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@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.

@guns_ny Thank you for supporting us while disagreeing with our premise!

I respect the @PinkPistols group although I don’t agree with the premise that the 4473 changes on sex are a trap. That said, I get where they’re coming from - why ask this of anyone, what business is it of the govt? Govt needs to be reined in. I’m okay starting here.

@PinkPistols The good ol’ “constructive intent” shoe on the other foot…

Because I'm feeling fighty: "The ATF has constructive possession over a collection of records which they can easily and readily assemble into an illegal gun owner registry." That's the pull quote, and it uses the ATF's own terminology against it. Now here's the context: 18 U.S.C. § 923 and 926 prohibit the ATF from maintaining a searchable database of records. However, ATF agents may enter an FFL's place of business and inspect decades' worth of Form 4473s. Given modern smartphones, there is no practical barrier preventing an agent from photographing those forms, digitizing them, and searching them later. While those actions would be illegal, the current system relies entirely upon agent restraint, not impossibility. Since the ATF could assemble such a registry easily using materials they have access to, that counts as constructive possession of a federal firearms registry, which is prohibited by law.

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.

(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…

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Let me phrase it using the ATF's own terminology: "The ATF has constructive possession over a collection of records which they can easily and readily assemble into a gun owner registry." That's the pull quote. Here's the context: 18 U.S.C. § 923 and 926 prohibit the ATF from maintaining a searchable database of records. However, ATF agents may enter an FFL's place of business and inspect decades' worth of Form 4473s. Given modern smartphones, there is no practical barrier preventing an agent from photographing those forms, digitizing them, and searching them later. While those actions would be illegal, the current system relies entirely upon agent restraint, not impossibility.

@lottaguns @eugeneweekly Mmm. Creamy, delicious irony.

@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.

@regularguyguns @eugeneweekly *Illegal* de facto registry, we hasten to add.

@regularguyguns @eugeneweekly Just wait until you hear our spicy take on the de facto firearms registry the ATF has built over the decades.

@regularguyguns @eugeneweekly Whether the ATF’s Form 4473 can survive post-Bruen constitutional scrutiny is an open question.

@PinkPistols @eugeneweekly Ideally the 4473 should be nuked. Everyone wins! Well everyone who is pro-2A anyhow. Then we don’t have to fuss.

For us, the issue is that this rule creates a trap where neither answer can be considered correct for people who have legally transitioned, and therefore the only safe option is not to buy a firearm to begin with. The result is the DOJ's propose trans gun ban, just with extra steps.

@PinkPistols No need im terminally online

This is definitely one we will be watching closely in terms of what the language of the rule is. Depending on how it's written it might be nothing, but if it has the effect of blocking (or obstructing) eligible people from buying guns, we'll want that addressed before a final rule. And this is the one Second Amendment issue that could be successfully litigated in the Ninth Circuit 🤣

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@thereal_SnS tbh me2

I’d rather attend the Liberty Caucus Luncheon TBH.

@MossbergCorp I'm not saying No..... but I'm not quite saying Yes...

How does this make you feel? Respond with an emoji only. 💥

@thereal_SnS Maybe he wants you to be "Burqas and BARs?"

Wearing in a modest dress holding a lever action rifle in the desert isn’t thirst posting. FFS. You couldn’t handle a thirst post from me, incel.

Apologies, we were away for a few days due to computer issues. What's going on, everyone?