- Obama legislating by Executive fiat.
- FIAT: an arbitrary decree or pronouncement, especially by a person or group of persons having absolute authority to enforce it: The king ruled by fiat.
- The people spoke: No new anti 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] amendment legislation
- The congress spoke: No new anti 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] amendment legislation
- Obama spoke: I don’t care with congress or the majority of people in America want, I know best.
- Obama uses executive power to usurp the power of congress and bypass congress and enact anti 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] amendment legislations and rules.
- Obama is proposing a solution that is desperately in search of a problem.
- This is the same administration and agency that brought us “Fast and Furious” and made the USA the largest arms supplier to Mexican and central American drug cartels in known history.
- This is a clearly malicious act from the Obama/Biden/Holder administration. They are angry that the people and congress would not ban gusn in early 2013 and they are striking at the most unprotected and law abiding segment of firearms owners in the world!
- Texas has recently passed laws to allow hunting game animals with silencers.
- Texas legalized Hunting with silencers on September 1, 2012.
- This new rule is a direct attempt to subvert the will of Texans and Texas lawmakers
- This new rule will essentially make it impossible for Texans to exercise the rights recently given them by the Texas legislature because Texans will no longer by ABLE to purchase silencers if their CLEOs refuse to sign their forms.
- Criminals
- Prohibited persons Using the trust/Corporations to get firearms
- Very small percentage of trusts or corporations have felons as settlors, trustees or employees
- Very small number of prohibited persons will go through the lengthy process to legally obtain a NFA regulated item
- Regular (title I) Firearms: subject the person signing the 4473 to criminal background checks. The person signing the 4473 has the same legal obligation as the Settlor, trustees and beneficiaries of a trust and the officers and employees of a corporation to ensure that a criminal does not possess the firearms owned by that individual or entity.
- Over 27,000 silencers are purchased annually
- You never hear of one being used in a crime
- Same with machineguns and short barrel rifles, destructive devices and other items that are regulated by the NFA.
- Prevents hearing damage:
- Hearing protection for shooters.
- Silencers protect the hearing of both the person shooting and persons nearby
- Even with hearing protection being worn, shooters hearing may be damaged. Bystanders near persons shooting may have their hearing permanently damaged.
- The use of silencers significantly reduces hearing loss for those adults and children participating in shooting sports.
- Noise signature reduction
- SELF DEFENSE:
- God forbid that I am involved in a self defense situation in my home, with my wife and children at my home with my dogs, but shooting a pistol or rifle in my home unsuppressed WILL cause permanent hearing damage to everyone around.
- My two boys(2 & 4 years old), my wife and my dog would all suffer permanent hearing damage if I had to discharge a firearm to save their life or my life inside my home.
- A silenced firearm would greatly reduce the possibility and Amount of hearing loss from this unfortunate situation.
- Hunting:
- Protects the hearing of the hunters
- Protects other hunters by allowing greater situational awareness.
- The hunter does not have to wear hearing protection so he is more aware of the surrounding situation and may hear other hunters thereby reducing accidents
- The hunter will suffer less hearing loss over a lifetime and will be more aware of the surrounding situation as he or she ages.
- Silenced firearms are much less likely to disturb people, livestock, or wildlife that are in close proximity to the shooting facility or location.
- Greatly lessons the noise pollution on the environment.
- Texas has recently passed laws to allow hunting game animals with silencers.
- Texas legalized Hunting with silencers on September 1, 2012.
- This new rule is a direct attempt to subvert the will of Texans and Texas lawmakers
- This new rule will essentially make it impossible for Texans to exercise the rights recently given them by the Texas legislature because Texans will no longer by ABLE to purchase silencers if their CLEOs refuse to sign their forms.
- Predator and Pest Eradication
- Texas is being overrun with wild hogs.
- They cause uncounted amounts of economic and environmental damage each year
- Silencers and Short Barrel rifles are important for hog and predator control
- Training new shooters
- Training safety
- Protects new shooters hearing
- Ensures accuracy of communication with new shooters while in a teaching environment
- Shooting ranges public and private
- Silencers greatly reduce the noise impact of a shooting range on its surrounding environment.
- Silencers Protect the employee’s hearing and the customer’s hearing.
- Silencers generally increase the accuracy of a host firearm.
- Silencers generally reduce recoil and eliminating up to 90% of the muzzle signature.
- Allows the Shooter to concentrate on breath control and trigger pull because they are not subjected to the fatigue and distraction of a deafening, bright, muzzle report.
- Beginning shooters are less likely to be intimidated when introduced to the shooting sports with a silenced firearm.
- Beginning shooters are able to easily hear instructions given to them by trainers as the report of a host firearm is reduced to below the OSHA guideline level for hearing damage.
- SELF DEFENSE:
- Disabled shooters
- Short barrel rifles: Some shooters have lost upper body strength due to wounds and /or disease. These shooters CANNOT participate in the shooting sports or use weapons for self defense can't manage a longer barrel and extra weight of a title I rifle with a 16” barrel.
- Recoil reduction: Silencers reduce recoil.
- CLEO Sign off:
- CLEO:
- Sheriff
- Chief of Police
- District Attorney
- County and District Court Judges
- NOT Constables
- CLEO won't sign in most counties
- The simple fact is that MOST CLEOS in the stte of Texas (and most other states) will not sign a form 4 even now.
- Most refuse to sign for political reasons.
- They state that if a person they signed a form 1 or form 4 for used the NFA regulated item in a crime it would look bad for them.
- It would be used against them in an election campaign.
- If they are chiefs of police departments, they state that if an item that they signed for was used in a criminal act that it would be used against the person that appointed/Hired them at the next election.
- They also cite additional Administrative reasons for refusing to sign a form 1 or a form 4
- Additional administrative burden.
- Use of administrative staff for non-Law enforcement duties
- Use of Law enforcement staff for non-law enforcement duties
- Meeting with the applicant (now applicants on trusts and corporations)
- Doing background checks on each applicant to ensure the person providing the fingerprint cards and photographs is actually the person standing before them
- Additional Record Keeping: Keeping track of the persons and entities that they signed for.
- Many if not all of these SLEOs believe that
- Civilians should not own items that are regulated by the NFA
- Items regulated by the NFA are illegal for civilians to own.
- Only Law enforcement agencies should possess items regulated by the NFA
- They refuse to sign forms because they are putting items that may be used against their officers into NON-Law enforcement officer hands (i.e. the hands of mere civilians)
- The new rules place an even heavier burden on law enforcement than the current rule because each member of a trust or corporate entity would have to seek a CLEO sign off from his local CLEO
- CLEO: