Americans able to buy deadly ‘gangster weapons’ again as lobbying forces key concession from Trump officials
US citizens are free once more to buy some of the country’s most deadly firearms and gun accessories, after relentless lobbying by the gun industry and Republican politicians forced a concession from the Trump administration under the federal government shutdown.
As of this week, gun owners will be able to restart purchases of some of the most highly regulated weapons in the US, with the return to work of federal employees responsible for regulating the items now reclassified as “essential”. They include silencers, short-barreled rifles and vintage machine-guns produced before 1986.
Sales of those items had ground to a halt under the shutdown after federal examiners charged with regulating the purchases were furloughed. The examiners formed part of the NFA division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
If that’s your strategy, you and I are not on the same side. I’m not going to fight fascists by becoming them.
How is saying bad things about fascists the same as being fascist?
Fascists lie. I don’t want to trade one group of liars for another. Fascists believe the ends justify the means. I don’t want to trade one group that believes that for another. If you try to defeat fascists by acting like them, how far do you have to go before I can’t tell you apart anymore?