On April 12, 2014, from 2pm to 5pm, approximately 100 people rallied in Carlsbad, CA, on the corner of El Camino Real and Faraday, to protest the BATFE raid and confiscating computer files and client lists from ARES ARMOR.
Going against a court order, the BATFE went to a gun control friendly judge. The ATF got what they wanted. Their customer list.
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The United States District Court, Southern California District granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives to stay a planned raid on an Oceanside gun parts supplier and seizing of its inventory and customer records. The planned action was due to the company providing the public with heretofore legal so-called “80 percent lower receivers,” unfinished gun parts that must be further processed by the purchasers in order to result in a legally-defined “firearm.”
The planned raid on Ares is part of an investigation that resulted in a raid on the receiver manufacturer, EP Armory, a story reported Monday by St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Kurt Hofmann.
The order is the result of a motion filed Tuesday by Ares Armor for a temporary injunction, directly naming ATF Director B. Todd Jones as a defendant “in his Official Capacity as Head of The San Diego ATF Field Office,” citing that “Ares Armor is likely to succeed on the merits ... The ATF’s planned seizure violates the Fourth Amendment [and] The ATF mischaracterizes ‘EP 80 percent lower receivers’ as firearms as a pretense to seize customer information,” among the reasons.
“Ares Armor has standing to sue on behalf of itself and its customers,” the motion further claims, noting “In the absence of a preliminary injunction, Ares Armor will suffer irreparable harm.
“Ares Armor is under immediate threat of having their customers’ personal information and its legal goods being seized by the ATF,” the introduction to the motion explained. “Agents from the San Diego ATF office are scheduled to arrive Wednesday March 12th , 2014 at 11:00 a.m. to demand Ares Armor hand over its customer list and turn over roughly $300,000 in inventory of EP Armory polymer 80 percent lower receivers.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing yesterday on the ATF’s numerous botched “storefront” operations (which seemed to primary serve to entrap the developmentally disabled), U.S Representative Thomas Massie (KY-4) took several minutes to grill ATF Director B. Todd Jones about the ATF raid on Ares Armor.
Ares Armor was raided by the ATF several weeks ago on the premise that they were selling EP Armory parts that constituted firearms in the eyes of the ATF. All EP Armory parts were taken in the raid, but the ATF seemed even more intent on acquiring Ares Armor’s customer data, in order to build a de facto gun registry of arms that would otherwise be non-registered legally.
It gets very interesting when Massie asks Jones to promise to destroy any copies of customer data obtained by the ATF if a court determines that Ares Armor broke no laws.
I suspect that we’ll be watching yet another House Oversight Committee hearing on ATF abuses before this is all over.
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How much of this 'tie their hands behind the backs' gun laws did DC allow? The trouble is there are so many bleeding heart liberals living in Washington.
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These are only the beginning of the harsh and misguided obstacles that DC residents must overcome before they are allowed to express their fundamental right to self-defense. Other problems with Bill 20-930 include: •Issuance of a license to carry a pistol is “may-issue,” and requires that the applicant “has good reason to fear injury to his or her person or property or has any other proper reason to carry a pistol...” Such reason must be supported by evidence of specific threats or previous violent attacks which, for many, could be too late. •Applicants must complete a firearms training course from an approved instructor which consists of a minimum of 16 hours of training (including two hours of live-fire instruction). •Currently, no shooting ranges exist in DC that are open to the public. This will make it costly and difficult, if not impossible, for most DC residents to complete the training requirements, especially low income residents. •Applicants must complete an in-person interview at the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters and “follow any procedures the Chief may establish by rule.” •The MPD would have the authority to “limit the geographic area, circumstances or times of the day, week, month or year in which the license is effective.” •Even with a license, carrying is prohibited in government buildings, adjacent parking lots, public transportation, public gatherings and the area around the White House -- in effect, much of Northwest DC. Along with these limitations, no carrying is allowed within 1,000 feet of a dignitary or high ranking official of the United States or a state, local or foreign government official who is under protection of the MPD. These officials typically move in escorts and would be a rolling gun-free zone with strict penalties for those licensees unknowingly caught in the zone. •The Chief of the MPD is further granted authority to create regulations governing the carrying of concealed pistols. This bill prompts the creation of regulations regarding the amount of ammunition a licensee can carry and methods by which a pistol may be carried concealed.
Given the numerous and unprecedented hurdles to acquiring a license to carry under this bill, the fact that MPD would have essentially unfettered discretion in deciding whether or not to issue a license, and that so much of the District would remain off limits to carry even to a licensee, the city council has shown that its real intent with this bill is to continue the status quo of denying law-abiding citizens their right to bear arms within the District.
I've often wondered what part of "shall not be infringed" don't liberals understand?
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Today, B. Todd Jones resigned as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), ending what has been a tumultuous tenure as the agency head since July 2013.
Jones’s resignation comes at a time when BATFE is the target of a major backlash over the agency’s proposed change in federal regulations that would have banned certain types of 5.56-caliber ammunition, including popular M855 ammunition. Since the ban was announced, BATFE received more than 300,000 public comments concerning the proposal, with House and Senate majorities also sending joint letters to Jones opposing the ban. The overwhelming response prompted BATFE to table the proposal.
However, rather than disown the proposed ban outright, on March 12, Jones reiterated BATFE’s concerns about M855-type ammunition to lawmakers. During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Jones stated, “But as we see more and more of the firearms that could be classified as pistols, being able to use not just this M855 round, but any 5.56 round, it's a challenge for officer safety, public safety.”
It is too early to say with any certainty that the ongoing furor over BATFE’s proposed ammunition ban played any role in Jones’s resignation, but we can be sure that the public and Congressional outcry didn’t help the embattled Director. BATFE has announced that following Jones’s departure, Deputy Director Thomas E. Barton will assume the role of Acting Director.
We've probably never had another ATF director who has done more damage to the good citizen's Second Amendment rights than B Jones.
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Remember boys and girls,
We've probably never had another ATF director who has done more damage to the good citizen's Second Amendment rights than B Jones.
