Is the ATF really this stupid?

[emptybrass]

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=368769

You gotta be kidding me.

[SONYtec]

I better hit up the store, before word gets to the masses.

[MP_OHIO]

Put down the Chore Boy and back away from the weaponry!"

It's an order that actually could be heard, given that a letter has surfaced from the federal government warning against consumers stockpiling Chore Boy household scrubbers because they can be considered a component of a gun silencer and, therefore, regulated by federal gun laws.

The letter is from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the ATF. It was obtained by David Codrea, who publishes online as the Gun Rights Examiner.

And it comes from a federal agency that earlier determined a 14-inch-long piece of shoestring must be regulated under federal gun laws and restrictions because it is a "machinegun."

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The latest unusual determination from the agency is found in a letter submitted to the agency on behalf of a client. The letter is dated Nov. 26, 2010, and Codrea said it was obtained recently.

In it, an attorney was asking about a repair that a client wished to make on an already-registered silencer for a .22 caliber rifle.

"Does sound/gas absorbing materials manufactured from Chore Boy copper clean pads, along with fiberglass insulation, constitute a silencer part as defined in 18 U.S.C 921(a)(24)?" he asked.

"Yes," confirmed the letter signed by John R. Spencer, the chief of the Firearms Technology Branch. "Gas/sound-absorbing material is the same as a baffle in that it is designed to reduce/trap hot gases within the expansion tube to allow cooling before they are released from the silencer, subsequently reducing sound."

Spencer, responding to a question about whether such material which becomes worn in a silencer could be replaced, said it would be a violation of federal law.

"Replacement of any component part or parts of a registered silencer, other than a silencer wipe, would be a violation of the NFA if performed by a non-licensed manufacturer," the letter said.

The correct procedure would be for the owner of the registered silencer to submit an application to the ATF and pay a $200 tax, the letter said.

"Further, he would have to submit a 'no-marking' variance to FTB since there is no viable area in which to apply a serial number to the sound-absorbing material," Spencer wrote.

He also noted that it would not be lawful for the owner of the registered silencer to "have a stockpile of sound-absorbing materials for his own use in replacing deteriorated sound-absorbing material."



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[jhs27275]

The correct procedure would be for the owner of the registered silencer to submit an application to the ATF and pay a $200 tax, the letter said.

The only time you'd need to pay the tax again is if the tube was damaged beyond repair and had to be replaced.

He needs to review his own rules and regs.

Gemtax anyone.

[SONYtec]

He needs to review his own rules and regs.

He just changed them, from his letter.

[jathtech]

thats almost as bad as the FBI running around and asking gun store owners if they sell "night time flashlights". Who the hell uses them in the day time?

[jhs27275]

He just changed them, from his letter.

Still not even close to what they have told all the SOT's.

[GULL]

In the dark of night, deep in the bowels of a hidden room in his basement, Joe Sixpack refreshes his suppressor in violation of BATF interpretation of their rules. Suddenly, his freedom is taken as black hooded agents burst through the ........ Yada Yada Yada.

[TAFFY003]

In the dark of night, deep in the bowels of a hidden room in his basement, Joe Sixpack refreshes his suppressor in violation of BATF interpretation of their rules. Suddenly, his freedom is taken as black hooded agents burst through the ........ Yada Yada Yada.

Joe's family is later arrested for having illegal machine guns on their shoes.

[emptybrass]

thats almost as bad as the FBI running around and asking gun store owners if they sell "night time flashlights". Who the hell uses them in the day time?

Those are in the isle with left handed ink pens