We gun owners routinely say to one another that we have
the "right" to keep and bear arms. Honestly, though: what
kind of "right" do we have if we are afraid to use it?
There is one federal agency whose job is to instill
fear into gun owners and dealers. That agency is BATFE.
When we're afraid to make a purchase at a gun show,
own an interesting collection of firearms, or effectively protect
our own home and family, then we've already lost
most of the right to keep and bear arms.
Notice the key word: afraid.
Simple fear of being investigated or prosecuted
is enough to deter honest citizens from having, owning, using, or
even taking an interest in firearms. When you realize the staggering
cost of legal defense against even a bogus federal prosecution, you
have every reason to be afraid. And the BATFE has always relied on
our fear.
EXPOSING THE TRUTH -- IT WORKS!
You may know that JPFO, in partnership with courageous
gun-maker Len Savage, has been holding the BATFE's feet to the fire
for the last year. We've documented their chain of abuses, their capriciousness,
and -- yes -- their vindictiveness when cornered. Just check out our
"BATFE: Exposing the Threat"
page.
To show you the impact we're having, the Congressional
Research Memo repeatedly references articles published by JPFO!
Our work is being noticed at the very top! For months, the Department
of Justice attempted to bury the information. Why? Because DOJ and
BATFE were themselves afraid that gun owners and gun makers will finally
be angry enough -- and armed with enough facts -- to oppose them publicly
and effectively. After decades of futile complaints about this brutal,
out-of-control agency, the tide has turned. The momentum is on our
side. We have the BATFE on the run! It's
now up to you to keep the momentum going.
GUN OWNERS CAN WIN THIS ONE
We have literally taken on this dangerous, vindictive
federal agency. And we have had encouraging successes. This fight
against the BATFE abuses has cost money -- more money than we planned.
But that's no reason to stop. In fact, this battle cannot
stop. We must now take it to the next level -- and that means
placing ads in national publications to "wake the choir"
and get gun owners roaring. We must tell gun owners that, after all
these terrible decades of abuse, a handful of crusaders have put the
BATFE on the run -- and that it's now up to all of us
to pursue the BATFE with facts, knowledge, and courage until
it is dismantled and no longer a terror to American gun owners.
Right now it's US vs. BATFE. We need more warriors on
our side. So we need your financial help to keep up the
fight. We plan to run large ads in influential national
media, and these ads will cost $1,000 - $2,000 or more -- each. These
ads will deliver facts to educate and enlist more gun owners to help.
These ads will sound a ringing wake-up call to action.
Yes, we're asking for money. It's the only way to get
the job done. Please call 800-869-1884 now. We can't promise a free gift -- we can only promise you
a tenacious struggle to protect your right to keep and bear arms without
fear. This is your fight. This is the fight for the rights of all
firearms owners in America. Please contact us today and contribute
what you can. Donate to the ''Gang Movie" here and help us defray those costs, which all helps the cause.
If we run out of funds, then we'll have to quit,
and the BATFE will win. Your financial support is crutical
-- to give this rogue agency the boot.
(don't miss
our "Boot the BATFE" T-shirts
, stickers, and pins)
BATFE - Exposing the
Threat
A compilation of our alerts and articles
concerning the BATFE. Newest on top.
[Video]
[Documents] [Articles]
[Links] [ATF
Law & Legal Opinions][Alerts]
VIDEO
BATFE Fails the Test:
The video that started it all. Buy the film you were never meant
to see!
The Gang Movie: An extension of the previous fiml, in more detail.
DOCUMENTS
US vs Kwan case - Dismissal
US vs Olofson
The Harassment
of Red's Trading Post
BATFE book-keeping issues
Len Savage
Testimony -- USA v. Kwan
Kwan
New Trial Order
Kwan
Comments by Len Savage
KTO/Rick
Celata Complaint
KT Ordnance / BATFE lawsuit documents
ATF Complaint
Files
This is a zipped archive of several online news reports on complaints
on the ATF.
BATFE Demands Customer Records! [Page
1] [Page 2]
GAO Report
"Firearms Controls"
Letter
to ATF regarding John Ross (author of Unintended Consequences)
"Sporting
Purposes" Letter [Part
I] [Part II]
An
Open Letter to the FBI
GOOD OL' BOY ROUND-UP INFORMATION
In
July 1995, national attention focused suddenly on an annual
private gathering in southeastern Tennessee known as the "Good
O' Boy Roundup" (Roundup). News stories reported that the
Roundup was a "whites-only" gathering of Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and other federal law enforcement
officers that resembled a "Klan rally" and at which
these agents discriminated against blacks by posting racist
signs, wearing racist T-shirts, performing racist skits, and
playing racist music. A widely-publicized excerpt from a home
video allegedly filmed at a Roundup showed a sign that read,
"Nigger check point." In addition, allegations of
criminal conduct, including narcotics distribution and rape,
were raised at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing held within
ten days of the original news stories.
"Good Ol' Boy Roundup" Report
Executive Summary
"Good Ol' Boy Roundup"
Q&A
"Good
Ol' Boy Roundup" Report
"Good
Ol' Boy Roundup" Report - March 1996 (Rules)
"Good
Ol' Boy Roundup" Report - March 1996 (Allegations of Posting
of Checkpoint Sign)
"Good
Ol' Boy Roundup" Report - March 1996 (Whites-Only Policy)
"Good
Ol' Boy Roundup" Graph of Total Attendance by Affiliation
ATF
Reconsideration Letters
[BM-3000]
[M11 Conversion Trigger]
[Shaughnessy M11 Modular Upper
Adapter]
BATFE
"Do As We Say, Not as We Do" Letter [Part
I] [Part II]
Congressional
Research Service Memo
(PDF)
Truscott
Letter (PDF)
BATFE
Claiming Shoestring is a Machine Gun (JPG format)
Office of Professional Responsibility
(PDF) DOJ response to allegations of ATF misconduct
Len
Savage Evidence File (HTML, with links to PDFs of
letters to/from BATFE)
Letter
to James Sensenbrenner (PDF)
Sensenbrenner
Response (JPG)
HR
1603 - Fairness in Firearms Testing Bill (as introduced
to House) (PDF)
ARTICLES
Am
I an Enemy of the US Government? by Len Savage, February
2006
Why
the ATF's Firearm Testing Procedures are Scientifically Invalid
by Len Savage, July 2005
BATFE
Fails the Test (Shotgun News Article, January
2005)
LINKS
Gang
sweep exaggerated: ATF greatly overstated number of arrests
The
BATFE at Waco
Proposed
Lawsuit Against BATFE
Congress
Told of More ATF Abuses, Reforms Suggested (Sorry - link expired)
Once
Its Star, Agent Assails ATF
Racist
Ways Die Hard at Lawmen's Retreat
BATFE
Being Sued for Shooting Man During Search (Sorry - link expired)
"NICS"
(NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM)
Summary of Findings
Abuses
of the BATF: Institutional Perjury
by James H. Jeffries, III
Transcript
of Roll-Call Training Tape
ATFAbuse.Com
ATF
LAW AND LEGAL OPINIONS (sorry - all these files from Carnegie Mellon seem sadly to be no longer available - any feedback on this material would be appreciated.)
atf_letter8.txt(2k)
ATF on making one large cap. mag out of two pre-ban large cap.
mags.
atf_letter9.txt(1k)
ATF on whether a pistol receiver is subject to the Brady law.
atf_letter10.txt(3k)
Opinion on a pistol gripped, rifled barrel, 12 gauge shot gun,
w. short barrel
atf_letter11.txt(6k)
ATF on assault weapons, disassembly for resale, threaded muzzles
atf_letter12.txt(3k)
Classification of 1927 Colt Thompson and FAL G series rifles
atf_letter13.txt(2k)
ATF on sales at guns shows of C&R firearms acquired from other
dealers
atf_letter18.txt(4k)
1976 letter on legality of wallet holster and High Standard derringer
atf_letter21.txt(2k)
ATF on combination machine gun and silencer where silencer is
removable
atf_letter23.txt(5k)
1966 letter on applicability of transfer taxes to government entities
atf_letter24.txt(2k)
Letter on applicability of 922(r) regulations to semi auto AK
rifles
atf_letter26.txt(2k)
ATF on legality of using a high capacity magazine in an imported
semi-auto rifle
atf_letter32.txt(3k)
ATF on modifying thumbhole stocked semi-autos after their ban
from further importation
atf_letter35.txt(11k)
1985 ATF memo on drop in auto sears and removing them from AR-15
rifles
atf_letter37.txt(3k)
1994 ATF memo on machinegun conversion kits and whether they are
firearms for purposes of the GCA
atf_letter38.txt(2k)
1983 letter regarding a machine gun with an integral silencer
and transferring it as one firearm
atf_letter39.txt(4k)
1980 ATF memo on replacing M1 carbine receiver on M1 converted
into a machinegun
atf_letter41.txt(2k)
6/70 memo on removing a converted M1 carbine from the machine
gun category
atf_letter42.txt(2k)
5/98 ATF letter on moving an NFA firearm from one state to another
to sell it
atf_letter43.txt(2k)
1978 letter on Browning .50 cal sideplate regulated as a receiver
atf_letter44.txt(2k)
1979 ATF letter on part constituting receiver of GE minigun
atf_letter47.txt(2k)
1998 ATF letter on recordkeeping, keeping corp. owned NFA weapons
atf_letter48.txt(2k)
ATF on making a new silencer to replace a defective one w/ same
serial number
atf_letter53.txt(3k)
4/99 ATF letter on installing PSG1 stock and grip onto SAR8
atf_letter56.txt(2k)
ATF on making a short rifle to divorce an HK sear from host gun
atf_letter57.txt(2k)
3/99 ATF letter on changing markings on a registered receiver
NFA firearm
atf_letter58.txt(3k)
1981 letter on use of reproduction Luger and High Power shoulder
stocks
atf_letter60.txt(3k)
6/99 ATF letter on sales of firearms by unlicensed persons to
LE agencies and officers
atf_letter61.txt(3k)
3/99 ATF letter on modifications to registered receiver Uzi machine
gun
atf_letter65.txt(4k)
8/99 ATF letter on NICS checks on corporations, NICS check on
NFA-non-NFA firearm combinations
atf_letter69.txt(2k)
1999 ATF Letter on applicability of NFA to silencer on antique
firearm
atf_letter70.txt(3k)
3/99 ATF letter on using reporduction stocks on Candian Hi Power
pistols
atf_letter71.txt(4k)
1996 ATF letter on making a dummy AR15 and on assault weapon ban
atf_letter72.txt(4k)
9/99 ATF letter on transfer by gunsmiths and transfers to married
couples
atf_letter75.txt(2k)
1/2000 ATF letter on LE certification from Chief of Colorado State
Patrol
atf_letter76.txt(2k)
12/99 ATF letter on status of short barreled HK rifle without
trigger pack
atf_letter77.txt(2k)
1/2000 Letter on transfers of Post-86 machine guns from gov't
entities
atf_letter79.txt(4k)
4/61 ATF letter on classification of FAL G Series rifle for Browning
atf_letter80.txt(3k)
5/63 ATF letter on classification of Browning G Series FAL rifle
atf_letter83.txt(2k)
3/99 ATF letter on which part of the FNC rifle is the receiver
atf_letter84.txt(2k)
3/2000 ATF letter on whether an FAL with full auto ejector block
is a machine gun
atf_letter88.txt(3k)
10/2000 ATF letter on modifying a pre-bad large capacity magazine
to work in a different weapon
atf_letter89.txt(3k)
10/2000 ATF letter on if a Romanian Ak47's threading counts as
threading for a flash suppressor
atf_letter90.txt(4k)
3/2000 ATF letter on possessing an AR and an M16 and spare parts
and uppers
ALERTS – some information within these alerts may be out of date regarding links etc.
BATFE
"Responds" to SBA Concerns
(9/19/06)
AN
OPEN LETTER TO THE FBI
(6/14/06)
Help
Deal a Death Blow to the BATFE! (6/13/06)
BATFE Raids KT Ordnance!
(6/8/06)
Experiences with the BATFE
-- an Update (5/8/2006)
SWAT
Highlights "Boot" Campaign
(4/21/2006)
Taxes and Gun Rights (4/3/2006)
BATFE Hearings Quietly
Reinstated (3/29/2006)
"Boot" Campaign
Continues (3/21/2006)
"If You Have Nothing
to Hide..." (3/15/2006)
Spread
the Word (3/13/2006)
Exposing
the Truth (3/7/2006)
We
Warned you
(2/28/2006)
Part
II of BATFE Hearings (2/27/2006)
The
Farce on Capitol Hill
(2/16/2006)
BATFE
Hearings to be Webcast
(2/13/2006)
Congressional
Hearings on BATFE (2/9/2006)
More
News on Our Boot Campaign (1/30/2006)
Have
You Been Contacted by the BATFE? (1/27/2006)
Kicking
Off Our "Boot" Campaign (1/2/2006)
War
Against Gun Owners (12/12/2005)
Give
BATFE the Boot! (12/6/2005)
Could
Science Prove You Guilty of a Crime You Didn't Commit?
(11/28/2005)
Talkin'
to America Interviews Firearms Freedom Fighter Len Savage
(11/2/2005)
Congress
Confirms Lack of ATF Testing Standards (10/28/2005)
The
End of the Republican Party? (9/23/2005)
Exclusive
Report: Len Savage Exposes the Phony Science Behind BATFE Firearms
Testing (7/1/2005)
"The
Disinterested Disposition to Punish": James Sensenbrenner
and the Destruction of Freedom (5/19/2005)
Fairness
in Firearm Testing (4/18/2005)
Rep.
Sensenbrenner Fails the Test (3/29/2005)
New
Spirit of Cooperation with Gun-Makers (3/7/2005)
One
More Innocent American Entrapped by the Lying BATFE
(1/28/2005)
Has
the BATFE Declared War Against an American Gun Maker?
(1/24/2005)
More
Unamericanism (and Even a Touch of Insanity) From the BATFE
(1/17/2005)
Viewers
Rave Over BATFE Fails the Test (1/8/2005)
Vital
Warning to All Owners of Semi-Automatic Firearms
(1/3/2005)
4/27/10 - Four new links to follow - 3 part item and fourth follow up ......
