Last Friday, at precisely the moment you were watching those two dozen YouTube videos about The President GUTTING the NFA in a blow for American FREEDOM, the Trump Administration noticed its appeal in Defense Distributed v. Blanche, formerly known as the VanDerStok “frame or receiver” case.
Why would Trump want to rescue and restore the Biden ATF frame or receiver rule?
Of course the question is a joke. If there even is a coherent American gun politics, Trump has no more involvement in it than you, dear reader. Last week’s exercise in pretending there is a “behind the scenes” of ATF policy — our collective praise for Trump’s skillful management of an otherwise hostile bureau — is one of the only remaining ways of doing politics amid our imperial disintegration. Trump is the image of himself in the thumbnails on your mobile phone.
So to recap: At the beginning of the end of American hegemony, you may: buy a B&T suppressor at SilencerShop while *only* submitting to a Brady Background Check. You may not: touch the federal government’s power to designate and control the circulation of small arms in our closed-circuit, military-industrial world system.
In our case at the Supreme Court, the Attorney General of New Jersey asks for an extension.
I’m sure she’ll need it.
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