https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOzi60nGN0s
Mark from Austin’s Silencer Shop is a downright pleasant fellow. Talking to him yesterday afternoon after our story posted about the rumored ATF cease and desist letter that’s coming down the pike, he sounded calm, cool, and collected. But one thing that did seem to concern him was how, as he sees it, the ATF is trying to use his shop as a scapegoat . . .
The eForms system that the ATF put in place was supposed to solve the NFA paperwork processing problem. Instead of submitting forms on dead trees that needed staff at the ATF to transcribe them into digital records, the individual gun shops themselves could do that and save a ton of wait time. By slicing out that time-consuming step they could finally start to make a dent in the pile of pending applications, and maybe even get to a point where the 10-month wait for approved could be whittled down to only a few weeks. But the key to the entire process was their shiny new website.
However in a manner reminiscent of healthcare.gov, the new site had major issues from day one. Gun shops complained that the system wasn’t working, wasn’t compatible with their web browser, or was just generally slow. And over time, things have only gotten worse. Unlike the Obamacare portal – because of a much lower public profile, no doubt – things never improved.
Months down the line now, nothing has improved. FFLs have yet to stop complaining, and things aren’t getting any better. And now there’s increasing chatter from both FFLs and sources in the ATF that are blaming it squarely on Mark’s shop.
The problem is that Mark actually is doing something different. Where most shops submit their forms online one at a time, Silencer Shop uses an automated process to upload all of their forms in a batch as quickly as possible. According to Mark, that’s about four forms per minute when they get rolling. But Mark claims that the upload process only runs during the night, when everyone else in the country is asleep. In fact, he believes that by removing Silencer Shop from the daily press of people trying to use the site during business hours, it improves the overall performance of the system.
There’s one other small piece of evidence that makes me sympathetic to Mark’s claim. “The [batch uploading] system has been offline since Saturday, it’s being upgraded” he says. “You haven’t heard any reports that things are getting better, have you?”
I’ve been basing my posts on this subject on a number of tips that I’ve been receiving from multiple sources — it’s not just one person feeding me information about the ATF’s opinion on this matter. But given their track record, I’m more than open to the idea that the regulators are trying to pin the blame for their failed computer system on the Silencer Shop rather than facing the music themselves. We’ll be watching to see how the situation shakes out.
Divide and conquer – that’s all this article is. An attempt to split the community into small, more irrelavant chuncks. This has been the progressive liberal playbook for sometime and you know what? It works. They trod out the biggest liberal freak they can possibly find, who likes guns, and throw her out there for the conservative, right wingers to have at her. They want to show that gun owners are nuts but showing how we attack our own. Gun owners are intolerant rubes who can’t find a consistant message. They’re irrational because they won’t accept someone different for who they are. Never mind that this woman or man, or whatever it is, has absolutely nothing in common with how I feel about the second amendment. She’s a gun owner, but she’s one of them, not us.
I am glad she’s a gun owner, deep down I am. But she’s owning them for the wrong ideas. Self defense is only secondary to pushing her agenda.
They’re all patting themselves on the back at ABC on this one.
ATF must have been forced to use that same contractor that won the no-bid for building the website for the ObamaCare federal exchange….forget how that happened- what was it again, Valery Jarretts cousin working there?
Where’s the Google Geeks when you need them?
One thing, if you’re out hiking in lion country with children, keep the kids in the middle. In the very few attacks we’ve had in Big Bend NP, the lions try to cut the kids out of the herd. They go for the shorter humans.
Note to Billy Burke: still smarting for being called out for posting under a fake name? Good.
LOL
“But given their track record, I’m more than open to the idea that the regulators are trying to pin the blame for their failed computer system on the Silencer Shop rather than facing the music themselves.”
“The Obama Administration issued a recently-completed study of the ATF processing difficulties, which found that George Bush was to blame.”
There – glad we got that settled.
It would be nice if someone wrote a complaint to the papers’ ed board about his fucked up statistics use and also copied all of the national journalistic societies while accusing him of lacking journalistic integrity. That might score a few points
GAT Gun, E. Dundee IL. A nice eclectic mix of FUDs and Mall Ninjas.
a local place I’ve seen for years but never stopped in. Sign out front says “GUNS” and its in a strip mall. It’s a mix of mostly military surplus junk, a few new guns in the case and more used stuff (asking near MSRP) on the wall. Old guys behind the counter smoking and cursing and talking shit about guys driving “imports”.
I did my best to check a few things out and then made a graceful exit. Good thing they didn’t see my Mercedes out front. ROFL.
I have two in mind in PA but PAFOA has it covered.
If it has guns,
It passes the main qualification.
We’ve got a shop here that’s owned and operated by a former cop. A former CORRUPT cop, some will tell you. The regulars are always hanging out at the counter and they’ll stare at you with suspicion as you look over the offerings. The whole place will go quiet when someone walks in who isn’t a regular. Every gun fan I know, including several police officers, can’t stand the place. I have yet to meet anyone who continues to go there. So you wonder how the hell they stay in business. Whatever, though. Plenty of alternatives, although I have yet to find a gun shop that I really like. Cabela’s at least offers anonymity and the freedom to browse in peace.
I can think of several, but none match the idiocy on display at your average gun show. Good dealers, bad dealers, and then your grouchy old hobbyists who pay for a table but never want to close a sale. I had one guy try to sell me an original painting by Hitler. Yeah, right, buddy.
Chris at PSA on 200 Business Pk in Columbia, SC.
Guy is horrible and condesending. He was a Marine but still has the attitude. I’m like really? Oh, why does he have this attitude? He’s an instructor at PSA. WOW. Really, wow.
Anyway, he tried to pressure sell me like a used car salesman on a 2×7 Burris that was $50 more than the online price. Wow. Pound it. It wasn’t like a used car though, he just kept pushing it while I was at the register. For like 5 minutes, not wanting to be rude I just said, no thanks. He walks off giggling he’s a bad, bad man. No, more like a douche bag but whatever.
Now the rest of the crew there is awesome. Especially JT, call and ask for him by name. He loves it.
Dan, it may be a free gun, but its a crappy gun, combined with the non stop spamming of it, and the fact we have to use Facebook? No wonder people hated those posts
Hey look! Joe Biden is modeling the next great thing in home defense!
Which is more sad:
*Something designed to kill which takes out 11,000 people a year (firearms)
OR
*Something designed to help us which kills 32,000 people a year (vehicles)
While I play devil’s advocate a little, I do wish I could throw “innocent” people out of this calculation.
Guns deaths would probably be below 2,000 people. However, there is no real way to know.
The fact of the matter is life is fragile, people die all the time. Its a sad fact of life. Live your
life righteously, do good, try not to be an asshole, and just let people have the right to defend themselves!
Lets solve the root causes of things, we can pretty much assume that many firearms deaths are somehow related to money; Of course the aristocrats and fat cats would rather band-aid the issue rather than face the fact we kill each other for monopoly money.
I’m not religious (perse, or maybe at all, I go back and forth), however the church historically served as an excellent “catch-all” for these disenfranchised people. Its unfortunate the church makes so many mistakes combined with the fact that some left wingers think the idea of religion is dumb (its not, its serves as a framework for civilization and should be respected)
Sources: Wikipedia, 2011
And it’s not that noticeable
All uncle mikes I have had were garbage. Worn out and broke within half a year. IWB I use now is the comp-tac infidel. Best one I’ve ever had and over a year of use already. Friend of mine has had his for over two years with no problems.
Few people know that modern body armor was first invented in World War I.
Thanks Robt good article appreciate the explanation of advantage of SIG DA/SA for at home thinking, and tip from Wilson guy on light trigger needs expert on 1911.
Looking forward to your force on force training writeup. That might be especially useful as part of an explanation of the entire training process you have been thru, in perspective of what worked and what didnt, why, what you’d recommend to a noob.
Of course they have 2A rights. They have all rights we as Americans are also intended to have. Every living, breathing human being has these rights on this planet. It’s only governments that encroach on the rights of all people in our world.
No because the anti’s will move the goal post to ratchet up restrictions every time there is an agreement.
Five minutes to tell me my password was incorrect (hey, at least it was, this time). Two minutes to load their own damn logo. What an utter shit heap of a project. Looks like a web page from the ’90’s; someone laughed all the way to the bank on this one.
Is it possible to have a early addition of Century and it be a milled receiver bc mine is milled and I’ve had no issue’s with it at all.