Yesterday, Thursday, Dec 10, the ATF served a search warrant at the Polymer80 facility in Nevada. The search warrant was for sales records for a kit that the company sells.
Today, the Wall Street Journal employed the mainstream media’s standard scare tactics when reporting on the “raid” in an article titled “Ghost-Gun Company Raided by Federal Agents.”
Raided? Really?
Okay, first of all, we need to clear something up. A “raid” and “serving a search warrant” for sales records are not remotely the same thing, yet every time any gun or gun parts company is the subject of a search warrant, the media calls it a raid.
A raid is what the ATF used to do to alcohol production facilities during prohibition. Showing up at a lawful business, walking inside and handing management a warrant for sales records is most definitely NOT a raid.
Next, we know what company the ATF visited, Polymer80 and served a warrant for records for their “Buy Build Shoot Kits,” which are pistol kits.. Yet the cover photo for the article focuses on three firearms from the AR-15 family. This is not a secret as the Polymer80 website has pictures of their products all over the website, including the pistol kits in question, but the liberal media knows their hoplophobic readers are scared of AR-15’s so they put pictures of them in the article.
What the WSJ notably did not include in the article was a picture of the actual product for which the ATF warrant was based. Per the article, the ATF is raising concerns about one series of products sold by Polymer80, their “Buy Build Shoot” kits. The ATF is claiming those kits constitute an actual firearm, but more on that later.
Next, they name two very specific violent crimes while discussing the warrant served on Polymer80, one of which was a school shooting.
“Last year, a 16-year-old killed two fellow students and wounded three others at Saugus High School in Southern California with a homemade handgun.”
I find it odd that they mention the Saugus HS shooting while talking about Polymer80, especially since the Saugus HS shooting was perpetrated using a .45ACP 1911 that was built by the suspect’s father. It was most definitely NOT a Polymer80 based handgun.
But why should we expect anything different? This is what the media does, they twist facts and conflate issues to scare their readers. They do all of that in order to push their agenda, which in this case is to push more gun control.
ATF flip flopping
Now, getting back to that whole kit that the ATF is suddenly claiming constitutes a firearm. The kit consists of a Polymer80 PF940C series frame kit, and the other parts needed to assemble a firearm, once the necessary machining has been completed.
Street cop side note: Calling the ATF “law enforcement” is an insult to actual law enforcement officers everywhere.
That particular frame kit has previously been determined by the very same ATF to NOT be a firearm. The ATF determination letter stating so can be found here, but to speed this up a tad, I have also included a screen grab of the pertinent portion of the letter.
It has long been understood that the frame is the only portion of a firearm that actually, legally constitutes the firearm. This is the one part of the gun that is required to have a serial number on it and be sold, at least initially, via a dealer with a federal firearms license (FFL). If the ATF says the frame kit does not constitute a firearm, because it still needs a certain amount of machining to be completed on the frame, then merely putting that same kit in a bigger box with a few other parts does not remotely change the amount of machining that the kit needs, and logically should not remotely change the determination.
Whether or not Polymer80 based firearms have been used by criminals in crime does not remotely change the fact that the kits they sell have been determined by the ATF to not constitute a firearm.
The ATF has been acting very erratically lately, and sadly if Biden becomes president (the fat lady has not yet sung), I foresee that erratic behavior only getting worse.
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