And old LE subgun

built for a specific group and purpose.

I'm going to link a few things, partly so I don't lose them an addition

and partly because they have information you might be able to use.

It's Been Easy To Forget How Bad Kamala Harris Is

A fascist rally in Washington, DC
Really a flat-out Nazi rally


A whole bunch of links of media weenies then calling Harris the Border Czar and such, since they're now saying she never was


A nice piece on some of the weapon-handling problems during the assassination attempt.
And it has this at the close:
Here’s what you should really be contemplating…
One of the best trained and equipped law enforcement agencies in the entire world failed at their jobs to protect the former president in a public place despite a virtually unlimited budget. Why do you think your local cops can protect you and your family from violent crime? You are on your own. You should train with this concept in mind.


On the EffingBI, would any of you be surprised by this?
Police departments throughout the United States have stopped sharing information with the FBI due a “disturbing loss of trust” in the Bureau, an alarming new whistleblower report has found.

An alliance of retired and active duty FBI special agents and analysts examined the attitudes of the Bureau’s “local law enforcement partners,” drawing on the testimony of more than 30 “independent, highly credible law enforcement sources and sub-sources” across the country.


Speaking of LE, the local cops offered drones to the SS before the rally, and were turned down.


Man, they're REALLY trying to change history to protect Harris:

Added: No, I do not think AIPAC has a guy assigned to every member of Congress telling them how to vote.  I don't think you're a National Socialist if you believe that, I do think that's dumb.

If knives in the hands of bad guys or insane people don't scare you,

what's wrong with you?  The actual 'all goes to hell' starts at 3 minutes in.


Multiple hits, he goes down but still has the knife, then gets up with it...
And it all happens fast

This is pretty big and serious

The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office says it will pull back all staff responding to calls for services within the City of Portland, citing “unnecessary personal and professional risk”.
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“As sheriff, your safety and the safety of the Clackamas County residents remain my top priorities,” his email reads. “Our work is dangerous enough without adding unnecessary risk when responding to calls for services in the city of Portland.”
Sounds like "The Portland PD and city government won't back us up, and we're sick of it.  Screw 'em."

Vancouver police have said they are considering doing the same as well.

I would bet that watching Portland PD stand around while antifa clowns take over streets and attack people, and the mayor approving, has a lot to do with this.

That post on 'cops shooting when they shouldn't' got a big reaction

from both sides.  Since I've been called, in the past, a hater of cops for posting such, and too easy on cops by others, I'm going to throw this in:

As I've said before, I won't call all cops bad guys because I've known too many good ones to tolerate that.  I will call a lot of otherwise good cops a problem because they won't generally do anything- other than trying not to work with them- about the bad ones, and that itself is a big problem.

US policing took a real wrong turn when it began emphasizing 'law enforcement officer' instead of 'peace officer', and that's where a lot of the crap began.  Then, over time, throw in the 'street warrior' crap that some trainers use, and it gets worse.  In large part because it seems a lot of it emphasizes "Shoot fast, because you may not get another chance", which winds up with innocent people dead(that incident in the Wal-Mart a couple of years ago is a fine example).

Then the department lawyers up, in far too many cases because, in essence, "Whatever he did, we cannot publicly admit any wrong."  Throw in police unions who, even when there's video of an officer acting truly horribly, will make excuses.  Which, taken together, causes a lot of people to decide "The cops don't give a crap about us, why should I give a damn about them?"

Put together, it really messes things up, especially for the cops who are NOT abusive, or uncaring, or badly trained.  People who know them think they're great, but "All those others, guy, they suck."

Answers?  Personally I think getting rid of qualified immunity would help a lot; if the bad ones, and iffy ones, knew that pulling the crap they get away with now would mean paying damages out of their own pockets, I think a lot of it would stop real quick.  Department brass who care more about the profession and the people they serve than about 'image', and get rid of the bad ones as fast as possible.  Cops need to know that when they're in the right, their brass will be right behind them all the way; when they're in the wrong, they'll answer for it.

Clean up the SWAT bullshit.  It's a very valuable tool when used correctly, but that means
Do NOT use it unless it's actually needed.
Unless something actually requires the violence and hazard of a kick-in-the-doors raid, DO NOT DO THAT.
Your team raids the wrong address?  Didn't make sure, as much as humanly possible, that person actually lives there?  That needs to be punished harshly.

Add in, as demonstrated by the Portland and Seattle bullshit, that the cops are not used as enforcers by politicians.  That shit is going to come back on them really badly, and I'll bet they whine and moan a lot when it does.

Ok, I'm done on this for now.  I shall now see if I can get my sinuses to stop acting like someone's sneaking quick-set epoxy in there.

“Peace Officers” vs. “Law Enforcement Officers”

Oh yes.  Go read this, preferably now.  And pay real attention to this:
A former sergeant once called me into his office to order me to write more traffic tickets.  While he was telling me about my numeric deficiencies, he made this statement:

“I need you to write more tickets.  It will make both of us look better.  Besides that, it gives you the chance to fuck with people.  All cops like to fuck with people.”

The sergeant certainly liked to fuck with people, but I don’t.  I have better things to do.  Thinking back on that moment caused me to realize that I might have found the ultimate litmus test between “peace officer” and “law enforcement officer.”

Is the majority of your day spent fucking with people and generating inconsequential “stats?”  If so, you aren’t a peace officer.  You are a revenue generating cog in a political machine.  Your conduct will further undermine the public trust in our profession.  Stop it.

When one of the big gripes about a show is 'it's too American!',

tells you what they're really after.

Yeah, they're gonna shut down Dolly Parton.  In their dreams.


Well, this doesn't look good for Charlottesville.


Mayor Ted Wheeler announced on Twitter that Portland City Council unanimously approved police reforms that eliminate the “48-hour rule,” which previously provided officers who utilized deadly force two days until granting interviews or providing statements.
A lot of cities have rules like this, and it's ticked-off a lot of people.


Gelatin tests on some .38 Special, 9mm, .380, .22 and .32 Mag loads from snubbies.  Lots of penetration, almost none expanded.


In the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey.  The hell they don't want to take your guns.



When I went to bed last night it was a 30% chance of rain today.  Woke up with it pouring, still showed that.  Now, with it still bloody raining(this friggin' storm keeps rebuilding just south of us) and there's a flash flood warning out, it's become '100% chance of rain'.  Bleep.

Man, they're nasty, I think this comes under 'Cruel and Unusual Punishment'

A good piece on the Orlando mass-murder,

and the mistakes in stopping it.  Couple of bits:
Instead, they allowed the enemy to reload and reposition. That was the critical error that resulted in an additional lose of life. People bled to death while they waited, and then the shooter killed more.

The Orlando Police chief says they didn’t enter and stopped firing because the situation became a “barricaded gunman situation,” and it was no longer an “active shooter situation.”
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None of that matters. Whether or not it remained an active shooter situation, it certainly remained an active dying situation. While the already outdated and discarded “wait and see” policy was in effect in Orlando, multiple people bled to death.

In the article, former FBI SWAT team member and hostage negotiator Chris Voss states “buying time increases the likelihood of a successful assault” and can often save more lives.” This ignores a painful fact.

Tick Tock, Drip Drop, they are bleeding to death.  Lots of them.
Which makes me think of Columbine.  SWAT teams all over, and doing nothing because 'We need a full plan before we act.'  And a bunch of people bled to death while they were planning.

It's a good piece, but has a very disturbing conclusion, which I'll put here:
Why was this the option, and why did it take three hours to make that decision?

Mr. Voss again sheds some light on that decision making process: “This is not military combat where there are acceptable casualties on both sides. Law enforcement doesn’t have that conversation. No casualties are acceptable.”

The two sides he is speaking of are the shooter and law enforcement. The unacceptable casualty rate is for law enforcement. The conversation that law enforcement doesn’t have is how many law enforcement casualties are acceptable. Who’s missing from that equation? The victims. The dying. 
Those are the “acceptable” casualties.

You are on your own.
Brings up a new line: When seconds count, the police may be spending hours planning what to do.

There seems to be a strict dichotomy on the subject of cops

with a lot of people: either you consider them the heroes of society, hold that the bad ones are very few and far between, and deserve near-worship,
or
You hate them, think they're all jackbooted fascist thugs, and want them all to DIE!

Idiots.

Yes, there are bad cops(too many) who should have the badge taken away

from them; they disgrace it.  That doesn't mean all are bad, or that because a suspect who dies was black that it was automatically because of 'RACISM!'.  Or that being listed as 'unarmed' means they weren't a threat.

It's been said that the War On Drugs has done at least as much damage to this country as the drugs; the OBLM clowns, and the racists in politics who ignore all the deaths of blacks at the hands of other blacks except when they think they can use it politically, has done more damage to black communities than the KKK could.  Can you imagine the delight of those bastards at the numbers of blacks killed in drive-bys, the straight-up murders, the glorification of gangs?  But the REAL concern, according to the idiots, is white cops(well, ALL whites, but let's shorten the list to the most-guilty according to them).  But if you bring that up, you get the standard "You're a racist!" from the idiots.  Because bringing up data that conflicts with the Preferred Narrative™ is not to be allowed.


Yeah, the Canadian health system is GREAT, right?
This edition of Waiting Your Turn indicates that, overall, waiting times for medically necessary treatment have not improved since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 18.3 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—slightly longer than the 18.2 week wait reported in 2014. This year’s wait time is 97% longer than in 1993 when it was just 9.3 weeks.
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There is also a great deal of variation among specialties. Patients wait longest between a GP referral and orthopae-dic surgery (35.7 weeks), while those waiting for radiation oncology begin treatment in 4.1 weeks.
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Patients also experience significant waiting times for various diagnostic technologies across the provinces. This year, Canadians could expect to wait 4.0 weeks for a computed tomography (CT) scan, 10.4 weeks for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, and 4.0 weeks for an ultrasound.
Great, isn't it?  No wonder people keep insisting I'm lying about its wonders when I point out they have real problems.

Just to add to this, someone sent me this link from a British news site on hospitals there:
* as well as 43 people who starved to death, 287 people were recorded by doctors as being malnourished when they died in hospitals;

* there were 558 cases where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of severe dehydration in hospitals;

* 78 hospital and 39 care home patients were killed by bedsores, while a further 650 people who died had their presence noted on their death certificates;

* 21,696 were recorded as suffering from septicemia when they died, a condition which experts say is most often associated with infected wounds.
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"These are people's mothers, fathers, and grandparents," she said. "It is hard enough to lose a loved one, but to find out that they died because they were not adequately fed or hydrated, is a trauma no family should have to bear."
There's more.  Remember, this is the system that Obama & Co. said we should emulate because 'it works so well'.

Among the perils of using LE as revenue-raisers,

The other report showed that Ferguson was a speed trap for people going nowhere, six square miles of mostly black people, mostly poor, with 50 cops, almost all white, who were ordered to milk them for every possible nickel by white city managers. Black people were further bled dry in a punitive cycle of fines and fees; missed court dates led to arrest warrants, which left them increasingly incapable of having a chance at a productive life.
I'll note that when LE is used this way, it doesn't just hit blacks; it pisses off EVERYBODY.  And hits the poor hardest, as they can afford this crap the least.

And something that pisses me off every time some RWPP like Sharpton or Holder opens their mouth to yell about black lives ended by someone of different skin color, but they rarely say anything about a bad Chicago weekend:
In 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 129 instances of black men killed by “legal intervention”—that is to say, by cops. The figure is incomplete because of a lack of national reporting requirements, and it says nothing about the circumstances of the killings or the race of the officers involved. But it gives a sense of the scope of the problem.

By contrast, in that same year, 6,739 black men were murdered, overwhelmingly by young men like themselves. Since 2001, even as rates of violent crime have dropped dramatically, more than 90,000 black men in the U.S. have been killed by other black men. With fatalities on this scale, the term epidemic is not a metaphor. Every year, the casualty count of black-on-black crime is twice that of the death toll of 9/11.
And when they do say something, it's generally "This is the fault of white people!"  Because when people of integrity DO say "Stop bitching about white people, we're killing each other", they get called race traitors and such by the people who live by grievance-mongering.

Ah, when the progzis take another bite of their own...

There was an awards show for music videos the other night, it seems.  And one celebritute got pissed at another and was rather loud about it.  And Salon, apparently thinking its chops as a good leftist "We're one of the sensitive ones!" site would protect it, used what's apparently ANOTHER word that now has racist meaning, and is now running and hiding because the other leftists crapped their keyboards in outrage.


It appears, when they're not home-making machine guns and shotgun revolvers, the Brazilians will modify anything else at hand.


An opinion on the tactical reload. 
He doesn't like it.


But c’mon, people. We’re dealing with reality here. Where are the Kleenex boxes, the alarm clocks, the bottles of ibuprofen, the glasses of water, the heaps of books, the midnight snack foods? Where are the bedside pistol or shotgun, the dog’s blankie and toys, the fuzzy slippers, and the laid-out clothes for tomorrow?

Yeah. In the picture, they’re in the drawers or in the absolutely gigantic closet that’s hidden behind the elegant and pricy shoji screen. Or they’ve been moved to some other room that’s heaped floor-to-ceiling with junk. In reality? Who has time to go hiding all their “necessaries”?


Bayou Renaissance Man on some of the problems with/about LE; read it.  Here's a taste:
Answer me this:  how are we supposed to have any respect at all for law enforcement officers (or their agencies) who engage in these shenanigans?
I suspect this is a major part of the problem with certain elements of society who resent, distrust and fear law enforcement.  Some are just plain criminal, and deserve no consideration.  Others . . . no, others have a real problem.  They've been treated so badly, for so long, that they've lost sight of the fact that the law is there for a reason.  They see it - and those who enforce it - as more of a burden, more of a threat, than a blessing to society.  In time, they come to see peace officers as active enemies . . . and they respond accordingly.

No, Officer Unfriendly, you CAN'T get away with this

What's especially significant about both of these cases is that they allowed lawsuits against the police officers themselves to proceed. The court decided that the officers did not qualify for immunity because the rights they violated were clearly established at the time of the arrests. Cops who continue to mistakenly believe they have a right not to be recorded while on duty should understand that they cannot hide behind their real or professed ignorance of what the Constitution requires.
Now the same thing needs to be done to prosecutors involved in such.

More on the subject here, and I like the sound of this:
In order to make sure that both the public and police realize the greatest benefits from body-cams, however, a number of policies need to be implemented.

For example, police officers should be subject to stiff disciplinary sanctions if they fail to turn their cameras on each time they interact with the public. In addition, items obtained during an unrecorded encounter should be deemed a violation of the subject's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure and excluded as evidence, unless there were extenuating circumstances, such as a broken camera. Similarly, failure to record an incident for which a patrolman is accused of misconduct should create a presumption against that officer.



Why are so many leftists such violent and anti-free speech bastards?
To Emma Howland-Bolton:
My name is Jonathan Taylor. I am the founder and publisher of A Voice for Male Students, the leading Men’s Human Rights website for men and boys in education. I note – as is widely available on public record – that you are a teacher in Detroit. From one teacher to another, greetings.

I am writing to call upon you to take an opportunity to enhance the credibility of your protest. In summary, you have been heavily invested in organizing a protest that has included threats of violence and death against organizers, attendees and hosts of the upcoming conference at the Double Tree hotel in Detroit. Indeed, these threats of violence and death have become so pervasive and severe that the hotel is now requiring an entire squadron of police to station themselves at the premises for 24 hour-a-day security for three days straight so that people cannot be killed for simply listening to academics and advocates speak at a conference.

Looks like Gov. Howler has some worries on his mind

MORE worries.
With the April 15 deadline for gun registration under the SAFE Act fast approaching, estimates indicate over 90 percent of gun owners have yet to comply. 

Making matters worse for elected officials--and Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) in particular--is the fact that many law enforcement officers at various levels have openly stated that they will not enforce SAFE Act requirements.
Imagine that at a press conference: "Governor, how do the State Police feel about being ordered to jail people for this?  Especially since so many sheriffs will not cooperate?  And how many people are you willing to see in prison for this?"

Nice followup: "Has it been considered that if the State Police, and any sheriffs who are willing to enforce SAFE act, raid houses that someone is get going to get killed?"

In January of this year The Oneida Daily Dispatch reported that Assemblyman Bill Nojay (R-Pittsford) suggested that law enforcement is not going to be eager to go after those who refuse to comply: "The rank and file troopers don't want anything to do with it. [And] I don't know of a single sheriff upstate who is going to enforce it."

Nojay continued: "If you don't have the troopers and you don't have the sheriffs, who have you got? You've got Andrew Cuomo pounding on the table in Albany."
Wonder how the brass in the State Police are thinking about this?  There's always some people who'll do anything as long as they have orders to cover their ass; there's also a bunch of guys who A: don't think this is a good idea and B: wonder how they'll do if most of the local population is pissed at them for putting Mr. James and Ms. Jones in jail for not registering the gun they've owned for years.

Speaking of the EffingBI actually doing something,

this had to shock a bunch of the Usual Suspects:
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled several Washington, D.C.-based family organizations as "hate groups" for favoring traditional marriage, has been dumped as a "resource" on the FBI's Hate Crime Web page, a significant rejection of the influential legal group.

The Web page scrubbing, which also included eliminating the Anti-Defamation League, was not announced and came in the last month after 15 family groups pressed Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey to stop endorsing a group -- SPLC -- that inspired a recent case of domestic terrorism at the Family Research Council.
Be is said that this- especially the SPLC- should've happened a LONG time ago; so, what's happened that it now has?  Just what's putting pressure on the EffingBI to act like it actually cares about facts and law enforcement instead of acting as part of the Praetorian Guard?

Some of Sen. Yee's 'We must do something about guns!' tweets Updated!

over here.

"Thank you @PiersMorgan for your commitment and passion to ending gun violence. We must never forget Sandy Hook."-Arms trafficker @LelandYee—
Adrian Lopez (@PaladinZilch) March 27, 2014

“@LelandYee: A year after Sandy Hook, let us recommit ourselves to working towards a safer society for all of us.” thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/03/daniel…—
No Compromise (@DanPowell80) March 27, 2014

Too damn funny: "@LelandYee: A year after Sandy Hook, let us recommit ourselves to working towards a safer society for all of us.”—
eyedoc11 (@EyeDoc11) March 27, 2014

Ah, the tears that must be falling!  To have a good progressive gun bigot caught trafficking in illegal arms...

Speaking of:

Makes you wonder just how long he's had these connections, and what else he may have been doing, doesn't it?

A 137-page criminal complaint charges 26 people -- including Yee and Chow -- with a panoply of crimes, including firearms trafficking, money laundering, murder-for-hire, drug distribution, trafficking in contraband cigarettes, and honest services fraud.
Ah, that's it!  He was associated with CIGARETTE SMUGGLING, the evil bastard!

Had a comment on the previous post that included
...Just within the last few days news of the feebs hitting a bunch of Dems for gun running, fraud, corruption, etc. My first thought was "whose toes did they manage to step on"?

It's not like the feds give a damn about crime as long as the criminals are comrades in good standing.
So it's seemed.  So,  did they piss off the administration somehow?  Or is the EffingBI and DoJ actually acting like LE organizations to try and take off some of the heat from their other crap?
Yes, trust in both organizations is rather low lately.

Update:
Interesting people Yee is connected with:
Yee masterminded a complex scheme to import illegal weapons: “Keith Jackson [a political consultant who worked as Yee's fundraiser] told [an agent] that Senator Yee had a contact who deals in arms trafficking. This purported arms dealer was later identified. Jackson requested [a campaign donation] on behalf of Senator Yee, for Senator Yee to facilitate a meeting with arms dealer with the intent of [the agent] to purportedly purchase a large number of weapons to be imported through the Port of Newark, New Jersey. During a meeting [...] Senator Yee discussed certain details of the specific types of weapons [the agent] was interested in buying and importing.”
Yee had connection with Filipino rebel groups: ”Keith Jackson advised that Senator Yee had an unidentified Filipino associate who was supplying ‘heavy’ weapons to rebel groups in the Philippines.”
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These rebel groups:

Including Muslim terrorists: “According to Senator Yee, Mindanao was largely population by Muslim rebel groups who were fighting the federal government. Yee continued by saying the Muslim rebels had no problem ‘kidnapping individuals, killing individuals, and extorting them for ransom.’”

And yet he wanted to arm them, while disarming law-abiding Americans.

In specific the Moro Islamic Liberation Front: “[The agent] asked about the major Muslim organizations in the Mindanao region of the Philippines. Senator Yee responded by saying ‘M.I.L.F.’”

Yee apparently wasn’t making up his arms dealer. It’s a real person. A real Russian person.

And, Russian arms dealers: “According to Senator Yee, the arms dealer source the weapons from Russia.”

Expect moose and squirrel to appear at any time with more evidence.

Some thoughts on why NYPD can't shoot

Some food for thought.
Bob is right.  The NYPD definitely has a training problem, but the problem runs much more deeply.  In fact, this is an abject lesson in the damage socialism causes, specifically, when socialist do-gooders try to help people, they virtually always cause enormous harm.
I'd argue with the 'It's hard to shoot revolvers accurately' stuff; I've known far too many people who can.  Big factor there is training; and that may be the biggest problem of all here.

The triggers are a major factor, but are not entirely to blame.  The NYPD apparently does not teach the Weaver stance, or at least, does not train in it to any standard of proficiency.  Its internal documents admit that only about half of officers involved in shootings fired with any kind of two-handed grip.  As late as 1992, overall officer hit potential was only 17%, and only 28% at 3 yards–9 feet–and closer.
If this is true, then everybody involved in training needs their ass kicked.  C'mon, do you know ANYBODY currently teaching defensive handgunning who doesn't teach some kind of two-handed hold?

I'll throw in, lots of agencies have taken care of #4 by issuing practice ammo either equivalent to or same as carry ammo for precisely that reason.  Which really adds to the budget; the good hollowpoints are expensive.  And I fear that's one reason lots of agencies only qualify once or twice a year, to keep the cost down.

First, I want to know the whole story

about this before making a statement other than 'If the troopers did screw the pooch this badly, they need their ass handed to them.'

Second, far as I know every OHP unit has a camera; I think there's a mike on the officer as well.  So where's the recordings right now?

Back to the "Don't talk to the police" matter

From over at Sipsey:

A friend sent me the following links that were posted on the NFAOA "Resources" page several years ago along with this comment:

(I)t is worth resurrecting for a number of reasons. I think the most salient derives from the 2010 article that I've attached, where folks get on lists via (data mining) and classified more or less as criminals without reasonable suspicion being established. Another reason is the profound political discomfort that has resulted from Edward Snowden's disclosures about the extent of domestic spying by the NFA--the fact that the Congress was not aware or read into some of the activities is having repercussions. The reason is that the misuse of "mined" data is a widespread hazard that potentially impacts millions of law-abiding people.

I am taking the time to send you this video AND the attached article, because the latter is highly relevant in view of the Snowden disclosures, and the former is one of the most unusual pieces of work that I have ever seen regarding the issue of talking with the police. Possibly the attorneys on this message won't be surprised by the disclosures in the video, I'm not sure; however, I think they are worth passing along. All this stuff is in the public domain, so feel free to share. And with respect, the video is will worth taking a few minutes to watch.

Introduction from the NFAOA page:

Talking to the Police by Professor James Duane

It is well known that virtually all attorneys will advise their clients not to talk to the police, but it is rare to hear detailed, lengthy explanations why this is advisable by an attorney, and even rare to hear it from a police officer. In this taped video presentation, both a licensed attorney and a sworn police officer discuss why talking with the police isn't advisable, even for people who are wholly innocent of a crime which they may be suspected of committing. This video discusses how the police will seize upon a minor discrepancy or circumstantial fact unrelated to a crime, to ensnare an innocent person into a situation in which the police are able to create doubt of innocence. In these circumstances, the police are not your friend; they want to solve a crime. Anybody who has spent any time (for example) reading the hundreds of analyses of firearms cases by James Bardwell cannot help but be struck by the significant number of times that at the time ATF first approached the now-convicted defendant, the now-convicted defendant didn't have a legal problem. What happened is that the now-convicted defendant couldn't keep his mouth shut and talked himself into a violation of the law.