There’s a guy down in Texas who’s my kind of guy. He’s 73 years old and still trying to make a living in the gun business. I’m 76 years old, so this guy’s in my league when it comes to sticking around in Gun-nut Nation until you croak.
The guy’s name is William Scott Simms, and he lives in McAllen, TX, which is all part of the problem. Because McAllen happens to be located right smack dab next to the ol’ Rio Grande, which means that the town’s southern border happens to be Mexico. Which means you just walk down ol’ South Depot Road a bit, hop across the railroad tracks and you’re in the land of tortillas and fried beans.
You’re also in the land where Americans have been selling machine guns that allegedly fetch a better price over there than over here, at least this is what the U. S. Government is saying is the reason they arrested ol’ boy Billy Simms. He was indicted back in May for getting’ ready to take eleven machine guns that he manufactured and sell them south of the border for – ready? – $10,000 apiece!
That’s a hundred grand for sittin’ in the kitchen, slapping together some plastic and metal parts that you can buy online for a couple of hundred bucks, then plopping a full-auto sear into the metal band above the trigger, attaching the sear to a loading spring and you’re good to go. In case you’re interested folks, I just told you how to make a machine gun.
Billy Boy Simms was not only charged with the possession of ‘unregistered’ machine guns, which means the guns didn’t have serial numbers, which means they are so-called ‘ghost guns,’ he is also charged with exporting these guns to Mexico, which is a violation of export laws.
As to the fact that the guns didn’t have serial numbers, the DOJ press release says that “On April 8, President Biden issued executive orders specifically targeting the manufacturing and transfer of ghost guns.” Uh-oh. Our man Simms is now in real deep doo-doo because he’s going up against a regulatory system which finally is going to get rid of those ‘ghost’ guns.
Except the statement happens not to be true. Joe can issue all the executive orders he wants to issue about ghost guns or anything else, but if the order requires a change in the Federal code or the wording of any Federal law that defines the behavior of any government agency, such a change can only be made after a 90-day period which allows for the public to make comments about the new text has elapsed.
When it comes to illegally exporting guns to Mexico, the Federal Government has machine guns on the brain. You may recall that between 2006 and 2011, the ATF forced gun dealers in Arizona to make illegal sales of semi-automatic rifles which were then allegedly turned into full-auto guns in a car repair shop in Phoenix that would then be sold in Mexico as machine guns, i.e., the ‘Fast and Furious’ mess.
The whole thing turned out to be nonsense, not a single machine gun was ever found anywhere, and if the Republicans sitting on the Senate Judiciary Committee hadn’t been so ga-ga about using their investigation to embarrass Obama and instead done some clean-up of the ATF, maybe we’d actually have a government agency responsible for regulating the gun business that would get something done.
These days, everyone seems to have machine guns on the brain. The Associated Press just ran a story about how almost 2,000 military guns seem to have disappeared, including more than 1,000 rifles, all of which are full-auto guns. And here’s the headline: Some Stolen Military Guns Used in Violent Crimes.” Except if you actually read the story, you discover that a) we have some 2 million military guns sitting around so how could we not be missing a few, and b) the only military gun used in crimes is the Beretta M9 pistol, which is a semi-automatic gun.
Now how come I can’t seem to find the full-auto sear that I want to plop into my AR-15?
Jun 17, 2021 @ 11:18:29
Yep. That M9 Weapon ‘O War. I should feel guilty, I guess. Except its a far nicer gun that any of those cheap plastic pieces ‘o s**t that they are selling nowadays.
Jun 17, 2021 @ 23:23:03
Imagine all the Negligent Discharges Mike could have with an Automatic weapon…He could beat his already high record (7) with one pull of the trigger!!!
Jun 18, 2021 @ 06:26:23
I can hardly see what all the noise is about, stupid laws created an enterprise although technically illegal must have been very tempting. The only problem with the gutter press rubbish is that even machine guns are still lumps of metal.
They have no life of their own, they cannot fuel crime, They cannot make it easier. They may be accessible but so is everthing else. Accessible does not mean it will be used because it tempts or controls like a siren singing gun controls secret song.
These dangerous lunatics who believe guns are alive and can force, induce, make, coerce, tempt or any of the other stupid words they try to hide behind, get people to commit acts. As liars they make claims like gun violence. It’s deliberate to link the two in ignorant foolish peoples minds but it is proof that gun control claims guns are responsible. Even piling up to unrelated figures, a correlation they claim is proof of causality. When asked to show this causality they run like little girls and cannot answer Push them and all you will get is personal remarks as they try to shame you and belittle you.
Now anyone with two functioning brain cells can see causality is impossible. So gun control wants laws made based on their lies. Government and stooges get suckers into believing government can tell what you will do with a gun in the future. If they think without proof you will, you cannot buy one. What kind of fools are we? Have firearm owners ceased to think? They can do much better than that.
The only question that remains is why are gun control supporters such oppressive people willing to endanger public safety and others lives. It’s not rocket science to see the lie. Why are firearm owners not shutting these charlatans down? What is wrong with their organisations? Time to fix it.