m sure he had a huge bullseye on his back by the ATF.

Sadly (as Boji who holds an FFL will attest), the ATF doesn’t have enough resources to chase every paperwork infraction but instead focus their resources where it will make the biggest impact on public safety. I’m afraid Mr. Malinowski fit that profile and his defense led to his demise.

Thomasg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:16 pm

Boji wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:17 am The various news sources I read stated that Malinowski fired shots at the ATF agents first. Why wouldn’t the agents return fire? What were they supposed to do? I doubt saying, Please don’t shoot at us would have done anything.

Do you own a gun ? If you do and the door to your house was smashed in before daylight and your home was invade by masked men armed with an A15 in full body armor un announced what would be your reaction? Bryan had every right to defend his life and property from what he most likely thought was a home invasion and robbery .If had been a drug dealing thug , gangster , or gun runner I would have no sympathy .But he was a well respected member of his community who will never have an opportunity to defend his self of alleged crimes in a court of law .

Boji wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:07 pm

Thomasg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:16 pm

Boji wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:17 am The various news sources I read stated that Malinowski fired shots at the ATF agents first. Why wouldn’t the agents return fire? What were they supposed to do? I doubt saying, Please don’t shoot at us would have done anything.

Do you own a gun ? If you do and the door to your house was smashed in before daylight and your home was invade by masked men armed with an A15 in full body armor un announced what would be your reaction? Bryan had every right to defend his life and property from what he most likely thought was a home invasion and robbery .If had been a drug dealing thug , gangster , or gun runner I would have no sympathy .But he was a well respected member of his community who will never have an opportunity to defend his self of alleged crimes in a court of law .

Please show me a reputable news source that states that the ATF “smashed down the door, etc” as you stated.
Seems you know this fellow, did you buy a gun from him and are paranoid that the ATF will be coming to you ?

Thomasg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:42 pm

bestgear wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:35 am You break a civil law and you lose your civil rights - this was not an ordinary citizen when 6 of the weapons that he sold were used in the commission of a crime. Sad how it came down but IMO this was not killing a citizen who chose to follow the constitutional rights to bear and keep arms.

He was a well respected member of his community who went to work everyday to a job with a salary of 1/4 million $ per year who happened to like and collect guns and coins . With no prior criminal offenses or record .sure he may or may not followed the correct government regulations while pursuing his hobby and allegedly sold a gun to a criminal unintentionally , until I see proof he done so intentionally for profit I will consider him a victim of over zealous AT..F. agents who should be charged with man manslaughter !

Biden used the BSCA to make a tiny, seemingly trivial change in existing law. The federal government previously classified people as “gun dealers,” requiring them to get a license if they sold guns “with the principal objective of livelihood and profit.” The language in the BSCA reads: “predominantly earn a profit.”
The initial proposal put out by the Biden administration classifies you as a gun dealer if you sell a friend a gun once and discuss with them the sale of a second gun. Other rules cover you if you sell one gun and keep any record of what you bought and sold it for.

While Biden is redefining everyone as a firearms dealer, Cornyn knew that Biden’s zero-tolerance policy for paperwork typos was putting thousands of dealers out of business.
Take the case of Tom Harris, who owns the Sporting Arms Co. in Lewisville, Texas, a disabled father of five who made a couple of small paperwork mistakes 16 and 17 years ago. Even the ATF under President Barack Obama cleared Harris, and he has made no mistakes since then. But the Biden administration reopened these old closed cases.
When Biden sold his zero-tolerance policy by claiming: “If you willfully sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with the tracing requests or inspections, my message to you is this: We’ll find you, and we will seek your license to sell guns.” Harris and others are not purposefully selling guns to criminals, but the government is coming for their licenses anyway.

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:35 am I can only conclude that those rushing to defense of the ATF in this instance have not bothered to read the post above, which explains the uber-aggressive (my interpretation) actions advocated and executed by the current administration with regard to gun-sales transactions by both individuals and FFL holders.

While Biden is redefining everyone as a firearms dealer, Cornyn knew that Biden’s zero-tolerance policy for paperwork typos was putting thousands of dealers out of business..

The agenda of the current administration is confiscation of forearms from citizens, and putting the firearms industry out of business. Period. The fact is the feds do not follow up on and prosecute those who either lie on or fail to pass their background check application to purchase a firearm. Yet they are trying to shut down FFLs for typo errors on the application.

Arguing and speculating the details of any one particular instance ignores and obfuscates the bigger issue.

Ken

Boji wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:07 pm

Thomasg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:16 pm

Boji wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:17 am The various news sources I read stated that Malinowski fired shots at the ATF agents first. Why wouldn’t the agents return fire? What were they supposed to do? I doubt saying, Please don’t shoot at us would have done anything.

Do you own a gun ? If you do and the door to your house was smashed in before daylight and your home was invade by masked men armed with an A15 in full body armor un announced what would be your reaction? Bryan had every right to defend his life and property from what he most likely thought was a home invasion and robbery .If had been a drug dealing thug , gangster , or gun runner I would have no sympathy .But he was a well respected member of his community who will never have an opportunity to defend his self of alleged crimes in a court of law .

Please show me a reputable news source that states that the ATF “smashed down the door, etc” as you stated.
Seems you know this fellow, did you buy a gun from him and are paranoid that the ATF will be coming to you ?

Boji wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:12 am

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:35 am I can only conclude that those rushing to defense of the ATF in this instance have not bothered to read the post above, which explains the uber-aggressive (my interpretation) actions advocated and executed by the current administration with regard to gun-sales transactions by both individuals and FFL holders.

While Biden is redefining everyone as a firearms dealer, Cornyn knew that Biden’s zero-tolerance policy for paperwork typos was putting thousands of dealers out of business..

The agenda of the current administration is confiscation of forearms from citizens, and putting the firearms industry out of business. Period. The fact is the feds do not follow up on and prosecute those who either lie on or fail to pass their background check application to purchase a firearm. Yet they are trying to shut down FFLs for typo errors on the application.

Arguing and speculating the details of any one particular instance ignores and obfuscates the bigger issue.

Ken

FFL license revocations for the past 6 months:
September 2023 14
October 2023 20
November 2023 15
December 2023 10
January 2024 20
February 2024 23
Where are the "thousands" you speak of?

As an FFL holder for 33 years and constantly "keeping my ear to the ground" I have wasted enough time on the overall topic.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has a great deal of information on their website.
Also, on YouTube, FFL Consultants does a monthly update on what's up with the ATF and FFLs.

bestgear wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:59 pm The first good news is that at the end of the day, WE ARE ALL 2A STRONG The second good news is that the dialogue here has been civil and well debated