High-Ranking ATF Official Proposes De-Regulation of Suppressors, Allow M1 Garand Imports

 

The Washington Post recently obtained an 11-page “white paper” written by the second-highest-ranking official at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that proposes 15 policy changes, including the deregulation of suppressors and firearm imports, and a clarification of the infamous “arm-brace” rule.

The author, ATF Associate Deputy Director Roland Turk, published the paper “to provide the new Administration and the Bureau multiple options… to reduce or modify [firearm] regulations.”

Taken as a whole, the list focuses on reducing paperwork, streamlining regulations, saving taxpayer dollars, and clarifying policies.

But gun enthusiasts are most excited about several of Turk’s individual proposals.

More @ Guns America

Executive Order Signed By Trump Will Take Aim At MS-13

Via Billy

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that targets transnational criminal organizations such as drug cartels and street gangs like MS-13, which is directed by its leaders in El Salvador.

An affidavit from an FBI special agent last year highlighted the transnational nature of MS-13.

“MS-13’s primary functioning principles center on violence, including murder, and a strict military structure of communication and command, headquartered in El Salvador and spread throughout various ‘programs’ and ‘cliques’ in the United States,” FBI special agent Jeffery Wood wrote.

The gang, known for its brutal violence, has been recruiting young illegal immigrants in the U.S. from the Salvadorian community. Lou Gentile, a former officer with the organized crime unit of the Pennsylvania State Police, told Fox Latino that MS-13 “functions like all immigrant organized crime groups,” and targets “their own community.”

More @ The Daily Caller

Trump pulls up Congress' approval, highest since 2009

Via Billy

President Trump's agenda, which is winning public support, is doing wonders for congressional approval ratings, now at the highest level since Barack Obama was in his first year in office.

A new Gallup survey revealed a one-month 12 point surge to 28 percent and a massive 50-point approval rating among Republicans apparently satisfied with House and Senate efforts to back up the president.

More @ Washington Examiner

Over 200 Inauguration Day Rioters Indicted: Face fines up to $25K and maximum 10 years in prison.

Via Billy

Radically anti-American protesters who took to the streets on the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration were told they’d be in big trouble.

Many were looking at $25,000 fines and up to 10 years in prison.

Today, over 200 protesters have been indicted.

From Daily Wire:

NBC News has reported that 209 people have thus far been indicted over felony rioting charges, meaning they face a fine of up to $25,000 and a maximum of 10 years in prison.

The Washington Post reported that 230 people were arrested during President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, with several cases being subsequently dismissed.

More @ Young Conservatives

Secret List of 24 Refugees Charged with Terrorism Revealed by Trump Administration

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77% of refugees allowed into U.S. since travel reprieve hail from seven suspect countries

Via Billy

The State Department has more than doubled the rate of refugees from Iraq, Syria and other suspect countries in the week since a federal judge’s reprieve, in what analysts said appears to be a push to admit as many people as possible before another court puts the program back on ice.

A staggering 77 percent of the 1,100 refugees let in since Judge James L. Robart’s Feb. 3 order have been from the seven suspect countries. Nearly a third are from Syria alone — a country that President Trump has ordered be banned altogether from the refugee program. Another 21 percent are from Iraq.
By contrast, in the two weeks before Judge Robart’s order, just 9 percent of refugees were from Syria and 6 percent were from Iraq.

“There’s no doubt in my mind they would be doing whatever they could to get people in before something changes because, from their perspective, their motivation is to resettle these folks. It would not be the first time that State Department officials have prioritized facilitating someone’s entry to the United States over security concerns,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the Center for Immigration Studies.

More @ The Washington Times

Republicans push bill to split up ‘nutty 9th Circuit’

Via Billy

 

As judges on the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals weigh the legality of President Trump’s immigration executive order, a Republican push to split up the controversial court -- and shrink its clout -- is gaining steam on Capitol Hill.

Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain of Arizona introduced legislation last month to carve six states out of the San Francisco-based court circuit and create a brand new 12th Circuit.

They argue that the 9^th is too big, too liberal and too slow resolving cases. If they succeed, only California, Oregon, Hawaii and two island districts would remain in the 9th's judicial fiefdom.

Right now, Flake said, the circuit is far too sprawling.

More @ Fox

Violence, hypocrisy and clichés: The Democratic party in 2017

Via Billy
 

Looking back on last year, the buzzwords which Democrats chose to describe Republicans seem quite polite in the hindsight of 2017.  “Misogynist, racist, and deplorable” have now given way to the less diplomatic “fascist, Nazi and KKK,” as millions on the left now live in fear that their church lady neighbor may be “#literallyHitler.”

It is a strange and divisive new world we live in, and one that is only made more complicated by the fact that most of what seems to be Trump’s most controversial positions were just recently part of a moderate Democratic party platform.  

Over the last decade, for example, building a border wall has gone from the rational stance of both Obama and Clinton to the Nazi dictum of the GOP.

In 2006, then-Senator Obama said in support of the Secure Fence Act:

More @ The Hill

Liberal Poll Shows Americans Have Supported All Of Trumps Executive Orders

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A poll that was conducted between February 2-4 by left-leaning Politico shows that Americans support all of the Executive Orders that have been signed through February 4, including the Travel ban.

The national survey polled 2,070 registered voters with a +/- margin of 2 percent.

More @ The Gateway Pundit

"The Ninth Circuit Court just created a national Constitutional Crisis"

The wording of the Constitution and the US Code is crystal clear.  Trump's immigration action is not even reviewable by a federal court, let alone subject to the judiciary or whatever opinion it may hold. This is an unwarranted and illegal intrusion and a presumption of one branch of government into the affairs of another.

Here is the pertinent law, Title 8, Chapter 12, US Code 1182, courtesy of Cornell University Law’s website:

(f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline.

Now how hard is that to understand?

Even a poor high school student would unambiguously understand this; but not simple and clear enough for liberal judges and in view of that, they have now made a mockery of their own privileged position in our society.

This is now a full blown constitutional crisis upon which may hinge whether this nation continues as a nation of laws or we devolve into a lawless nation of whims. 

My advice to my liberal friends, be very very careful of what you wish for.

~ John