Well, uh, yeah. I don’t see anybody there representing my interests with my quaint “shall not be infringed” naiveté. I don’t see anyone making sure they “get this right” for those of us “extremist hatriots” who believe in the Second Amendment as articulated by the Founders.
And two things make me think I won’t.
First are these sentiments from NFATCA board member Dan Shea:
There are a few misguided crusaders on the pro-gun side who cross the line; probably the most dangerous people there are to us because they will sacrifice anyone and anything to their generally misguided and usually self-serving agendas.
"Self-serving," Mr. Shea? The liberty I’m going after will apply to all. Sorry, I’m just not a member of your exclusive five-plus-figures firearms club. Still, “misguided” is one of the nicer critiques.
One more thing that's a wide-open secret in the upper levels of the NFATCA: Dan Shea, current and former board member of the organization and its de facto president and ruler for life -- the power behind the scenes -- and Big Heap Editor Mojo of Small Arms Review is the ATF snitch who "ratted out" R.A. Bear and sent the agency on an expensive years-long chase for a child's stuffed toy.
Well-founded rumor has it that Shea has his own legal problems and was trying to curry favor. Licking the hand that otherwise would have spanked him. You're big on threats, Dan. Go ahead and threaten to sue me and let's see if we get past discovery.
Send any lawyers' insincere growls to:
Mike Vanderboegh
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126
Looking forward to it. Just one more scandal the ATF is trying to desperately keep the lid on.
NOTE: The original post incorrectly stated that Dan Shea was past president of the NFATCA. The language above reflects his true status.
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"The British used elephant guns as a means of countering the German tactic of having their snipers advance towards Allied lines under the cover of a large, 6-10 millimeter (0.24-0.4 inch) thick steel plates.[1] Though normal small arms were ineffective against the plate, the elephant guns of the era had enough force to punch through it." -- Wikipedia
Color me unsurprised.
Dan Shea has a long history of a lack of ethics when sucking up to powerful interests.
His Small Arms Review once published a number of puff-pieces reviewing H&K firearms, written by "Stephen Gearinger" and others by "Charles Sweda". Turns out that these articles were actually written by a senior H&K employee, using a pen-name to disguise the relationship, and Shea knew it from the start.
Hopefully, the truth will continue to out.
How is Dan Shea involved with this? I can see that you don't like him. Dan was never the pres of NFATCA and did not participate in the meeting. And what deal is Codrea talking about? If what NFATCA is saying is true a whole bunch of crap was avoided by putting a stop to a silly new rule. Is the problem that Codrea wasn't included? If so what would he bring to the table? And as for the Savage comment on subguns being deleted, you do know that Bowers cannot stand the NFATCA right?
He's a prick, but SAR DOES have some useful articles. He's not any more or less a prick than some of the other fancy pants SOTs I've known. Couple of them gave me half a mind to turn them into BATFOO over the years, for improprieties I have witnessed with their businesses just because they were such elitist pricks. God apparently didn't break the mold when he made the Dan Sheas of the world as he's not at all in a minority in the butt-licking clubs.
What do I know? I thought J. Curtis Earl was a nice person and SAR ran a significant hit piece on him this year (nice to wait until he was long dead to do it, real classy), because he was pretty brutal about ending business relationships and acquaintances with people he found to be morons and scum suckers.
"How is Dan Shea involved with this?"
Everything to do with NFATCA over the years has Shea's fingerprints on it through John Brown. Brown's so deep up Shea's ass that when Shea farts, Brown thanks him for the sinus clearing.
"I can see that you don't like him."
True, I despise all snitches, especially ATF snitches.
"Dan was never the pres of NFATCA and did not participate in the meeting."
I have corrected the typo. He is and was a long-time board member of NFATCA and de facto president. He may not have participated in the meeting because, as I hear, he is discredited with the ATF after the R.A. Bear fiasco which was of his making and has legal problems of his own.
"And what deal is Codrea talking about? If what NFATCA is saying is true a whole bunch of crap was avoided by putting a stop to a silly new rule."
Backroom deals made by sellout organizations run by ATF snitches and their friends without input from the public is hardly an example of stout-hearted defense of the Second Amendment.
"Is the problem that Codrea wasn't included? If so what would he bring to the table?"
Codrea is the least egotistic fellow I know and he certainly doesn't hold a candle to Shea in that department. The point is what would THE PUBLIC bring to the table on an issue that affects us all?
"And as for the Savage comment on subguns being deleted, you do know that Bowers cannot stand the NFATCA right?"
Not true. And certainly not true of him knowing what side is bread is buttered on when it comes to Shea and his masters, the ATF.
You want a character reference for Shea? How about we ask Albert Kwan? Or any number of folks who have done business with him over the years?
Shea's problem is that he has a talent for getting into the shady side of things and then he uses his "contacts" at the ATF to pull him out or paper them over. So when they wanted to further their "economic Waco" of Len Savage, naturally they turned to him and expected something in return.
His chickens, in the R.A. Bear/Len Savage case, have just come home to roost. He can hardly blame us for the chicken excrement with which he is now covered.
Thanks for confirming what I already suspected. You have no idea what you are talking about. That's just fine. You wrote that Dan Shea was the president and were wrong. What else have you wrote about him that is wrong?
As for the 'public" being "invited" to this meeting let's be very clear. EPS was trying to get this shoved through without any scrutiny of any kind. NRA was unaware, NSSF, SAAMI, Safari and all the others were totally in the dark. NFATCA pulled of the emergency meeting with a week of notice and got the brakes put on a monumental cluster in the making. That very much benefits the public in my mind.
What specific ideas and concepts did you want advanced at this meeting? I'd like to know. Somehow I think that you are going to say that the ATF should be abolished. That may be very true but it is not a viable component of this meeting. So what did you want advanced?
And as far as the whole Dan shea thing, dude, you give him wayyy to much credit. Bowers supporting ATF and NFATCA, what a hoot!
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