Anatomy of an FBI ‘Terrorism’ Sting: Convicting a Former 911 Operator of a National Firearms Act Felony

By Lee Williams By all accounts, Yunis Isaac Mejia was a good guy – certainly not the type of man who should be spending his next two birthdays behind the wire in a federal prison.  Mejia, a former police dispatcher, had never been arrested in his life until he unknowingly invited an FBI informant to … Read more

The ATF’s Interpretation of the National Firearms Act is an Absurd Anachronism

[T]he NFA’s minimum size rules (and the ATF’s interpretations thereof) are an absurd anachronism. Those restrictions originated in a time when Congress thought it could effectively ban all small, concealable firearms, including handguns, and minimum size rules for rifles and shotguns would have been necessary to close an obvious loophole. But even in 1934, exempting … Read more

Calm Down, the ATF Has Not Ruled That Your AR or AK Pistol is an NFA Regulated Item

If you spend time watching YouTube videos and trolling the gunosphere, you may have run across some videos and other posts announcing that the ATF has now considers any braced AR or AK pistol to be “any other weapon” and is therefore regulated under the National Firearms Act, with all of the paperwork and taxes … Read more