Trump: Banning Suppressors?

[DynamicDan]

Write him a letter.

[MaduroBU]

Does the NFA have a severability clause? Just thinking aloud.

[Beiruty]

BTW, how many bump stock were surrendered. 0.

[Lynyrd]

It looks like the Supreme Court will decide today whether or not to hear the Kansas case of Jeremy Kettler.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/0 ... 5LaSzsHiWs

Kettler failed to pay a $200 tax and file ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) paperwork to register the suppressor, which he purchased from a local Army-Navy surplus store. The owner of the store, Shane Cox, was not licensed to manufacture such accessories, and was also found guilty for illegal manufacture and marketing.

Although federal law requires silencers to be registered per the NFA, Kansas state law says that all firearms, accessories and ammo manufactured and possessed inside the state are exempt from federal law.

In the petition, Kettler’s legal team explained that the 10th Circuit found that silencers are considered accessories and therefore not granted Second Amendment protection.

“Under that sweeping logic, Congress could ban all ammunition without violating the Second Amendment. That cannot be correct,” the team argued. “The panel’s sole rationale for holding that silencers were not protected was that silencers were not ‘bearable arms,’ a rationale that would apply equally to ammunition. That improper analysis warrants reversal.”

[K.Mooneyham]

President Trump is a businessman and NOT a knowledgeable guy when it comes to firearms. I believe that he is getting advice from those that are either ignorant on the subject, or are flat out lying to him. I wish those who are knowledgeable and in a position to converse with him would do a better job of educating him on the subject.

[TexasJohnBoy]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Ordering a solvent trap if they are banned will be just like ordering those Glock auto sears off Wish.com. If you build your own, you won’t be able to use it anywhere on public.

This is not ok.

If we roll over on this, there will be more to come.

[anygunanywhere]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Ordering a solvent trap if they are banned will be just like ordering those Glock auto sears off Wish.com. If you build your own, you won’t be able to use it anywhere on public.

This is not ok.

If we roll over on this, there will be more to come.

What do you mean if “we” roll over on this?

[TexasJohnBoy]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Ordering a solvent trap if they are banned will be just like ordering those Glock auto sears off Wish.com. If you build your own, you won’t be able to use it anywhere on public.

This is not ok.

If we roll over on this, there will be more to come.

What do you mean if “we” roll over on this?

The collective “we.”

“It’s fine, it won’t affect me, I don’t own any suppressors” - that mentality.

Specifically I want the nations largest gun rights organization to step in somehow and be publicly against this idea.

I’m not trying to be combative or argumentative but this is pretty unnerving.

[anygunanywhere]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Ordering a solvent trap if they are banned will be just like ordering those Glock auto sears off Wish.com. If you build your own, you won’t be able to use it anywhere on public.

This is not ok.

If we roll over on this, there will be more to come.

What do you mean if “we” roll over on this?

The collective “we.”

“It’s fine, it won’t affect me, I don’t own any suppressors” - that mentality.

Specifically I want the nations largest gun rights organization to step in somehow and be publicly against this idea.

I’m not trying to be combative or argumentative but this is pretty unnerving.

I understand. Thank you for clarifying.

[The Annoyed Man]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Ordering a solvent trap if they are banned will be just like ordering those Glock auto sears off Wish.com. If you build your own, you won’t be able to use it anywhere on public.

This is not ok.

If we roll over on this, there will be more to come.

What do you mean if “we” roll over on this?

There’s no "rolling over" for me. If ATF agents show up in overwhelming force like a SWAT team to take my suppressors, I’m going to choose to live to fight another day, and not take them under fire. They can take them and leave in peace. Why? Because having already done so twice, I already know how to manufacture my own. And they work really well, too. If I see a need strong enough to warrant defying the gov’t, I will do so.

I seriously doubt that confiscating suppressors would be enough trigger to kick off a CW2. There’s only something like 250,000 active suppressor registrations right now, and - just as with firearms - a number of those are cases of one person owning multiple cans. So it’s not a big enough population to motivate an uprising. A lot of the nation's 100+ million gun owners will say that a suppressor ban doesn’t affect them, and they won’t commit to a struggle over something that affects less than 1/4 of 1% of them. It’s going to take something like a national level confiscation of all semiautomatic rifles to trigger a CW2.....and THAT would be the kind of need that would motivate me to manufacture a suppressor in secret. Because at that point, federal law enforcement no longer has any legitimacy. In fact NOTHING about federal gov’t has any legitimacy at that point. When it turns upon the people, it becomes our duty to abolish and replace it.

[bbhack]

President Trump is a businessman and NOT a knowledgeable guy when it comes to firearms. I believe that he is getting advice from those that are either ignorant on the subject, or are flat out lying to him. I wish those who are knowledgeable and in a position to converse with him would do a better job of educating him on the subject.

This. Many things he says are meant to confuse the opposition. In this case, he just does not know better. There are a lot of balls in the air, and as much as he should know better, he just does not. I'm sure he's been made aware by now.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Don't expect a public statement, but also don't assume the NRA is doing nothing. Public beating of one's chest is what is done by people and organizations that have no impact. They can't make a difference so they just make noise. As much as I'd like to say more, I cannot.

Chas.

[TexasJohnBoy]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Don't expect a public statement, but also don't assume the NRA is doing nothing. Public beating of one's chest is what is done by people and organizations that have no impact. They can't make a difference so they just make noise. As much as I'd like to say more, I cannot.

Chas.

Thank you for commenting, it’s appreciated.

[anygunanywhere]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Ordering a solvent trap if they are banned will be just like ordering those Glock auto sears off Wish.com. If you build your own, you won’t be able to use it anywhere on public.

This is not ok.

If we roll over on this, there will be more to come.

What do you mean if “we” roll over on this?

There’s no "rolling over" for me. If ATF agents show up in overwhelming force like a SWAT team to take my suppressors, I’m going to choose to live to fight another day, and not take them under fire. They can take them and leave in peace. Why? Because having already done so twice, I already know how to manufacture my own. And they work really well, too. If I see a need strong enough to warrant defying the gov’t, I will do so.

I seriously doubt that confiscating suppressors would be enough trigger to kick off a CW2. There’s only something like 250,000 active suppressor registrations right now, and - just as with firearms - a number of those are cases of one person owning multiple cans. So it’s not a big enough population to motivate an uprising. A lot of the nation's 100+ million gun owners will say that a suppressor ban doesn’t affect them, and they won’t commit to a struggle over something that affects less than 1/4 of 1% of them. It’s going to take something like a national level confiscation of all semiautomatic rifles to trigger a CW2.....and THAT would be the kind of need that would motivate me to manufacture a suppressor in secret. Because at that point, federal law enforcement no longer has any legitimacy. In fact NOTHING about federal gov’t has any legitimacy at that point. When it turns upon the people, it becomes our duty to abolish and replace it.

The first ones that will “roll over” are the RINOs in DC, the ones who “support” the Second Amendment. Same as they have been rolling over since since the illegal immigrant in chief took office.

[clarionite]

Seriously, what’s going on with this? Has there been any response by the NRA to this?

Don't expect a public statement, but also don't assume the NRA is doing nothing. Public beating of one's chest is what is done by people and organizations that have no impact. They can't make a difference so they just make noise. As much as I'd like to say more, I cannot.

Chas.

Charles,

I trust you and the NRA are doing what you can. This issue seems to me to be a perfect example of the left being able to sculpt the discussion in a way that gets them what they want. Using the misleading term Silencer... Leaning on the Hollywood misconception that Suppressors make firearms undetectable. Having a de facto ban (I know we can get them through a very lengthy and expensive process, but most don't) on what should be an encouraged accessory for all hunters. It just seems like we've already ceded the high ground on a fight that should have been a no brainer when explained with logic.

I was very disappointed that the Hearing Protection Act wasn't passed in the first two years when we held both chambers and the white house.