Matthew Larosiere
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I've been quiet - why? (FRT and Russian Ammo Ban)
🕑 Added 2021-08-22 16:45:09 +0000 UTCI was recording a video to respond to the FRT thing, when suddenly I fell quite ill. I've been barely able to stay conscious for more than 2 hours since then. As soon as I'm physically able, I'll be making a video breaking down and demystifying the FRT and Russian ammo ban situations.
While I'm here typing, though, I'll say a couple things about both:
Ammo ban: there's a lot of confusion here. For one, very few Russian firearms eligible for importation remained by 2016, and the Trump administration shut off almost all that remained. As far as firearms go, this present ban eliminates everything else.
Remember the focus on importability is location or origin. That screws the proverbial dog for anything remaining right now, and some other stuff that we were used to getting in.
This present ban is under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991.
"What?!" you might be thinking, and that makes sense.
A year ago Russia may have kinda maybe allegedly poisoned someone a little bit. Well, under the present administration's interpretation of the 1991 Act, that's something they need to do something about right now. There are some things that a US president must do when another country engages in chemical warfare, and other things that are discretionary.
It probably won't surprise you to find out what category the ammo ban fell under: discretionary.
The president has the discretion to choose 3 sanctions from a long list, and "import controls" are one of them. So of course, he picked something completely random out of a hat, which had nothing to do with any political motivations at all.
We've dealt with sanctions under the 1991 Act before, and they've lasted long after the impetus for the sanction was long forgotten. It is yet another tool in the mercantilist toolbox to punish our "enemies" abroad by cutting off our own people from the products and services they want.
FRT: The trigger was designed by a lawyer to specifically not be a machinegun under the letter of the law. I have examined one extensively and I am fully convinced it is not a machinegun under the letter of the law. I am also fully convinced that ATF does not care a single mite what the law actually says.
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I hope you get well soon. Florida needs good guys like you more than ever.
NightTrace
Get well soon, gfy
