Feds Crack Down On Machine Gun Conversion Devices In Wisconsin

One must wonder if the incoming Trump Administration’s well-laid plans to streamline the government and trim the bureaucratic fat might affect the propensity of federal agencies to waste taxpayer dollars chasing fabricated monsters. With less than two months remaining until inauguration day, we can only speculate, but for the time being the feds are back at it, this time targeting what they call “illegal machine gun conversion devices” in the state of Wisconsin. 

Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin have teamed up to target what they say is a “rising threat” posed by illegal machine gun conversion devices (MCDs). The dolts behind this epic squander are U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin, working alongside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Putting their heads together and still not reaching the smooth brain capacity of a koala, these misfits have detailed a strategy they are confident will combat the proliferation of MCDs through enforcement, investigation and public education. 

Since they’ve decided to lob me easy ones, let’s address enforcement, investigation and public education. First, I’d love to see some actual enforcement of the law of the land. The last time I checked on this subject it was the Second Amendment. Pretending not to understand the words on paper doesn’t erase them or change their meaning. The very name they use to describe these devices denotes the status of a weapon, or arms, specifically and unequivocally protected in the Bill of Rights. Second, I’d investigate those who think legislature exists to circumvent the Constitution including anyone who attempts to enforce these illegal measures like the compliant little brown shirts they are. Finally, I agree with public education entirely, and I believe we saw how a little education goes a long way in this last election. People are starting to catch on and the shift seems to be heading in one direction.

Don’t be constrained by reason and logic, U.S. Attorney O’Shea. Tell us all about the grave danger we face from these inanimate objects. 

“Machine gun conversion devices are extraordinarily dangerous… Discharging a weapon equipped with such a device in a public area endangers every child and adult within range. Keeping these illegal devices off the streets in Wisconsin is one of my highest priorities,” says O’Shea. 

But who is it that discharges any firearm in a public area like this? It certainly isn’t your average law-abiding gun owner. With an estimated 32% of Americans owning guns and around 400 million firearms in the hands of private owners, I promise you that if they were really the problem, it would be glaringly obvious, terrifyingly so, but it isn’t. 

The issue of violence facing our country today has far more to do with unchecked criminal behavior, prosecution-averse district attorneys trading justice for votes and political currency, a wide open border and mental health issues nobody wants to discuss because they are so triggering and the pharmaceutical industry is not done profiting from it. 

It is important to remember that the Second Amendment does not exist so that we can go hunting, even though that is an activity many of us enjoy. It is also not meant strictly for protection from common criminality, though it is certainly effective in that role. The uncomfortable truth that the government is more than aware of is that the Second Amendment exists to put American citizens on equal if not more advantageous footing than those they elect to represent them. The founders knew, like any government, that the one they created would one day demand more and more power over the people, and that citizens would need to be well-equipped to stand their ground, speak truth to that power and even liberate their country from its tyrannical rule. It is with this in mind that I ridicule and accuse those who pursue a fool’s errand and an oppressive means to erode the rights of my fellow countrymen.