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And looking at the definition of a machine gun, I believe the ATF may be correct. I watched a video a few months ago about the trigger where a guy was claiming that the ATF was wrong but his explanation seemed to fit the definition of a machine gun. It would be like a guy telling you that water is wet and he gave you a glass of Kool-Aid and saying this is not wet. The main point of that video was that the definition of a machine gun is firing more than one round with that single trigger pull. The guy then demonstrated using a weapon with that trigger and making it appear to fire on full auto. Then he defends the multiple rounds by saying it is not a single trigger pull. He goes on to describe it by saying that to make the trigger function as designed, you have to pull the trigger one time and hold it against the frame to make it work. That sure seems to sound like a machine gun. The defense of the trigger is that the trigger and the recoil of the gun forces your finger forward and with your continued backward pressure, firing another round. It is basically the trigger version of a bump stock. At least by this one guy’s video, he actually says something like you have to hold continuous pressure against the trigger. That would seem to fit the definition of one pull because the moment you take your finger slightly off of the trigger to allow it to reset, the automatic feature stops. I am not against the machine guns, I think the ruling in Miller on the NFA Is an incorrect ruling which I believe was overturned by Heller and later McDonald in the Supreme Court. No one has either questioned those rulings as they relate to Miller or they have not been able to get such a case in court. In the Supreme Court case of Miller, I believe they ruled that taxing machine gun was not taxing a constitutional right because the owning of firearms was not an independent right but the right of a militia. Under Heller and McDonald in fairly recent rulings, the Supreme Court ruled that owning a firearm was an independent right and had nothing to do with a militia. Those two rulings which seem to overturn Miller in my opinion, which is what makes the current machine gun laws legal.

If I read federal law correctly (and it has be a while), ATF gets to determine some definitions. This is a common practice in both state and federal law. It is impossible to convene Congress to determine everything that is ever done on a day to day basis. A legislature certainly has the authority to make laws but in many cases they simply do not want to do so. If Texas Parks and Wildlife Repartment wants to change the limit on deer or ducks next year, should the governor call a special legislative session and have representatives in Congress determine how many duck should be killed? That would be ludicrous but there has to be a law in place that allows the setting of limits. So what both state and federal congresses do is delegate that authority to some agency. Examples would be that the Texas Department of Transportation has the authority to set speed limits, the county judge can order evacuations for an emergency and TPWD can set limits and seasons on fish and game animals. So when it comes to federal firearm laws, I believe the United States Congress has allowed ATF to set definitions or if not a specific definition, a ruling on if something meets a definition. It would be legal for Congress to pass along that authority and again it is done and common many times on the state and federal levels. Within that authority however a court of appeals or the Congress that gave the authority, can overturn a decision of the agency. I believe in this case the ATF has the authority to determine if something fits the definition of a machine gun. It appears as though they have made a decision that the forced reset trigger is a machine gun. By definition of federal law, a machine gun is the actual weapon or at the parts that can convert a weapon into a machine gun. An example would be that if you have an auto sear to convert an AR15 to a full automatic, You can’t simply take it out of the weapon by popping a couple of pins and claiming you don’t have a machine gun as the police approach. The sear is the machine gun definition because that is what converts it. So in this case it appears as though the FRT has been determined by the ATF to be a machine gun. I believe that is within their authority. As the guy in the first post/video states, there is a current case contesting that definition. Great, that is in what courts are allowed to do. The guy in the first video also claims that the ATF’s ruling violates their own definition. That is his opinion and if the court agrees, that will become the final ruling. But, he is just stating an opinion because apparently it is in the lawful appeals process. Whether someone likes or dislikes the ATF ruling, Congress has given ATF that authority. Under that authority I believe they can likely seize an item that is a felony at the moment. The only ways to legally stop that immediately in my opinion is an act of Congress (which simply will not happen), the US Department of Justice issue an order to an agency under their authority, the ATF, to not act (which simply will not happen) or a court stepping in and issuing a stay against enforcing that law/definition. My opinion for now is that the ATF has the authority to do what some claim they are about to do.

I think you’re on the wrong thread…… 😆

Probably but they apparently have to wait 10 days ….

Hiawatha was a Mohawk……

I considered it but kind of wanted to stay out of politics in that group.

I can answer that from reading this forum and the opinions of some, certainly not all or maybe not even a majority. I brought up the fact that Larry Neumann from Nederland was an outsider with no head coaching experience and looking for success. I compare that to Dan Hooks who was an outsider (not from the community) with no head coaching experience. As was pointed out to me in a follow-up opinion, yes but Dan Hooks was not an outsider. It was true that he was not from WOS but…. he had coached under the WOS system as an assistant and coordinator. That was unlike Neumann who came from a different school. Using that exact same logic, Hickman just like Hooks, has no head coaching experience but has been coaching at WOS and knew the current system. Also using that logic, they could eliminate everybody but Foreman (?). I am looking at that list and without knowing the peoples reputations, I see coaches from smaller schools even than WOS perhaps and except for the last guy on the list, have a combined won loss record of something like 88-169. It appears as though you could eliminate all but two or three people from just the resumes. I am just giving an opinion. I’m on the outside and don’t really care. It just seems to be an idea in some peoples’ opinions that there had to be something surreptitious or evil behind the scenes because their choice was not chosen. Without going any deeper than just looking at the resumes, I see three people that I would choose and all of them, at least by those resumes, appear to be good choices. The superintendent chose one of those three.

So they are continuing to push forward with the vaccine mandate for big businesses. They are just going through the process rather than using the Emergency clause.…. Since the emergency clause issue has not been settled in court, I think the Biden administration is putting an end to a ruling that could have any effect in the future (claimed) emergency situations. It is certainly not a philosophical change but rather a, let’s drop this now so we can live to fight another day.

Chocolate……

Maybe I am wrong and I’m sure someone will correct me if I am. I think Dan Hooks, Larry Neumann and Brandon Faircloth all were assistants only before being named head coach at WOS, Nederland and a PNG. That is a fairly long track record of some of the winningest coaches in this area in recent years. I think all three are the winningest coach in each school’s history and all coached against each other. With Hooks and Neumann, I believe it was their only head coaching job. They did not come from somewhere else as a head coach and never moved on to somewhere else. Until yesterday that was true of Faircloth. Much talk is made of bringing in some mythical head coach with a long résumé but that may not always be the right answer.

It has the same effect on me……

To be fair, I have hardly seen anyone defend Trump’s tweets. To it contrary most people say they wish he would stop the tweets as he would make life a lot easier and get more votes. They often make jokes about Trump’s big faux pas is “mean tweets” and “orange man bad” but that is hardly an endorsement or “great tweet” comment. Probably 97.65% of Trump supporters simply point out that his big transgressions are tweets and over the top embellished statements. I have not seen a lot of high-fiving over a Trump tweet.

But he’s not an outsider……

The comedy of the whole situation is the rationale behind BLM‘s claim. They want the facts to come out before decision is made on whether something is right or wrong when an officer was shot. I don’t agree with them completely but they do make a somewhat valid point. The problem with this information coming from BLM is they absolutely in the ultimate act of hypocrisy, never wait for facts to come out when a black person is killed by the police. From the moment a black person is pronounced deceased, they KNOW that the officer is wrong and the protest start almost immediately. It is completely disingenuous and ludicrous to immediately claim that a police officer is guilty without knowing any facts but then turn around and say that if an officer is the victim, we need to see what happened before for judgment is made.

I think maybe Biden was correct this time. The Fox reporter was completely wrong in the situation. Peter Doocy did not pick up the instructions going into the news conference and messed up and went off script. He asked Biden a real question. Totally unacceptable!!!

Well, he did not do it in a tweet…..

NOT EEEE NUFFF!!!

I heard he was the WOS first choice but he knew the PNG job was coming up and….

I would imagine it will be a good turnout, maybe not even to protest but just to hear what is happening and see who votes yes or no. I would actually expect that no matter who the coach is going to be.

That would imply that there are rumors out there that are not true. Surely that is not correct…..

Apparently 1984 went from being basically a textbook for most high school students to, I’m sorry young adults but you can’t handle this fiction… Because it might be (is) coming true.

As opposed than a dyed in the wool Foreman supporter?

Is that depending on Biden not on the ballot? If Biden decides to run, is the rest of the Democratic Party going to choose anybody but Biden?

KY HB91 constitutional amendment only allows KY to pass an abortion/anti-abortion law…. which they did in 2018. I think that is it one of the United States Supreme Court is debating. If the United States of Supreme Court upholds the Kentucky 11 week abortion ban as lawful under the United States Constitution, a person in Kentucky could always come back and contest the 11 week ban under the state constitution. HB91 would nullify any such Kentucky Constitution question because their Constitution says under HB91 that abortion is not a right. The Texas law is an entirely different ball game.

Again, hopefully the Court will overturn this disastrous Texas law but uphold the Kentucky law as a means to give states more authority.