Abolish the NFA, the GCA and the ATF right NOW

Royce has already made his distrust for the Constitutionally ignorant Robert Cekada known, and he builds on that to make the case for abolishment for all federal gun control laws and the vile agency (ATF) that unconstitutionally regulates, via infringements, our right to keep and bear arms.

Cekada, like the agency he heads, cannot be trusted, and the rules they claim to be rolling back are not exactly being done away with, and certain definitions, like "engaged in the business", are being left in place. The ATF, which is trying to survive, is not the only problem, it's also the reason they exist in the first place; to enforce gun control laws that the government was forbidden to pass in the first place.

Hit the link below to sign the petition to abolish them all.

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Transcript

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That means a lot to me, and I just want to say thank you. All right? Now, it seems that we the
people have become afflicted with a national epidemic, so to speak, of Stockholm Syndrome when it
comes to the ATF and the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act of 1968.
We've kind of just... Well, you know, Stockholm Syndrome is kind of where the captive begins to
sympathize with the captor. A lot of people in this country are kind of in that place,
it seems. Oh, we just got to go along with it. Just comply.
We won't get hurt. And, you know, the usual sentiments as such. Me,
I'm just not one to go along with anything like that. If it's wrong, it's wrong, and I'll continue
to say it's wrong, and I'll continue to resist it as long as it is in the wrong.
Because, and yes, I'm kind of, this is the follow-up from the last episode where I told you I'd be
making the case for banishing and abolishing the ATF and to literally burn it down to the ground
and scatter the ashes to the four winds. Because we've been sold a pig in a poke. We really have.
And what I mean by that is this criminal agency, which exists primarily to enforce,
for lack of a better term, flagrantly unconstitutional laws, and is filled with literal domestic
enemies who seem to revel in ruining the lives of innocent Americans and assaulting the security of
our free state. is somehow necessary for public safety. And you heard Robert Cicada,
what I said about him in the last episode, where he said, no,
if you abolish us, oh, that's not going to be good for the communities that we're working in,
or whatever he said. In other words, without us, public safety will be hampered.
Bull fertilizer. That's never true. Here's the problem with the ATF.
Countless lives have been literally destroyed by the belligerent enforcement of these
constitutionally repugnant laws they enforce. Yeah, I'm talking about the badged up filth that
enforces them from their agency. This is... come to be something we're told we just have to accept.
And so because this gang of domestic enemies has now become so entrenched in our lives and the free
exercise of our God-given right to keep and bear arms, we settled into compliance mode,
you know, which is exactly where they want us to be. And we exercise what little of our rights we
have left and hoping to not be bothered by these worthless, dangerous swine as we,
uh, attempt to navigate the maze and patchwork of all the illegal laws and rules they propose and
enforce. And we, the people, we, the sensible people, the constitutionally sensible people,
call these laws what they are, and that is unlawful infringements and willful assaults against the
security of the people of the United States and our freedom.
I'm going to go... and make a bold claim here. I'm sure I'm going to get hate mail from some of you
police officers that work closely with the Alpha Tango Foxtrot, and these are great guys.
They're some of the most professional, upstanding people. I don't give a crap. Their agency exists
to infringe the rights of the people to keep and bear arms. That is what they do.
That is their main mission. You understand that, right? Every ATF agent is a quintessential trader.
They accept money, our tax dollars that's taken from us for all intents and purposes at gunpoint,
because try not paying your taxes, see what happens. People with guns will come pay you a visit,
or they'll seize your bank accounts, or both. But they're given our tax dollars in exchange for
wielding. unchecked power and violence upon their fellow citizens and all in the name of public
safety. Yes, public safety. And without the ATF, oh, Robert Cicada believes we would not have
public safety. Well, little lying Bobby Cicada is full of crap.
Oh, he loves to put that little do-gooder smile on his face and just, you know,
and the things he says. We're not against the Second Amendment. You're not. Your agency exists to
regulate it unlawfully, unconstitutionally. How can you sit there and tell me we're not against the
Second Amendment when you tell us we can't have certain arms that you and your agents carry, Bobby?
Your agents and you, Bobby, y'all don't pause. to ascertain whether or not you're doing the right
thing, and you have no moral compulsion to honor your empty little oath to uphold and defend the
supreme law, y'all just simply sign on for the $85,000 a year average annual salary,
which climbs annually, of course, and you blindly follow the orders of your constitution-hating
superiors without any questions at all. And because...
ATF's agents, because their true allegiance as a whole is to their criminally-minded agency in
whatever political party happens to be in control in Washington, D.C. at the time, they
consistently align their actions and their policies with that administration regardless.
of what the Constitution plainly says. The Constitution is very plain.
You don't have to be a scholar to be able to read it and understand it. It is uber plain.
It couldn't be any more plain than the nose on your face when you look in the mirror. So with that
in mind, I have become absolutely disgusted beyond any measurable quantity.
of so many within the pro-Second Amendment community that tell me and my fellow patriots that we
have to just trust the process and trust that the ATF is going to be kinder and gentler to us now,
and we must show respect to these traitors and show respect to their repulsive badges and to their
abhorrent, vile, tyrannical rules.
Rules that change with the wind. And the definitions of those rules and simple words.
Changes with the wind. I not only have no respect for any ATF agent,
but I also harbor a pure, seething contempt for every one of them as a literal domestic enemy of
the Constitution, every last one of them. Why? Well,
because of their hatred and their utter contemptuous disregard for our Constitution and their
constant warfare against it. You know, I have more respect for members of the Taliban and members
of ISIS, because at least they openly proclaim themselves to be our enemies.
as opposed to ATF agents who enjoy all the benefits of U.S. citizenship while simultaneously
warring against their fellow citizens and their blood-bought rights and all in the name of,
there it is again, public safety. Now, many gun owners and retailers have begun to take the ATF at
their utterly unreliable word that their rescinding Biden-era issues like the definition of
engaged in the business and the criteria for that. But that's not correct.
The ATF lied, and I told you so. And here's the proof in an article by Jose Nino writing for Ammo
Land. And in this, he talks about how GOA, Gun Owners of America,
and if you're not a member, become one today. They are warning that the ATF's gun dealer rule
rollback, alleged rollback, is still going to leave gun owners exposed.
How do you like that? Here's the article. The ATF's proposed rollback of the Biden administration's
quote-unquote engaged in the business rule would eliminate its formal presumptions against gun
owners, but it would not provide the clean break many expected. Published in the Federal Register
on May 6th, the proposal would remove the provisions that presumed certain firearm sales
constituted unlicensed dealing. By the way, that's what they shot and killed Brian Malinowski and
his home over. They claimed he was an unlicensed dealer. Oh, you know what that means,
right? That means if you don't take the trouble to get a license from this criminal agency,
they have the right to kick your door in and shoot you in the head, like they did to Brian
Malinowski. It would also discard Biden-era restrictions on what qualifies as a personal
collection. Well, I've got news for you. I work for a man who literally has the largest personal
gun collection on the planet. Yeah. No, I'm not going to mention his name,
but he has an incredible collection.
I've seen it a couple of times. Wow. It's amazing. Not to mention the fact he has a tank
collection, but what is it any of the ATF's business if someone has a large gun collection and they
sell some of their guns? Where and why does it make sense?
that they must get a license first before selling off any of their collection.
It would also discard Biden-era restrictions on what qualifies as a personal collection.
At the same time, ATF says conduct previously covered by those presumptions,
listen, may still be considered circumstantial evidence when determining whether someone is dealing
firearms without a license. Please tell me. What's changed?
How do you like that? Oh, no, they're rolling that back. No, they're not. They lied,
and too many people believed it. That distinction is now drawing opposition from Gun Owners of
America, one of the plaintiffs that secured the nationwide vacature of the Biden rule in Texas
versus ATF on June 12th. GOA argues that removing the presumptions...
preserving some of the agency's underlying enforcement theories, leaves gun owners exposed to
another round of regulatory abuse. I, for one, am sick of being abused by federal agencies,
whether that be the IRS or the ATF or any of them. They don't have the right to abuse us,
and we are not required by any sense of constitutionality to sit here and put up with it.
There's a Second Amendment for a reason.
GOA warned in a June 29th action alert. They said ATF has proposed a replacement rule.
Yeah, they don't just want to do away with the old one. No, here's a replacement. Is it really?
Proposed a replacement rule that claims to rescind the Biden rule,
but in reality keeps key parts of its legal framework in place. Told you. I freaking told you.
I warned you. I hate being right. I'm sick of being right. But I know these scumbags like the back
of my hand. There's two groups of people that I can easily figure out.
And that's these people right here, the ATF and these federal bureaucrats and Democrat communists.
Once you learn how they think, you will see the patterns everywhere, every time, in everything they
do and say. In an action alert, the GOA said the initial rule,
quote, tried to twist the bipartisan Safer Communities Act to impose backdoor universal background
checks by redefining who counts as a dealer. Wow,
did you catch that? It then flagged, that the replacement, quote,
claims to rescind the Biden rule, but in reality keeps key parts of its legal framework in place
and leaves gun owners exposed. The objection rests on an admission the ATF makes openly while the
agency vows to drop... handful of Biden's presumptions,
and pare back a few definitions, it states outright that, quote, some sections of the Biden rule
will be retained. What was the Biden rule? Zero tolerance.
I warned you. I told you. Bob Cicada is the smiling little fox being led into the hen house by pro
-Second Amendment advocates and thinking he's the greatest thing since sliced bread. And he's going
to make relations between the ATF and the Second Amendment also much sweeter and better.
Yeah.
To GOA, that means the real threat never went anywhere, because it didn't.
ATF, they said, still treats everyday behavior by gun owners as suspicious.
Keeping a simple list of your firearms. reselling the same model within a short window,
or even just offering to sell a firearm, can be used as evidence that you are engaged in the
business without a license. How many of y'all keep a record of your firearms?
Oh, I do. Most of y'all probably do. Keep that somewhere where the ATF can never find it.
Keep it at somebody else's home. store it on the cloud somewhere where it takes a password to get
to it. These people are scum. They're trash. Don't think because they put smiles on their faces now
that they wouldn't kill you over the slightest little thing. It pressed further,
noting that, quote,
can be enough evidence to prosecute law-abiding gun owners as illegal firearms traffickers.
You heard that right. Despite the court's ruling and the clear limits Congress placed in the law.
Oh, but Bobby Cicada, he's supposed to be such a pro-Second Amendment director of the ATF who only
wants to go after bad guys and leave law-abiding gun owners alone, huh?
Bull fertilizer. He is the smiling little fox, the constitutionally dyslexic little fox,
who's being let into the henhouse and going, oh, look, we're all friends now.
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We're making the case for the abolition of the ATF. It is a constitutionally unlawful agency.
They have no constitutional right to actually exist because their main purpose and mission is to
regulate our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. I'm going to be reading and taking
excerpts from an article written by the Texas Gun Rights staff.
And all of you in Texas, Wayne, Jake, Todd, Tim.
The others, I can't remember the rest of y'all out there, but y'all,
I hope, are members of Texas Gun Rights. These guys have their head on straight when it comes to
sentiments regarding the Alpha Tango Foxtrot. And they are also,
along with GOA, flat-out warning us that this ATF reform is a trap,
and gun owners should not fall for it. And that's the title of this article by Texas Gun Rights.
Google Texas Gun Rights. If you live in Texas, sign up. If you would just like to support them,
you don't have to live in Texas, I don't think. I don't know, but check them out.
Maybe you can help them out. I really do believe these guys are really on the ball,
and they are absolutely nth degree Second Amendment, okay? So here's the article.
ATF reform is a trap, and gun owners should not fall for it. The Senate just confirmed ATF Director
Robert Cicada to lead the agency permanently, and within hours,
he and Attorney General Todd Blanche were already moving to save it. Okay, get this now.
The idea is to save the agency. Remember I mentioned this in the last episode.
They know that the general sentiment is against them. If you don't believe me,
follow them on Farcebook. You'll probably see some comments from me whenever they post something.
They'll post some braggadocious reel talking about how wonderful they are and all the bad guys
they've locked up. And they just locked up a bunch of bad guys in South Florida, blah, blah,
blah. They caught them gun trafficking. Oh, I tell you, the comments are hilarious.
If for no other reason, follow them just for the comments on all of their idiotic posts.
Their self-aggrandizing posts, anyway. They're calling it...
a new era of reform.
Okay, this sounds ominous right off the bat. After years of aggressive enforcement,
shifting rules, and outright attacks on the Second Amendment, they're now talking about rolling
things back, reducing burdens, and working with gun owners instead of against them.
Yeah, sounds good on paper, but gun owners would be making a serious mistake If they take this at
face value, because this is not about restoring your rights, it's about saving the ATF.
Oh my goodness. Remember I said this in the last episode. This is damage control,
people. This is not reform. The Department of Justice's move to roll back Biden-era ATF rules did
not happen by accident. It happened because gun owners applied relentless pressure,
petitions, phone calls, and activism, forcing the issue onto the agenda.
This is a good thing, but none of that changes the core problem. The same agency exists.
There it is, right there. This agency has no constitutional right to exist.
It actually has every constitutional right to not exist. Many of the same laws are still on the
books. The same power is still in their hands. And if that power remains,
it will be used again. As Texas Gun Rights President Chris McNutt put it,
the ATF is not broken. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do,
enforce unconstitutional gun control. The window for reform has passed.
The only solution is to abolish the ATF before. It is weaponized again.
Amen and amen. That's exactly what needs to happen.
This right here. Abolish the ATF. Prosecute the living devil out of just about every agent who ever
enforced the NFA and GCA under color of law. And I think hanging a few of them would probably be in
order too.
They say modernization means more control, not less. Some of the most dangerous parts of this so
-called reform aren't the rollbacks. They're the changes being framed as improvements.
The ATF says it wants to modernize, which means expanding electronic bookkeeping,
or record keeping, I'm sorry. Streamlined compliance, and I hate that word.
Move into the digital age. But gun owners have seen this playbook before.
In Washington, quote-unquote modernization doesn't mean freedom.
It means building systems that are easier to track, easier to monitor, and easier to expand later.
Digital records don't stay limited. They grow. They connect. They get used. And once that
infrastructure is built, it does not go away. What's being created today in the name of efficiency
can be weaponized tomorrow in the name of enforcement. Because the problem is not the ATF's
behavior, so to speak. Because at the same time,
the ATF is talking about aligning with federal law. In other words, aligning themselves with
federal law, meaning obviously they're admitting that they have operated outside of federal law.
and clarifying its rules. Well, what they mean by clarifying their rules is to redefine them or re
-explain them in a condescending fashion. It helps us low-life little peons on the other side of
their badge to understand our infringements even better. Yeah. But from a no-compromise
perspective, that completely misses the point. If the underlying laws are unconstitutional,
aligning with them is not a victory. It's just enforcing bad law more efficiently.
There it is right there. There it is. They're becoming more efficient at enforcing
unconstitutional, which means illegal laws. Gun owners don't need clearer guidance on how their
rights are restricted. They don't need a smoother process for complying with federal gun control.
And they don't need a kinder, gentler ATF, because that's the real danger.
A more polished, less controversial ATF is harder to fight. It lowers the temperature.
It reduces public outrage. Some people have asked me, Royce, why do you sound angry sometimes when
you're on your podcast? Because I am, and I want you to be angry too. I want you to be angry at
this agency and treat them with the same contempt they treat us and the Supreme Law with.
It gives politicians cover to say, see, the system's working. But it isn't.
The problem has never been that the ATF was too aggressive or too confusing. The problem is that it
exists at all. and to enforce laws that should never have been passed in the first place.
Gun owners should demand more than reform. Texas gun rights isn't calling for tweaks,
reforms, or better management of the same broken system. They're fighting to abolish it.
Because the reality is simple. The ATF has abused its power for decades, and every time gun owners
are told... This time will be different. The cycle repeats. Remember I said this on the last
episode.
And the moment the political winds shift, the moment the left regains control of Washington,
that same...
And if there was any doubt about Washington's true intentions, it should be gone now.
Even as these so-called reforms are announced, the Senate has confirmed a career ATF insider to
lead the Bureau, a clear signal that the political class is not interested in dismantling the
agency, but entrenching it further. And that's the endgame. of reform,
not freedom, control. That's why now is the time to push harder to not back off,
because if these reforms prove anything, it's that the ATF knew it was pushing too far,
and now it's trying to pull back just enough to survive. Gun owners should not let this happen.
Now, there's a link on this episode page, and I want you to click on it, and I want you to sign the
petition to abolish the ATF and repeal the NFA. And if for any reason the link does not work,
go to... gun rights. Look them up online and you can find it there,
I assure you. Now, here's another article by Mark Chestnut and the title is Texas Gun Group and
they're referring to Texas gun rights. Why is there a federal agency overseeing a constitutional
right? Well, that's a very not just insightful but profound question.
We have to ask this question. So far, the article goes,
as legitimate questions go, I think the only one recently asked by the pro-rights organization
Texas Gun Rights bears some exploration. In a news item published on its website on July 1st...
Texas gun rights laid out a good argument against the existence of the BATFE. The group has been
calling for abolishing the agency for quite some time. No other constitutional right has its own
federal bureaucracy. That's a great point. There is no federal agency overseeing the freedom of
religion or the freedom of speech or the freedom of the press or any other right. Just this one.
They said the Bill of Rights protects speech, religion, the press, assembly,
due process, privacy, and the right to keep and bear arms. Only one of those rights has an entire
federal agency built around regulating, restricting, investigating, and prosecuting the tools
necessary to exercise it. The Second Amendment. As Texas Gun Rights pointed out,
there is no Federal Bureau of Speech, Religion, Bureau of the Press, or Bureau of Freedom of
Assembly. No federal agency, they said, licenses newspapers before they publish,
inspects churches for record-keeping violations, registers printing presses,
or forces Americans to pay a tax before exercising a First Amendment right. But when it comes to
the Second Amendment, Washington has built exactly that kind of bureaucracy. Other rights are
abused by bureaucrats. The Second Amendment is policed by the ATF.
Other agencies overreach. The ATF, though, overreaches by design.
Excuse me, by design. Of course, as Texas Gun Rights wrote, federal agencies have abused power
against other constitutional rights, too. The FBI and DOJ have targeted speech,
political activity, and religious Americans. The NSA, that's National Security Administration,
has raised Fourth Amendment concerns through their unlawful surveillance. DHS and TSA have expanded
federal search power in the name of security. The IRS has been accused of politically selective
enforcement because they have done that very same thing, did it against me and my entire family,
not just immediate family, but my extended family. Texas Gun Rights wrote,
It inspects federal firearms licensees. It polices their paperwork. It interprets federal gun laws.
It issues rules affecting lawful gun owners. And it decides whether products used by peaceable
Americans are legal today or criminal tomorrow. Other agencies violate constitutional rights when
they overreach. But the ATS firearms mission is overreached by design.
Mission creep. is inevitable when a federal agency regulates a constitutional right.
Ultimately, Texas Gun Rights says the problem isn't one of regulation or one administration,
but the very structure of the ATF. And they said this. When a federal agency is empowered to
regulate a constitutional right, mission creep is inevitable. Paperwork errors become enforcement
opportunities. Technical interpretations become criminal exposure. Political pressure becomes
rulemaking. That is how lawful gun owners are left wondering whether something they bought legally
will be treated as contraband after the next ATF memo. Ultimately,
Texas Gun Rights believes there's only one way to solve the problem, and if you guessed that their
solution is to abolish the ATF, you'd be correct. Amen. I'm down with that solution,
baby. They said... Every fight must move towards the same goal.
Strip the ATF's power, cut its funding, shut down its gun control schemes, hold its bureaucrats
accountable, expose its abuses, block its backdoor bans, and abolish the agency once and for all.
The Second Amendment does not need a federal police bureau. Peaceable gun owners do not need
federal agents looking for paperwork traps. Lawful firearms dealers do not need to live under
political zero-tolerance campaigns. And constitutional rights should never depend on whether the
current administration feels friendly towards gun owners and the Second Amendment.
Amen and amen. So I encourage you, click on that link, sign the petition to abolish the ATF because
they need to go yesterday. Actually, decades ago, but yesterday would be fine with me.
Sign it, date it, whatever. Follow the instructions there at Texas Gun Rights,
okay? Sign the petition. Make your voice heard. This will have an impact,
I assure you. All right? You do that. You stay stocked up.
You stay strapped. And never forget, incoming rounds always have the right of way.
Royce out.