We have been getting comments defending Scott-Dani Pappalardo when he made an illegal Short Barrel Rifle because of feeling. The gist of the complains is that what should count is the intention he had and not what he did, Mens Rea and all that.
First, good news: It is the consensus among the Gun Right side that he will skate on the charges. ATF will rather set fire to their headquarters building that catch another round of bad press. Hell, they allowed a Gun Smuggler loaded with over a 150 counts of trafficking guns to New York City get only six month, so nailing a white guy from Liberal Suburbia speaking for Gun Control will not be touched even if he was pumping the neighbor’s four-year old daughter.

WARNING: I am not a lawyer nor I am an expert on the National Firearms Act so what you read below this are just my thought and poor knowledge. I am pretty sure I am not far off base, but my readers with FFLs and experience will correct me as they always do.

Now, to Stupid Federal Laws. Make no mistake. What Scott-Dani Pappalardo did was breaking part of Title 26 of the US code and ATF regulations. You can look them up. Now, that you know cutting the barrel under 16 inches (under 18 for shotguns, why? Nobody knows) is against the law, you should be asking yourself how does one legally destroy a firearm and the first thing you need to know is what constitutes a firearm, are you ready for this? You know that gun has different parts, right. The part with the serial number is the gun and that is usually the receiver. Here is a picture to illustrate the point.

The yellow circles indicate the recover of Pappalardo’s AR. On the top right photo, you can clearly see the barrel cut and the receiver intact: National Firearms Act laws have been broken. Apparently he either read the comments in YouTube or somebody told him he had screwed up by the numbers that he shared with the world the picture on the bottom with the proper receiver cut.

And here is a picture of an AR showing the serial number in the receiver so you can get an idea what have we been talking about:

OK, the next part is gonna be more gun laws fun: This is NOT a firearm.

And this ain’t either:

Did you notice that in both examples the barrels are intact? Still, not a firearm because those rifles had their receivers either torched or cut in a manner that could not be repaired. According to the law and ATF regulations, you are looking at AK-47 parts kit. And it is 100 percent legal.

Here is a better look at what is the normal AK receiver compared to the cut one:

BTW, those kit parts are legal to sell without a background check… because they are not firearms! You were used to get the kit for around $100-$120, but they have gone up a lot. All original matching parts are running past the $600 mark in Gunbroker.com.

I imagine your head is spinning a bit by now. And that is only two laws of the approximately 20,000 gun laws in our country, most of them as stupid as this one.

So, dear Liberal friends, when you come screaming at us demanding one more gun law, we react strongly against it because we are plum tired of stupid laws that obviously have either not been working or the government cannot possibly enforce on the bad guys.

If you have a leak in your house, you call a plumber.
If your car is not running right, you take it to a mechanic.
If you are hungry and don’t cook, you go to a restaurant.
If you feel sick, you go to a doctor.
But somehow if you want to know about guns and gun laws, we Gun People don’t know shit and are to be ignored even though we live in that world every single day.

Does that make sense to you?

McThag left a good comment on the bad post, my fault.  I am placing it here:

Rifles are were originally 18″ as well, but Congress changed it to 16″ for rimfires because there were already lots and lots of them out there. Too many to expect the public to just accept the new law. Centerfire was amended in the early sixties purportedly to allow the M1 carbine to be legal.

Saw cutting the receiver in one place doesn’t make it a non-gun.

It must be TORCH cut in three places. So he’s still got an SBR on his hands.

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A friend in Facebook pointed out the Redneck Pooch driving a pick up truck. The canine was not wearing a seatbelt against the laws of the State of Florida and we could not tell if there was a gun rack and NRA stickers on the rear window.

Broward Sheriff Scott Israel is alleged to have his best investigators trying to find the Moving Violator Dog and bring it to justice even if it takes 39 calls.

We’ll keep you posted.

Hat Tip Gary G.

SAN FRANCISCO — One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking up the gun control debate.
The accounts addressed the news with the speed of a cable news network. Some adopted the hashtag #guncontrolnow. Others used #gunreformnow and #Parklandshooting. Earlier on Wednesday, before the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., many of those accounts had been focused on the investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

After Florida School Shooting, Russian ‘Bot’ Army Pounced

So the Russians are Colluding with Shannon Watts, Michael Bloomberg, Gabby Giffords and the Brady Campaign?

We need an Independent Counsel to be empowered to investigate all of them as soon as possible! We cannot allow the meddling of Russians in our internal affairs and those who colluded with them must go to prison!

/sarcasm off}

Hat Tip Josh A.

According to John Ross (Unintended Consequences) this rant belongs to Michael Bane and it is damned good.

“The guiding principle of American law enforcement is that it is easiest to enforce the law on law-abiding people, while enforcing the law on outlaws is something that looks terrifyingly close to hard work.

Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, a Democrat (color me surprised) tries to grandstand by asking the  NRA not to have the Annual Meeting in his city

“It is a tough call when you ask the NRA to reconsider coming to Dallas. But it is putting all citizens first and getting them to come to the table and elected officials to come to the table and to address this madness now,” said Caraway.

Dallas Mayor Pro Tem urges NRA to find a new home for their convention

 

You gotta love the stupid. Not only to deny his city with the great income that the NRA AM brings but also the descent in crime for that weekend. Democrat politicians apparently have not figured out what the common criminal has: There is no reward in going to screw with a bunch of armed people who know how to shoot.

I hate when a piece of information that I know I have decides not to ring its bell in my brain.  The good news is that somebody not only did remember but has made a full on investigation:

Broward County schools intentionally created polices from 2010 through 2016 that culminated in the 2018 mass school shooting in Parkland. We know this with great specificity because five years ago we warned Broward County Florida school board members this could happen.
In 2012 and 2013 while doing research into the Trayvon Martin shooting we discovered an alarming set of school policies being enacted in Miami-Dade and Broward County Florida. The policies were called “diversionary programs” and were essentially about stopping High School students from being arrested. Law enforcement was instructed to avoid arrests and defer criminal conduct to school administrators.
Students who engaged in violence, drug sales, robberies, burglaries, theft and other various crimes were intentionally kept out of the criminal justice system. County administrators and School Superintendents told local and county law enforcement officers to stop arresting students.

School Shooting Was Outcome of Broward County School Board Policy – Now Local and National Politicians Weaponize Kids for Ideological Intents…

Fixing the stats to look good.  Go read the whole article, it is frightfully illuminating.