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Karen Mallard is running for congress in Virginia.
She contends that she cut the receiver after so what she did was not illegal. That she won’t be arrested and prosecuted by ATF is not the same as not committing a felony crime.
The Randy Weaver Punishment Procedure only applies to non-liberals.
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
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Can felons run for congress? Lock her up. Lock her up
They can in Maryland (where Manning is running for Senate).
It would be funny if it turns out she bought this gun just to make this video.
On behalf the everyone who works with firearms for a living: no, you cannot cut the receiver AFTER you made an illegal NFA item and call it legal. The ATF doesn’t care. It could be 5 seconds later and you are still a felon for 5 seconds.
These assholes really need to go to prison.
Hopefully her opponent uses this in his ad to explain why she is so dumb.
You people are stupid, the gun clearly has no triggering mechanism in the video. She already rendered it inoperable. This game of yours of trying to criminalize the other side is pathetic.
Dear Chris:
The “triggering mechanism” AKA Trigger Group (ZOMG! Did I just Gunsplained to you?) is not what is considered the gun part by the government. The receiver which is still installed, is the gun part, the part with the serial number and was still attached to the barrel which made her cut a violation of the National Firearms Act of 1934.
Is it a stupid law? Oh yes! same as almost the 20,000 other byzantine laws regarding guns in this country and that we must navigate every time we touch a firearm.
Now do you understand why we do not want more gun laws?
Let’s assume tbe gun wasn’t inoperable (though to the naked eye it looks like it isn’t), her cut still was not a violation. Can you show me precedent where someone was prosecuted for making a similar cut while destroying a gun? I know all you armchair prosecutors think you know everything! You should look up how to convert an ar15 to an SBR, it’s a little more complicated than taking a saw to the gun.
Let’s assume tbe gun wasn’t inoperable (though to the naked eye it looks like it isn’t),
To the law, it does not matter if the gun does not gun “bang”, the receiver is still intact at the moment of the barrel cut.
” her cut still was not a violation.”
It was… although you have no idea how many gun people want the ATF to come out and say it was not. It would open the door for individuals to convert to Short Barrel Rifles without the paperwork, fingerprints tax stamp and 9 month waiting period.
“Can you show me precedent where someone was prosecuted for making a similar cut while destroying a gun?”
Nice trick question but it does not work that way. It was still a legal gun when she cut the barrel. The gun was destroyed after when the receiver was cut.
Now, if you want to find people penalized for SBR, you can check the ATF’s news releases. Google can help you.
“I know all you armchair prosecutors think you know everything! You should look up how to convert an ar15 to an SBR, it’s a little more complicated than taking a saw to the gun.”
Allow me to fix something for you: You should look up how to LEGALLY convert an ar15 to an SBR,
Now, that I know of, I have at least 2 readers with Federal licensed to manufacture firearms and maybe one that has a license for destructive devices. Readers with Type 01 which is your basic gun dealer/gunsmith? Another 2 or 3.
All are (and have to be) very knowledgeable of the law regarding the manufacture of SBR and SBS (Short barrel shotguns) and none has even dare as a joke to advance the idea that what she did was legal…because it is not. They know damned well that if they do the same thing she did, they would lose their licenses and end up in prison. They are some of the people I get my information from…. and of course, ATF website is amazing in its help.
OK, test time Chris: How many legal firearms do you see in this picture?
And to avoid issues, we are talking firearms under the legal definition according to US Law.
A receiver without a trigger group is still considered a firearm by the BATFE. You have to do a background check to purchase one from a gun store. In fact, the requirements are stricter for a receiver than for a rifle in that you have to be 21 year old or more.
Plus, even if the trigger group was taken out of the rifle, it is still a rifle so long as it has the upper receiver attached to it.
Someone who wants a job making laws should probably take a little more time to learn them first. Just sayin.
I say let’s report their sorry butts: https://www.atf.gov/contact/hotlines
If enough of us report them, maybe ATF will actually do something about these libtard criminals and they won’t be able to get a pass so easily. Maybe.
It seems that video recording yourself committing a felony is pretty stupid. Even if she cut the receiver in the required three places with that angle grinder, she still didn’t destroy it properly. I’ll bet she didn’t destroy it properly.
If only we could get someone in the BATFE to care.
There’s a bit of Freudian castration fantasies going on with the gun cutting- note how they cut off the long part first.