{"id":89085,"date":"2025-01-22T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89085"},"modified":"2025-01-22T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:38:00","slug":"pulling-the-mother-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89085","title":{"rendered":"Shooting For The Octopus&#8217;s Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All modern gun control is build on the National Firearms Act.\u00a0\u00a0 Gun Control Act of 1968?\u00a0 Hughes Amendment?\u00a0 Arbitrary BATFE power?\u00a0\u00a0 Most arbitrary local regulations?\u00a0 Yes, yes, yes\u00a0 and yes.<\/p>\n<p>And tinkering with any of the arms of the octopus without going for the head is merely treating the symptoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep Burleson (MO7) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xFRNra37kio\">going for the head<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) was the first federal law to impose limitations on firearm ownership. It requires Americans to pay a $200 tax, register, and undergo an application process to own certain firearms and accessories.<br><br>For decades, unelected bureaucrats have attempted to use the NFA to impose new regulations on gun owners without Congressional approval. This month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-announces-new-rule-address-stabilizing-braces-accessories-used-convert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ATF published a rule<\/a> to reclassify firearms with pistol braces as short-barrel rifles (SBR), meaning millions of law-abiding Americans will become felons unless they submit to the NFA\u2019s unconstitutional tax and registration scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an explainer &#8211; the first of many.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bill to Repeal the NFA Submitted\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xFRNra37kio?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with GOP control in DC, it&#8217;s quixotic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All modern gun control is build on the National Firearms Act.\u00a0\u00a0 Gun Control Act of 1968?\u00a0 Hughes Amendment?\u00a0 Arbitrary BATFE power?\u00a0\u00a0 Most arbitrary local regulations?\u00a0 Yes, yes, yes\u00a0 and yes. And tinkering with any of the arms of the octopus without going for the head is merely treating the symptoms.\u00a0 Rep Burleson (MO7) is going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89088,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89085\/revisions\/89088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}