JPFO alert and some questions/thoughts thereon.
ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
February 19, 2007
JPFO ALERT: Classifying Your Firearms into Oblivion
In 2003, Akins Group Inc. developed the Akins Accelerator,
a bumpfire stock for a Ruger 10/22 that can produce about
650 rounds/minute. The company received classification
letters from the BATFE agreeing that the stock was not a
firearm and therefore unregulated.
Akins performed approximately 18 months of testing, built
injection molds based on the results, and began offering
the Accelerator to the public in December of 2006.
True to form, the BATFE suddenly decided that the plastic
stock was in fact a machine gun. The considerable time,
effort, and of course money Akins invested into the project
has been rendered essentially useless. You can read the
entire saga at http://www.firefaster.com/documentation.html .
As our regular readers are aware, this isn't the first time
that the BATFE has changed its mind on a classification.
Our "Boot the BATFE" page at
http://www.jpfo.org/bootbatfe.htm has several ATF
Reconsideration letters listed.
It's important to realize what this really means. The ATF
tells a manufacturer that a particular product is legal and
acceptable. Based on this, the manufacturer invests large
sums of money to produce the product, and even begins
distributing the product. AFTER the money is spent, AFTER
the inventory has been built, AFTER customers have
purchased the product, the BATFE says, "Oops, just kidding.
It's illegal."
Now the manufacturer has wasted valuable capital and his
customers are in possession of products that could get them
fined or jailed! All because the BATFE changed its mind.
It gets worse.
The BATFE is declaring by fiat that this product or that is
"illegal". There's no legislation involved. No
Congressional hearings. No oversight at all. Just a
bureaucrat stating, "Yeah, this is illegal." Your only
recourse is to beg them to reconsider again (and how likely
is that?)
If the BATFE is reclassifying plastic rifle stocks to be
machine guns, what's to stop them from reclassifying
semi-autos as machine guns? After all, your semi-auto has
"characteristics and features of a machine gun" (the
BATFE's favorite phrase lately). And if a _shoelace_ can be
classified a machine gun (yes, really!
http://www.jpfo.org/shoestring.jpg), then why not?
Here is yet more proof -- as if we didn't have enough --
that the BATFE is an unelected rogue agency run amok. It is
a law unto itself; as many people have found, merely
criticizing it can result in dire consequences.
If you haven't yet supported the making of our film The
Gang -- a film with the express goal of helping to abolish
the BATFE and end all federal control and regulation of
firearms --, why not? We MUST bring down Leviathan now,
before our right to keep and bear arms is a faded memory.
Go to www.jpfo.org/thegang.htm or www.thegangmovie.com for
more information.
- The Liberty Crew
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JPFO mirror site: http://www.jpfo.net
Posters thoughts/questions
1. What practical, real world purpose is or might there be for this BUMP FIRING business, which whole it might sound impressive (machinegun like), leaves open the following. Could the BUMPFIRER likely hit anythng that they were shooting at, except via accdent?
2. Exactly whom might it be that died, leaving the BATFE boss?
3. The 650 rounds/minute mentioned at the beginning of the JPFO message is, I suspect, a CYCLIC RATE OF FIRE, or put otherwise, a theoritical rate of fire, not a rate of fire actually attainable or attained. The foregoing leads me to the following question. What Price Glory?
ALERT FROM JEWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF FIREARMS OWNERSHIP
America's Aggressive Civil Rights Organization
February 19, 2007
JPFO ALERT: Classifying Your Firearms into Oblivion
In 2003, Akins Group Inc. developed the Akins Accelerator,
a bumpfire stock for a Ruger 10/22 that can produce about
650 rounds/minute. The company received classification
letters from the BATFE agreeing that the stock was not a
firearm and therefore unregulated.
Akins performed approximately 18 months of testing, built
injection molds based on the results, and began offering
the Accelerator to the public in December of 2006.
True to form, the BATFE suddenly decided that the plastic
stock was in fact a machine gun. The considerable time,
effort, and of course money Akins invested into the project
has been rendered essentially useless. You can read the
entire saga at http://www.firefaster.com/documentation.html .
As our regular readers are aware, this isn't the first time
that the BATFE has changed its mind on a classification.
Our "Boot the BATFE" page at
http://www.jpfo.org/bootbatfe.htm has several ATF
Reconsideration letters listed.
It's important to realize what this really means. The ATF
tells a manufacturer that a particular product is legal and
acceptable. Based on this, the manufacturer invests large
sums of money to produce the product, and even begins
distributing the product. AFTER the money is spent, AFTER
the inventory has been built, AFTER customers have
purchased the product, the BATFE says, "Oops, just kidding.
It's illegal."
Now the manufacturer has wasted valuable capital and his
customers are in possession of products that could get them
fined or jailed! All because the BATFE changed its mind.
It gets worse.
The BATFE is declaring by fiat that this product or that is
"illegal". There's no legislation involved. No
Congressional hearings. No oversight at all. Just a
bureaucrat stating, "Yeah, this is illegal." Your only
recourse is to beg them to reconsider again (and how likely
is that?)
If the BATFE is reclassifying plastic rifle stocks to be
machine guns, what's to stop them from reclassifying
semi-autos as machine guns? After all, your semi-auto has
"characteristics and features of a machine gun" (the
BATFE's favorite phrase lately). And if a _shoelace_ can be
classified a machine gun (yes, really!
http://www.jpfo.org/shoestring.jpg), then why not?
Here is yet more proof -- as if we didn't have enough --
that the BATFE is an unelected rogue agency run amok. It is
a law unto itself; as many people have found, merely
criticizing it can result in dire consequences.
If you haven't yet supported the making of our film The
Gang -- a film with the express goal of helping to abolish
the BATFE and end all federal control and regulation of
firearms --, why not? We MUST bring down Leviathan now,
before our right to keep and bear arms is a faded memory.
Go to www.jpfo.org/thegang.htm or www.thegangmovie.com for
more information.
- The Liberty Crew
==================================================
==========
JPFO mirror site: http://www.jpfo.net
Posters thoughts/questions
1. What practical, real world purpose is or might there be for this BUMP FIRING business, which whole it might sound impressive (machinegun like), leaves open the following. Could the BUMPFIRER likely hit anythng that they were shooting at, except via accdent?
2. Exactly whom might it be that died, leaving the BATFE boss?
3. The 650 rounds/minute mentioned at the beginning of the JPFO message is, I suspect, a CYCLIC RATE OF FIRE, or put otherwise, a theoritical rate of fire, not a rate of fire actually attainable or attained. The foregoing leads me to the following question. What Price Glory?