In a recent news story, a second attempt was made on former President Trump’s life, [they so..want him dead] and it’s making headlines for more than just the attempted assassination.
The rifle used in the alleged crime had a partially or fully obliterated serial number. While the media is buzzing about how this affects law enforcement’s ability to trace the gun, Mark Smith from Four Boxes Diner connects a crucial dot that no one else seems to be talking about: how this event might be used by the ATF to push for more gun control.
The Bigger Picture: Serial Numbers & the Vanderstok Case
Mark Smith points out that this situation is likely to impact the Supreme Court case Garland v. Vanderstok, set for oral argument on October 8th, 2024. In this case, the ATF argues for more stringent regulations requiring serialization of more firearm parts.
Their faulty reasoning? It’s supposedly for public safety and solving crimes. But Smith calls this out as nonsense, saying the real reason is to build a national gun registry—an effort that’s been in the works for years.
Smith explains that tracing guns through serial numbers isn’t nearly as effective in solving crimes as the government claims. In fact, most criminals either obliterate the serial numbers themselves or buy guns with already scratched-off numbers. So, how is more serialization going to stop criminals? It won’t. Instead, it just forces more law-abiding gun owners to jump through hoops, filling out paperwork that doesn’t actually prevent crime.
Why This Matters
According to Smith, the real purpose of tracing isn’t about solving crimes; it’s about creating an excuse for more government control over firearms and gun owners. He argues that tracing rarely solves crimes. So why the push for serialization? It’s part of the anti-gun agenda. The more paperwork and regulations they create, the more complicated it is to buy guns or gun parts, and the more the government knows about who owns what guns—moving closer to a national gun registry.
This is something gun owners have been wary of for a long time.
The Serial Number “Argument” & What It Proves
The media is breathlessly running their mouths with the narrative that the scratched-off serial number on the Trump shooter’s gun made it harder for law enforcement to trace. But here’s the catch: they didn’t need the serial number to catch him. Eyewitnesses and other forms of identification led to his capture. Smith points out that this proves the argument against mandatory serialization. Even if a gun has a serial number, a determined criminal will find a way around it—like obliterating the number.
And for Liberals, err, I mean criminals, willing to commit heinous crimes, such as attempted assassination, scratching off a serial number is hardly a deterrent. Smith makes it clear that serial numbers aren’t stopping bad actors. They’re just being used to create a false sense of security and to justify more regulation on gun owners who aren’t the problem.
What’s Really at Stake?
In this upcoming Supreme Court case, the ATF will likely argue that they need more serialization to protect the public. But as Smith states, that’s just a cover. The real endgame is building a gun registry. The anti-gun movement has long used public safety as a pretext to chip away at Second Amendment rights. This is just the latest example.
As gun owners, it’s essential to see through this narrative and understand the broader agenda. The Trump attack may become another tool for anti-gun activists to push their cause, but it’s crucial to remember that more regulation doesn’t equal more safety. It just means more control over law-abiding Americans exercising their right to bear arms.
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The communist Democrats cannot take over our great country until all guns are removed from from the hands of law abiding citizens. Confiscating firearms from law abiding citizens will very likely be a daunting task.
What many don’t know and the government won’t tell you is the government already has a database on anyone who bought a firearm thru an FFL that either sold the business of closed up the shop.
And if you had ever taken a forensic science course you would learn, depending on how a serial number is removed, they still can be recovered in many cases.
Dismantling weapons from the citizens is the first thing Communist and tyrants do when they take over a country. Examples abound beyond Mao: Hitler took guns from the Jews in November of 1938, and Kristallnacht and the Holocaust followed; and then there was Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, to name but a few.
Why is it that these socialist/democrat communist always blame the gun but do not even look at the one who picked up that gun and used it in an unlawful way? When a gun is not held by a person it is just an inanimate object but these evil socialist/democrat commies want to blame the gun when it is the person who should be blamed not the gun!!!!!!!
Remember after the first assassination attempt when everyone suddenly started blaming Iran?
I dunno, it just seems suspicious to me.
If I were to take a gamble, I’d say we don’t need to look any further than within our own federal agencies…
Taking gun rights away from honest people will not change a thing this jerk didn’t have a gun legally so stopping honest people from defending their self is insane just like all the rest of those sworn in to uphold our safety
No gun control will stop these attempts. If someone really wants a gun they can get them off of the streets. Put God back into our country, our schools and our courts, and then that may help.
Most people don’t know (except metallurgists) that any time a number is imprinted into a piece of metal it leaves the imprint in the crystal structure far below the surface.
If a person grinds or files the serial number off of a firearm it can be recovered through a process called Magnafluxing where the object is subjected to a magnetic field and Iron dust is sprinkled on it. The Iron dust will then take the shape of the serial number.
There are several other techniques for recovering numbers removed from firearms, all simple and easy to perform, so no reason for undue concern when a serial number has been scratched or filed off.
Serial numbers are typically stamped in the metal on firearms. Evan if it is filed down in some manner it can still be recovered. After the visible number is removed the impression is still down in the metal under the surface. Don’t believe all the lies that are being told about not being able to trace firearms. Total lies!
“Scratching” or obliterating a firearm serial numbers does not render it unreadable to LE. Many techniques exist to reveal such numbers even after they have been “removed”, especially in high profile cases such as this. The metal substrate upon which the serial number is stamped is permanently altered even though the visible number is ostensibly removed. But again, when has the origin of any gun been used to solve or prevent a crime? Bad guys are even more ignorant than the general public when it comes to this myth, thinking that removing a serial number will give them some indemnity from being caught. The majority of criminal firearms are stolen anyway.
Portage County, Ohio, already has a gun registry. It has a question about firearms on its Court of Common Pleas questionnaire for potential jurors to fll out and return.
The Jury Commissioner’s questionnaire asks some questions that are quite personal about the poential jurist’s spouse/partner/significant other such as 1(Their employer? 2) Job title or description? 3)Length of present employment? 4)What other types of jobs held? But Question 18 is the corker, asking two things . The first is a yes or no question: “Do you own, or have you ever owned a firearm?” The second part of Question 18 asks: If yes, what type of firearm and for what purpose did you own it?”
Well, with that question nand several others, I immediately thought, “Why is the Jury Commssioner compiling what appears to be a dossier on everyone the receives this questionnaire? I sent mine back with a message “None of your buisiness, (NOYB,) and asked for the original source of the questionnaire, to which I received no reply fom the Jury Comissioner. I suggested in the local nnewapaper, the Record-Courier, that if anyone receiving the questionnaire valued his/her privacy or that or his/her family or friends, that if they took issue with Question 18, they might want to just return it ” NYOB.” Many did.
To sum up: Who gets to see these completed questionnaires? What happens to them? Are they kept or destroyed? Knowing the propensity of people to gossip, ezactly whom else gets to know about firearms ownership. Further, understand that today Presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants to confiscate guns, euphimistically referring to her program as a “mandatory gun buyback” program. but only for assasult weapons.” “In July of this year her campaign stated that she still supports an assault weapons ban but not a requirement to sell existing assault weapons to the Federal government.” Well, to whom are the mandatorially bought back assault weapons to be sold? The Cub Scouts? The Rainbow Girls? And, what exactly is an assault weapon? Is a semi-automatic handgun that holds 30 rounds an assault weapon. Is a .22 rifle with a tubular magazine that holds fifteen rounds an assault weapon? Those with box magazines can hold as many as 25 rounds. Assault weapon? So, Kamala, please tell me what exactly is an assault weapon?
Kamala, why do you own a firearm? If so, what type of firearm is it and for what purpose do you own it. I am an old man and knowing the propensity of a whole lot of your Democrat allies to wish Trump would have been killed in Butler, Pemnnsylvania, as a conservative I fear them and I fear you. Has Donald Trump ever publically wished any one of your party to be assassinated? I thought not. It’s just your flock of faithful groupies pretending to be journalists. You are just lucky that your side of the aisle is a ship of fools.
When are you going to realize ITS not the gun its the deranged idiot holding the gun, they always have some underlying reason as to why they pulled the trigger!!!
I’m a retired Illinois State Police officer and in 30 years of service I never saw a serial number on a firearm removed. When I was a Vehicle investigation officer for my district I recovered about 10 stolen bicycles around Eastern Illinois university that had had their serial numbers ground off but we had methods to bring the numbers back and identify who the real owner was, also cars, trucks etc had confidential VIN numbers in hidden places so they could be identified. The government just wants control over the people and I feel that’s why they want such legislation and why they would like a cashless society. Everyone would have to use a credit card and there’s an identity number on it, and they could probably trace it with a satellite in the future and know where everyone is at all times. Such control has increased greatly in the last few years.
Also, I served about 7 years in municipal police service and in 37 years a honest, law abiding person was never a threat to me.