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@Spookyspoon16 @kinsmed @fred_guttenberg My point is that gun death statistics conflate at least two categories and that gun controls solve neither.

@HopliteMagazine @kinsmed @fred_guttenberg I am. You had brought up that ma y of the gun deaths were suicides.

@Spookyspoon16 @kinsmed @fred_guttenberg That may or may not be true, depending on the method, but taking guns away from people does not prevent suicide. If your concern is suicide, you should support living wages, addiction treatment, and universal healthcare.

@HopliteMagazine @kinsmed @fred_guttenberg But they are not as quick and reliable. There is no turning back or calling 911 once the bullet is in the brain.

ATF seeks to change 34 rules for transfer and possession of firearms by @HopliteMagazine open.substack.com/pub/hoplitemag…

@Type07Safety @PinkPistols @eugeneweekly Grok? Excuse me, I mistook you for a human being. Never mind.

@HopliteMagazine @PinkPistols @eugeneweekly grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…

(1/3) By now you've probably all heard about the ATF's plan to require biological sex on all Form 4473s. Back in November 2025 our National Coordinator was asked for her thoughts on this very topic by Eve Weston of the @eugeneweekly. eugeneweekly.com/2025/11/20/exe…

@Type07Safety @PinkPistols @eugeneweekly I.e., you can't focus, so you leap to a new topic.

@HopliteMagazine @PinkPistols @eugeneweekly Im not open for criticism from someone seven times vaccinated with a Ukraine flag in their profile

@Type07Safety @PinkPistols @eugeneweekly Yes, I saw that. Abolishing the 4473 wouldn't take away the Gun Control Act of 1968 or your attempt to make a trans person a prohibited person.

@HopliteMagazine @PinkPistols @eugeneweekly Except I never wanted to deny them the right to own firearms. See the part where I said abolish the 4473? Reading is a skill

This is what happens when neither media nor law enforcement feel the need to understand anything about guns:

@HelmerVA Calling something "common sense" is political speak for "I want to take something away from you, but I don't feel like doing the work of showing that my demand is constitutional and defensible."

I’m a gun owner. I respect the Second Amendment. But I can’t accept that the number one killer of children in Virginia is bullets. We can protect responsible ownership and pass common sense measures to keep our communities safe.

ATF is pandering to certain political people. There is no reason to do this.

@Type07Safety @PinkPistols @eugeneweekly How Soviet of you, using the claim of mental illness to deny something to a group you don't like.

@PinkPistols @eugeneweekly I don't disagree with your stance. I also don't think it's that complicated: biological sex is pretty clear for 99.99 percent of the population. The rest have mental illness. Also: abolish the 4473.

@PinkPistols @eugeneweekly Wouldn't it be something if it were the Pink Pistols that caused the 4473 to be abolished? Irony so thick that you need a spoon.

The Second Amendment applies to all Americans, including transgender and non-binary Americans. Nothing in federal law makes it illegal to be transgender or non-binary, which means nothing in federal law strips them of the right to purchase, keep, and bear arms. This new directive from ATF, stating that firearm purchasers shall identify themselves by their biological sex on the Firearm Transaction Record - Form 4473, forces lawful gun purchasers into an impossible bind. A transgender woman who writes ‘female’ on her Form 4473 risks being accused of providing false identifying information under the President’s order. If she instead writes ‘male,’ she risks being accused of providing identifying information that no longer matches the appearance of her lived identity, undermining the form’s stated purpose of helping law enforcement identify a purchaser. That Catch-22 is not a safety measure. It is a trap. This contradiction is especially ironic given that the ATF itself added a ‘non-binary’ option to the Form 4473 in December 2019, during President Trump’s first term. The Trump administration raised no objection at the time, or at any point before he left office in January 2021. This sudden reversal is not about policy consistency; it is about political pandering. The federal government does not get to play ‘gotcha’ with constitutional rights. Creating a paperwork contradiction designed to intimidate a minority group out of exercising a fundamental right raises serious equal-protection and due-process concerns. If the government creates conditions where the only safe option for a transgender or non-binary person is to forego gun ownership entirely, that is not regulation; that is disenfranchisement disguised as regulation. Whether the ATF’s Firearm Transaction Record - Form 4473 can survive post-Bruen constitutional scrutiny is an open question. What is not in question is that the Constitution does not permit the federal government to target a class of citizens for second-tier rights. Operation Blazing Sword - Pink Pistols will continue to oppose any policy that attempts to do so. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

@eugeneweekly (3/3) However, it appears that the ATF was instead planning to unveil it along with a host of other new rules and hope it didn't get noticed. Well, we noticed. The opinion of Operation Blazing Sword - Pink Pistols has not changed since 20 November 2025.

@eugeneweekly (2/3) Ms. Palette crafted a press release as an official answer, then waited for the ATF's rule to make national news. When that didn't come, she hoped that the ATF had decided to drop the issue.

Gun rights apply to everyone:

@Spookyspoon16 @kinsmed @fred_guttenberg That's not what I said. I said that suicide isn't unique to the U.S. There are many methods, and if one isn't availble, suicidal people use other methods.

@HopliteMagazine @kinsmed @fred_guttenberg How does owning a gun prevent suicide?

@kinsmed @fred_guttenberg "My goodness"? Even your cursing is weak. All you've done here is show that you don't understand the subject. But that's common for gun control advocates, and experience tells me that I won't be able to reason you out of a position you didn't reach through reason.

@HopliteMagazine @fred_guttenberg My goodness. Caught you bullshitting. And that makes you an angry little boy. Your 'facts' didn't last long.

@kinsmed @fred_guttenberg Fuckwit, you're decompensating into incoherence.

@HopliteMagazine @fred_guttenberg "Much". "May". You are guilty of what you accuse.

@kinsmed @fred_guttenberg Much of that violence is committed with guns. But dead is dead, and gun laws don't change that. And you may want to check your assumptions about me.

@HopliteMagazine @fred_guttenberg My goodness. Another violent gunhugger. Solve your problems with a gun? Like Allen Cole? Your bias chart say 'violence'. Not guns. Step back from the edge, 'patriot'.

@kinsmed @fred_guttenberg Quit being smug, asshole: worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death…

@HopliteMagazine @fred_guttenberg If you could, you would have.