Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the $0 NFA tax for suppressors and short-barreled rifles?
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Chapter 3: How is public perception affecting silencer applications and the ATF's stance?
I'm your host, Matthew LaRosier, and I'm joined against by... against? I'm joined against, opposite me, the Ivan.
Hello, it's me, and this time I'm coming to you live from Nuketown on the hit video game Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Yeah, I see that. And I recognize you're also using the Rottweiler.
Chapter 4: What legal issues is the NRA currently facing?
Yeah, the Rottweiler.
Chapter 5: How did the U.S. government handle the seizure of Maduro in relation to firearms laws?
So how's it been? It's been another month.
Yeah, it's been another week since the last episode.
Sorry, guys.
Chapter 6: What does the year-end review reveal about gun violence trends?
Life is hard. But, you know, we're endeavoring. As you'll see, the digs have changed and I'm still getting set up. But anyway, we were like, no, it's been too long. We've got to get a twig out. And some really interesting stuff happened this week. And the first one I want to talk about just kind of free form is the free tax thing, right?
This week, the government started officially its $0 NFA tax for suppressors and short-barreled rifles.
Chapter 7: How are large capacity magazines impacting the gun debate?
And short-barreled shotguns and AOWs. Yes.
Chapter 8: What are the implications of California's ammo background check ban?
And there has been a brick shitload of applications. Going by the application numbers, we can estimate there's been about half of a million applications in five days, which is really something because we're approaching the applications for many years combined in the period of a year. And we're doing that in a week. So that's wild.
It'll be interesting to see the courts who are still defending this in various actions. But it was kind of like a little gift almost to see those numbers shoot up that way. And they're like, oh, it's dangerous and unusual. It's a danger usual. And it's like, really? Yeah. Okay. So you just approved a gorillion of these. But there's been some really interesting ones, right?
Like a billion people attempted to register potatoes, thanks to our friend RK. And ATF has been denying those registrations, suggesting that there's no way they could meet the serialization requirements.
which i don't agree with yeah i feel like i feel like they're begging for a lawsuit with that yeah yeah no there is an opinion letter that is still presumably good out there where the atf said that you know sticking a potato on the end of your barrel would require the potato to be registered so they seem to be of the opinion that a potato can be a suppressor right if it is to be you know if you are to use it as one if you intend to use it as one then it would be
I don't think they can then turn around and say, well, it's impossible to serialize it to meet the requirements. Right. I guess now you sort of invoke this weird shadow realm of it's an NFA item that can't be made to meet the requirements of things outside the NFA. Certainly is where the marketing requirements come from. But yeah, it's sort of like in a weird limbo zone there.
And I certainly don't think that anybody has like chomping at the bit to sue over a potato suppressor, but somebody who sells a serialization plates, I'm like,
Why not?
Right. Because certainly, right, there ought to be a way to... Because what ATF's looking for is that the serial number be placed in metal, and that metal needs to be placed into the object such that removing it would be destructive. And destructive doesn't necessarily mean the device can't work as intended. It means that it would be much harder than scratching the serial number off.
Because the example that... When people are having this confusion, the easiest thing to look at is glocks, right? There's millions of glocks out there, and the ATF has no problems with how they're marked. The Glock marking plate is a piece of steel, which is not integral to the rest of the frame or the rails.
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