{"id":1758,"date":"2014-03-26T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/03\/26\/comment-of-day_26\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:51","slug":"comment-of-day_26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"Comment Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12047,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.shootingwire.com\\\/features\\\/228649&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240522211646\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.shootingwire.com\\\/features\\\/228649&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 08:39:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 08:39:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12048,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\\\/cgi-bin\\\/show_public_doc?2013cv0581-17&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootingwire.com\/features\/228649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The comment of the day comes from Jim Shepherd of The Shooting Wire<\/a>. He reviews the scathing decision by US District Court Judge John D. Bates in which he found that BATFE had erred in classifying Innovator Enterprises&#8217; muzzle brake as a silencer.<\/p>\n<p>Jim ends with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Using Judge Bates&#8217; comparative critique of the flawed-logic used by the agency in its decision, you could draw the conclusion that possessing three characteristics of a competent police officer (a badge, gun, and arrest powers) wouldn&#8217;t qualify an individual (or group of similar individuals) to mount complicated investigations where a scrupulous attention to detail, an adherence to the rule of law, or an unswerving dedication to public safety during those investigations were essentials.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but this ruling makes another compelling argument that ATF is an agency in need of a top-to-bottom overhaul.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think you&#8217;d find many rank and file BATFE agents in agreement with Jim&#8217;s conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>You can read Judge Bate&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2013cv0581-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comment of the day comes from Jim Shepherd of The Shooting Wire. He reviews the scathing decision by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[371,142,481],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batfe","tag-comment-of-the-day","tag-jim-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9790,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}