They're All Machine Guns Now
   By Carl Bussjaeger, October 13, 2009

Added 1/18/10
Very much worth reading:
An open letter to ATF Scum Jody Keeku, from Mike Vanderboegh.

David Olofson is officially fucked. And so are you.

CERTIORARI DENIED...

...09-256 OLOFSON, DAVID V. UNITED STATES

Let me explain why this is very, very bad.

Mr. Olofson loaned a rifle to an acquaintance, who then took it to a gun range to do some target shooting. This rifle was designed and built for semi-automatic operation only; one shot per operation of the trigger. Unfortunately, Mr. Olofson was unaware that the rifle had developed an intermittent malfunction. This malfunction caused bursts to go off a couple of times.

Enter the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, Nigger-Hunting, Kitten-stomping, and "Friendly Fire".*

The BATFeces regulates machine guns. Under federal law, a machine gun is a firearm that fires multiple rounds per trigger operation. The BATFeces also considers any part that could convert a firearm to a machine gun to be itself a machine gun, which is how the BATFeces came to declare, in writing, that a shoelace is a machine gun (seriously; you can't make this shit up).

Also under federal law it is illegal to own or "transfer" a machine gun without paying specific taxes and the trasferrer having a specific license. Up till now "transfer" meant a change of ownership. But with a wave of the bureaucratic magical wand that turns a shoelace into a machine gun, you can turn a temporary loan into a transfer (and you're probably pretty good at stomping kittens during raids, as well as shooting your fellow agents in the back).

Equipped with a perspective on reality that almost has to be LSD-induced, and no written standards for testing, the BATFeces tested Mr. Olofson's rifle. It fired only as designed and built: semi-automatic only.

Thanking their lucky lack of testing standards, the BATFeces, scrounged around and found a batch of ammunition with very soft primers (for the non-gunnies, this basically means they go off easily). After more "testing" they finally got the rifle to fire twice. Once.

No matter; they declared it an unregistered, untaxed machine gun, and charged Mr. Olofoson with a felony. He had "transferred" a "machine gun" illegally.

Thanks to a corrupt prosecutor, a crooked judge (the Defense's expert witness was not allowed in court to hear the BATFeces "expert" testify, and documentation from the rifle's manufacturer recalling the rifle model for intermittent double-fire malfunctions was excluded), and an ill-informed jury, Mr. Olofson was convicted. The rifle was a machine gun. It didn't matter that it was a malfunction. It didn't matter that Mr. Olofson didn't even know.

Mr.Olofson appealed. The appellate court refused to hear the case. Mr. Olofson then appealed to the Supreme Court. And today, the rat bastards in black dresses refused to hear the case, and let the ruling stand without comment.

If you own any firearm that breaks and causes two shots to go off, you have a machine gun. Even if you don't know that it's broken. If Granpa's old double barrel duck gun screws up and lets off both barrels at the same time, Gramps is going to prison.

If you ever sell a gun that ever doubles thereafter, you're up shit creek.

And the Supreme Court, those crossing-dressing weasels, are cool with that.

Have you ever wanted to go to Knob Creek, or some other machine gun shoot, where NFA owners let folks borrow their weapons for some fun target shooting? Go while you can.

The only way to legally protect yourself, is to register all of your double-barreled or semi-automatic firearms as machine guns, just in case. If you think you might ever sell another firearm, you'd better get an NFA license, too. The problem with this -- besides immoral registration and taxation of a Constitutionally-guaranteed right -- is that no machine gun manufactured after 1986 can be transferred, except to police, military, and some corporations.

That 1986 cut-off gets interesting now. Suppose Colt manufactured a semi-automatic AR-15 in 2008. It was transferred to some dealer, and finally you bought it. And suppose it malfunctioned one day, and magically became a machine gun in the eyes of morons like SCOTUS. Well...

• You're now in possession of an unregistered machine gun. Go to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 (which coincidentally is the per item tax on machine guns).
• If your dealer doesn't have an NFA license, he's going to prison for transferring a machine gun.
• Someone at Colt is going to prison for manufacturing and transferring a post-1986 machine gun to a civilian.

And those crossing-dressing bastards, are cool with that, too

You don't believe it can get that bad? You'd better start, because this is a back door way of banning every semi-auto out there, even under Heller, since the Supreme Elitist Scumbags already granted that machine guns can be regulated. The only problem was getting everything defined as a machine gun. Olofson does that.

Silly, you say? Tell that to the assholes who turned a shoelace into a machine gun. Or tell it to Len Savage.

Then think about what other products you might apply this precedent to.

And don't forget to register those shoelaces: 200 bucks apiece.

* If you don't get all those references, do a few web searches on ATF parties and "nigger hunting licenses", raid on gun show promoter + kitten, and Waco ATF casualties. JPFO is also a good source.