#alcohol tobacco and firearms

[jacksproject2025]

Kash Patel sworn in as Director of the FBI by Attorney General Pam Bondi

[spider-mand]

One of my favorite examples of "Deadpool's not actually an idiot."

Context: In this issue, Deadpool takes down a corrupt police department in very rural Georgia. Rather than kill 'em all (as suggested by the cops' mastermind), he invites the Feds to catch them all red-handed at their illegal moonshine distillery. Initially, he's cuffed and detained along with everyone else.

His little interaction with the ATF agents at the end is fantastic.

Love it. It's like...summary of my favorite version of Deadpool. He's heroic, he does good things, he doesn't kill anyone in this issue - but he's also dangerous, his good intentions don't erase his bad habits or volatile nature. He definitely wanted to kill the whole lot of 'em (in fairness, one of theirs killed him first, that's why he got involved) and had to dial it back to "wait, I don't do that anymore."

Plus - smart enough to turn his bad reputation into an advantage, sometimes. He probably wouldn't have hurt those agents (not on purpose), but they don't need to know that...

IDK I just love this sequence. :)

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Déjà Vu (2006, Tony Scott)

26/11/2024

[roughridingrednecks]

Firearms Tobacco Alcohol

[sixbucks]

March Madness day 27

I call this combo ATF.

[bassiter2]

customer who is also a friend of my boss was wearing a shirt that said 'ATF IS GAY' and I asked him what it meant and I stg he started sweating

[youthchronical]

Man Who Shot at Pipeline and Power Station Gets 25 Years in Prison

A Canadian man who, in an attempt to raise awareness about climate change, used a high-powered rifle to fire shots at a pipeline in South Dakota in 2022 and a power station in North Dakota in 2023 was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in federal prison. The man, Cameron M. Smith, 50, who pleaded guilty last September in U.S. District Court in Bismarck, N.D., to two counts of destruction of an…

[sergeant-macho-nacho]

I believe Ive said before that there is no law that the United States government wont kill to enforce

From owning firearms to making Alcohol

The Federal governments stance on Tobacco is it will kill you

So if you possess Tobacco they will kill you

[diablo1776]

He probably can't define a woman, etheir, sooo....

[diablo1776]

[filosofablogger]

SCOTUS Screwed Up ... AGAIN!

Okay, so you’ve heard a lot of rumbling this week about ‘bump stocks’ and the Supreme Court decision killing the ban on them.  Let’s take a deeper look … First off, what exactly is a ‘bump stock’?  It is a device that can be attached to a semiautomatic firearm in place of a conventional gunstock, enabling it to fire bullets more rapidly.  Essentially, bump stocks assist rapid fire by “bumping”…

[masterofd1saster]

CJ court watch - the bumpstock case

SCt decided Garland v. Cargill, 602 U. S. __ (2024) today. The decision was 6-3 and broke along familiar ideological lines.

The issue was the definition of machine gun and whether ATF could redefine semiautomatic rifles to be machine guns on its own initiative.

Congress has long restricted access to “‘machinegun[s],’” a category of firearms defined by the ability to “shoot, automatically more than one shot . . . by a single function of the trigger.” 26 U. S. C. §5845(b); see also 18 U. S. C. §922(o). Semiautomatic firearms, which require shooters to reengage the trigger for every shot, are not machineguns. This case asks whether a bump stock—an accessory for a semiautomatic rifle that allows the shooter to rapidly reengage the trigger (and therefore achieve a high rate of fire)—converts the rifle into a “machinegun.” We hold that it does not and therefore affirm.*** For many years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) took the position that semiautomatic rifles equipped with bump stocks were not machineguns under the statute. On more than 10 separate occasions over several administrations, ATF consistently concluded that rifles equipped with bump stocks cannot “automatically” fire more than one shot “by a single function of the trigger.”*** ATF abruptly reversed course in response to a mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. In October 2017, a gunman fired on a crowd attending an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and wounding over 500 more. The gunman equipped his weapons with bump stocks, which allowed him to fire hundreds of rounds in a matter of minutes.*** ATF’s aboutface drew criticism from some observers, including those who agreed that bump stocks should be banned. Senator Dianne Feinstein, for example, warned that ATF lacked statutory authority to prohibit bump stocks, explaining that the proposed regulation “‘hinge[d] on a dubious analysis’” and that the “‘gun lobby and manufacturers [would] have a field day with [ATF’s] reasoning’” in court. Statement on Regulation To Ban Bump Stocks (Mar. 23, 2018). She asserted that “‘legislation is the only way to ban bump stocks.’” Ibid. ATF issued its final Rule in 2018. 83 Fed. Reg. 66514***

There was basically no way of getting around Congress's definition that "machine gun" means a single trigger action results in more than one round discharged. Bump stocks don't change the weapon or the firing mechanism, they just make it easier/faster to operate the trigger.

[cun1ymclean]

the BEST store lets go guys lets go 

[yokowan]

agents from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms coming to knock down my door on entirely separate cases and bumping into each other in a romcom style meet cute

[dosesofcommonsense]

Sounds like a department on the DOGE chopping block.

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

**We have laws (& 3 amendments) and police. Why do we need the ATF, who also makes separate unofficial/not real laws to legislate against the citizens?