'You Have No Idea What You're talking About!': Scott Perry Tears Into Gun Safety Advocate

At last Thursday's joint House Judiciary and Oversight Subcommittee hearing about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, REp. Scott Perry (R-PA) questioned Ro Wilcox, the Federal Legal Director at Everytown For Gun Safety.
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[@mikealext]

It has always been a right for citizens to manufacture their own firearms.

[@iamblaineful]

Please go ahead and cite the Constitutional Right or Amendment here. Trust me before you Google, you can't, but go ahead anyway.

[@northdakotaham1752]

@@iamblaineful From the Constitution of the United States of America: "the right to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" What we have today are already massive numbers of INFRINGEMENTS. All of them unconstitutional (illegal). Look up the definition of INFRINGEMENT and see what it says.

[@JoshEmerson0421]

It's not about that to be fair. Its about building them without serial numbers.

[@michaellovetere8033]

@@JoshEmerson0421 Did guns or weapons have serial numbers during the revolutionary war?////?????? DUH!

[@ibanez4482]

@@iamblainefulfrom the ATF website No, a license is not required to make a firearm solely for personal use. However, a license is required to manufacture firearms for sale or distribution. The law prohibits a person from assembling a non-sporting semiautomatic rifle or shotgun from 10 or more imported parts, as well as firearms that cannot be detected by metal detectors or x-ray machines. In addition, the making of an NFA firearm requires a tax payment and advance approval by ATF. [18 U.S.C. 922(o), (p) and (r); 26 U.S.C. 5822; 27 CFR 478.39, 479.62 and 479.105]

[@nunyabusiness1499]

I wish the ATF would use their enforcement authority on the streets of Chicago.

[@DogTrekker]

Yep. We'll never hear any ATF "rule" about getting guns out of the hands of gangbangers and other criminals.

[@saxon1177]

They would but they're afraid they will get shot up by criminals with illegal weapons.

[@DD-st5rh]

Or on Hunter Biden

[@twisted2291]

You mean you actually want them to go out and do their jobs, and take firearms away from criminals???? That is just insane, and it might actually work to help preserve life.

[@billysherman2702]

That was never their true purpose. They exist to circumvent the Second Amendment. Their existence is Un-Constitutional.

[@toshka06]

This so called Gun Safety nerd looks like he's never done anything physical in his life. Well done Scott Perry!

[@BuddyNika]

He has never worked a day in his miserable life.

[@cccEngineer]

Why even resort to physical insults when you have evidence that he has no idea about what he's saying. Physical insults are for people with no basis

[@Black_Sail_Demon]

The ad hominem attack has fallen out of vogue in the last century, which is a shame. There’s no rationale to think the ideas a person espouses and argues for have nothing to do with the strengths and weaknesses of their own character or ones physical ability. Weak and reactionary thinkers advocate, albeit rarely in a loud or boisterous manner, for systems of analysis and criticism that abet and enable their weaknesses, or their reactionary instincts. They look to implement the framework which they find to be the most soothing or flattering to their own temperament or idiosyncrasies. They use argumentation and rhetoric to advance a seemingly objective point of view, but when you look deeper, you can lay bare the roots of their intellectual machinations.

[@jameskennerly9748]

The witness definitely doesn't have a clue what he is talking about.

[@kedrickswain6509]

He kinda did. Missing the point that criminals don’t buy P80 kits tho, they get highpoints from their cousin.

[@death818]

The 2A doesn't mention anything about balancing. It mentions "Shall not be infringed". The direction is quite clear.

[@wolfevickery6081]

Well said

[@mattyice767]

AMEN

[@justtryme2020]

The ATF is not allowed to the make laws they want to enforce! Defund them immediately.

[@marccovitz5289]

@Justtryme 2020: You and the Trumptards need to be defunded immediately.

[@jongundrum1076]

There are so many alphabet agencies who are operating outside and parallel to the law, creating their own laws and interpretating the law to suit their own agenda.

[@hijoputa5504]

We The People should have the right to Vote them out .

[@edwhatshisname3562]

They should be disbanded. Also, the NFA should be repealed. They are unconstitutional. After the Bruen decision, this should absolutely be the case.

[@millirabbit4331]

The ATF needs more funding to stop crime, not less.

[@rossfelton1955]

Finally. Law- abiding citizens aren't criminals. They are not the ones committing murders. Thank you.

[@deker0954]

How about assembly and drill? Would it not be good to have former military personnel get outdoors with some of these patriotic blobs of flesh in Duramax diesels and their black rifles to do a little paramilitary training a couple days a month? Might shed some light on how useless a bump stock is for one thing. And how impossible it would be for some guys to walk a couple miles in gear you need to repel the commie hoard.

[@420folife]

The media is in overtime today hiding the fact a trans man shot a Tennessee school.

[@willli8163]

Ya they are law abiding until they aren’t anymore ya 🤡

[@czarcastic1458]

@@willli8163 What an ignorant comment.

[@willli8163]

@@czarcastic1458 😂 why is it ignorant? The truth hurts eh

[@gerardjohnson2106]

EXCELLENT questions. The witness is not QUALIFIED.

[@russellgtyler8288]

If he's unqualified, he is the perfect member of the current administration.

[@Jerry_Fried]

"Scott Perry Tears Into Gun Safety Advocate" He's not a gun safety advocate. He's a gun prohibitionist.

[@antibull4869]

Same thing in politics.

[@Jakehava]

Jerry Fried, If he were a "Gun Safety Advocate', he would more likely own a firing range, or be suggesting to folks that they should get firearms instruction, or perhaps be a member of the NRA. But, he would certainly not be pushing to have peoples' firearms taken away.

[@seanberthiaume6909]

Yup "common sense" "gun reform" "safe solutions" BS!

[@Bloodsin1]

I guess he doesn't know what operational means...amongst other things.

[@901pics]

Nothing unconstitutional about making your own gun as far as our constitution the way I've read it....not be infringed is simple enough. ATF needs to be underfunded.

[@pete3579]

*overhauled

[@waynekolvoord968]

@@pete3579 The agency needs to drop the last letter, stick with drinking and smoking.

[@northdakotaham1752]

defunded entirely.

[@Rockhound6165]

@@waynekolvoord968 even that's not needed. Do we really have a tobacco problem in this country? Is bootlegging still a thing? It's a useless entity.

[@waynekolvoord968]

@@Rockhound6165 I agree 100%, they should just keep smoking and drinking and leave us alone.

[@4351steve]

Their expert on gun safety does not know that both handguns and long guns have frames and receivers. Nor does he know the law as congress passed it. He should not be testifying.

[@Rockhound6165]

I once heard a police chief...a police chief...A POLICE CHIEF admit they knew nothing about guns.

[@alankennedy5759]

No, let him testify! Let everyone see how clueless the left is 😅

[@mikeburnett7028]

Great questions. Keep the heat on the ATF

[@oddshot60]

Wilcox would flat pass out if he knew what could be done with a length of pipe, some wood, a couple nails and some rubber bands. He should stay out of the Home Depot.

[@jason60chev]

Marshall Williams built a gun with hand tools.....while in Prison!

[@michaellovetere8033]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@Rockhound6165]

Look up zip guns. Give me a big enough pen and I can make a single shot firearm. Might not be accurate(no rifling) but at close range it can kill. It really isn't that hard.

[@TheSchaef47]

Yeah, In the Line of Fire was a great movie

[@gumecindogarcia1070]

It took Taurus 40 years to make a functioning handgun, with an entire firearms facility

[@RobinRobertsesq]

Nonsense.

[@Rockhound6165]

And they're still working on it.

[@jdholbrook33]

I worked in South Africa for a few years and made a few friends there. One thing that everyone was afraid of was car jacking, it's big over there. When my friend came to visit me here in the US. He asked me why we were not afraid of car jackers. I told him because most people have guns and the car jackers don't want to die. He got a kick out of that.

[@DennistheMenace2011]

It is a lot worse now. Check out the YT video showing the Brinks-type delivery truck being attacked. Scary stuff.

[@tamfuwing1]

One gun (driver) vs several (,hijackers).

[@donaldjoy4023]

Tons of carjackings going on in our U.S. cities, done by young blacks

[@hemihead001]

What is so hard to understand about " Shall not be infringed " ?

[@billiep4338]

That dude couldn’t make a sandwich without help.

[@BuckJones1909]

The last questions are most significant as criminals are not being affected by these restrictions only law abiding people are affected!!

[@michaellovetere8033]

True...This nerd testifying, like all democrats, don't know that criminals don't obey gun laws.

[@billewilde1]

Yup, you can build a "zip gun" with two pieces of pipe... but what the Regulators want is a serial number so they can track, trace, and confiscate... a block of metal(even if it wasn't used in a crime). Answer me one question how can you tell the difference between a ghost gun and a serial numbered firearm if it was NOT confiscated during the commission of a crime? Now go back and look at those prior criminals that were arrested WITH those "ghost guns" and serial numbered firearms and see if they were EVER charged with possessing them?

[@philobetto5106]

I did a Survey at gun stores, pawnshops, and collectors, asking, 5000 guns this question: Have you in the past, present, or future, thought about, or acted on feelings of violence ... I got no answer from all 5000 guns

[@CueDriver]

I am sure they were really quiet during your questioning.

[@thegiantrubberduckyssqueek3163]

How shocking

[@john9982]

Those guns non-answer to a question is an admission of guilt in its biased questioning! Bang bang! WTF??? LOL

[@kenhayes3448]

@@john9982 Silent killers

[@BuffaloBilliam]

​@GUN METAL hmm... I have a better question for you: What kind of genius thinks he really went from store to store asking questions to guns? Edit: GUN METAL realized his dumbness was even too much for himself and removed his comment.

[@americansmoke3551]

He ate his ass up!

[@billysherman2702]

Making your own gun, on your own has NEVER been illegal. If it was, we would have lost both World Wars, Because John Moses Browning could not have perfected his designs to help us win.

[@John5.56]

Exactly, not to mention trying to enforce this nonsense would basically be a pipe dream. It’s always been legal to make your own firearms as long as they’re for you and you’re not selling them etc. From my understanding anyway.

[@cujoedaman]

But they don't care about what happened yesterday, only what they can make illegal today.

[@clarkyateman3871]

What gun in particular? The BAR was far from the best.

[@millirabbit4331]

So he bought mostly complete guns and just added the last parts?

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

@@clarkyateman3871 Hmm, are you a booster for the Chauchat machine rifle?

[@tomburton1037]

Wilcox: "A frame is for a handgun and the receiver is for a long gun" Definition: Firearm Frame or Receiver That part of a firearm which provides housing for the hammer, bolt or breechblock, and firing mechanism, and which is usually threaded at its forward portion to receive the barrel. Both handguns and long guns have frames and receivers because they are the same thing. Conclusion: WIlcox is very bad at bullshitting

[@dustinpeters3109]

They never do. Gun control advocates always are clueless

[@raymonaromain6320]

I DONT THINK GOD DID IT WE DONR IT IN THE GARDEN AND WAS KICKED OUT AND THRN THE LAW CAME AND WE COULDNT KEEP THAT ....BUT JESUS THE LIVIN WORD BECAME FLESH AND DIED ON THE CROSS FOR ALL THE WORLD JOHN 3-16 AND 17 HECK THe WHOLE and ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND WALKED AMONG THEM AFTER CRUSIFIXION AND RAISNG ALAH IS SYILL IN THE GRAVE BUDDA IS STILL IN THE GRAVE JESUS THE CHRIST OUR REDEMER CONCERED DEATH AND HELL FOR THOES WHO BLEVIE ..WOW THE WORD BECAME FLESH AMEN WOUNDERFUL TIME TO LIVE HOPE YOU CAN READ .HAVE A GREAT DAY

[@bigperm3853]

Nope. Some of us even own guns

[@bigperm3853]

@sharky77 I have owned many. And any responsible person who has believes we should do all we can to keep them away from people who shouldn't have em

[@mrrey8937]

Mr. Perry gets it! finally talk about the differences between legal law abiding gun owner versus criminal, and what constitutes as a firearm. Gotta love the part where he caught the activist guy out on "receivers" . The activist had no clue what a receiver was..........with a serious face to top it off!! "so, the handgun doesnt have a receiver".......Wilcox- "thats correct" . Breathtaking idiocy is running our country into the ground, hunting down law abiding US citizens for political reasons and letting the criminals go with a pass based on political policies.

[@bmass0828]

@@bigperm3853 Just cause you have one does not mean you know what you're doing. Don't conflate over confidence and arrogance for knowledge.

[@davidhutchison7567]

The Bill of Rights does not give us the right. The Bill of Rights, being amended into The Constitution, does not give us the right. The right exists under natural law. The documents are just a recognition of those rights.

[@fredlebhart1393]

this ^

[@spoot8835]

Exactly, God given rights, the paper just backs up the inalienable rights.

[@WNActivist88]

They are restrictions on what the federal government can do, for the most part

[@IronCavalier]

@@WNActivist88 Yes. NOT the states nor citizens.

[@OutnBacker]

This is the way I explain Natural Rights to people who hate guns: Many people don't believe in God. That is the crux of the problem when we shout about "God-given rights!" I don't even use that argument. Many of the Founders were not Christians in the sense that we might see today, either. They were Deists, who believed that the Bible is to be read and followed, but thatGod is basically finished with His work, and we are here to live as best we can with what we have and with what we can do. Thus, they cite Nature's God or Natural Law, which pre-supposes that an animal has a defensive response to a threat - and so do humans. Animals have speed, claws, teeth or antlers. People do not, so we must defend ourselves with whatever means we can grasp in our hands or make with our ingenuity. Rarely, a thoughful listener will actually understand that we are animals and have that right to respond to a threat we cannot run away from. Rarely.

[@saxon1177]

You know they feel stupid when their face turns 3 shades of red.

[@dcsteve7869]

1) It takes a little more than two hand tools to manufacture even a polymer blank into a receiver and 2) it's not illegal to manufacture your own firearm for personal use and ownership. Not anywhere in the law is it illegal. Blanks, parts, pieces or other unmachined parts are NOT ever nor have ever been defined as a "firearm". It's even specifically stated in the 922 that parts individual or otherwise are NOT firearms as defined.

[@pouterbuttercup9665]

Exactly why he was telling him he's unqualified to even talk on the issue.

[@thomaspavelko9412]

It is however illegal to assist somebody making one especially if you do part of the work. This little Communists just admitted more than once to Breaking federal law in this hearing.

[@NavyCWO]

Actually it is not a one or two hour task to make a polymer 80 into a functioning handgun. That is, if you want to make it into a reliable firearm! There is a lot of hand fitting required and assembling fitting and reassembling and testing!

[@thomaspavelko9412]

@@NavyCWO alot of trial & error,more then a few cuss words tossed in for good measure. Every time I see or hear about some scumbag try to rob and or shoot someone and there handgun malfunction first though is 'Yea them 80% are not all as easy as the Democrats told you huh?".

[@sirbruce5978]

Rep Perry smoked this turkey!!!

[@420folife]

I laughed so hard when he said a drill with a hand crank 😂

[@kckeithc]

Yeah, I'd like to see him shoot that gun he described making. 🙄

[@samj1185]

I suppose w/ a set of hand files and a ton of time you could get it done? The ignorance of these people is astonishing.

[@user-neo71665]

It could be done. I damn sure wouldn't want to build anything with non powered tools. I mean crap if you can afford a gun kit surely you can afford a $100 drill from walmart. Then again surely all the criminals ordering gun kits have no issue stealing a drill.

[@OneWildTurkey]

@@user-neo71665 A nice electric or battery operated drill from Walmart is down to about $15 now.

[@Ac22768]

Why?

[@jh491]

This dude got exposed so bad, the best photograoher in the world couldn't recover that picture

[@chucksmoko5348]

The best part was he know damn well he was walking into it the whole time BUT continued right along the way. 👏

[@Rorschach1024]

No, the Supreme Court specifically and CLEARLY ruled that balancing is not part of the legal process. Unless there is a legal analog of the law in question from the time of the founders, then the law is PRESUMPTIVELY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

[@adamsowers8957]

Since the founding of this country it has been legal to manufacture your own arms.

[@calebwilson1225]

We should require a firearm safety course with shooting task for all state and federal law makers to hold office

[@mezmerizer0266]

Nah, just for anti gun lawmakers

[@kckeithc]

I agree, especially since they made such a fuss over the unarmed "insurrection" at the Capitol... They could just defend themselves.

[@--press]

If we would reinstate the draft was mandatory everybody served two years... In time everyone would be trained in firearms Wir die Leute 💯❤️🇺🇸

[@adam_bbing]

mandatory military service to run for public office. min 8 years.

[@toddgaak422]

I'd settle for a mandatory test on the Constitution.

[@peterhessedal8539]

It takes a lot more than a hand file and hand drill along with an hour of spare time to make a polymer 80 build.

[@timlarson9193]

He didn't even know that whichever answer he gave, it was wrong! 😂😂😂😂

[@iamblaineful]

Do you know which parts legally make up a gun on both a handgun and a long rifle? I've got some shocking news for you, the witness was correct in both, the politician didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. The politicians don't know shit about the laws already written and don't even understand the definitions of what a gun is, it's shameful idiocy.

[@powerman1955]

Finally, a politician that knows what he's talking about!

[@fukwatuthink6698]

It doesn't matter how easy it is to do. It has never been illegal and has always been a right to make your own guns

[@mariaeussen1265]

How is it possible that noone wants to tell the truth????!!!!!!

[@brianbowman7348]

They *have* to lie because they're intentions are sinister. They play the game but secretly hate all of humanity so they indulge criminals, thugs, and deviants. A shattered world is more easily controlled.

[@MrLandslide84]

Bingo lol. I am a gun guy. But seriously? Even I know that with the right wood router, jig, and block. I can make an AR lower with jigs. $400 maybe. But it can make many more. Now, just as we want all legal people to own whatever. Illegal people are using the same methods sometimes. Or, one is selling them to a criminal party. I know, its not our responsibility. People should just act right. But who knows at this point. Most people are savage dummies.

[@richardturk7162]

Mr Perry told the truth he told the guy he doesn't know what he is talking about.

[@iamblaineful]

@@richardturk7162 He was absolutely incorrect, the witness answered correctly, and that is verifiable on every damn long rifle or handgun you own. Go find the serial number on your gun, that's the "gun" part, the rest is not considered a "gun". Handguns it's the frame that contains the FCU, and long rifles it's the receiver that contains the FCU, this is the gun. FCU(Fire Control Unit - the trigger assembly). This isn't hard math, the politician was completely wrong and straight up lied. The witness actually told the truth. Now go check your guns for their serial number, FFS. Mr Perry is either plain grossly ignorant, or a straight-up liar, its your choice.

[@northdakotaham1752]

@@iamblaineful The point was....which you missed entirely, is that the frame or receiver, when purchased, has no ability to be used as a firearm because you cannot install a FCU as you call it, and as much as you try, you will not be able to install a trigger unless you perform several stages of "manufacturing processes" in order to eventually make it into something that can be used as a firearm. An unfinished frame or receiver is NOT a firearm because it has not been completely manufactured.

[@enigma9971]

As soon as our weapons are gone any criminal can just take from us with impunity.

[@michaellovetere8033]

That's exactly what our founder's realized

[@WNActivist88]

I love seeing him getting owned. He doesn't know what he's talking about, and he has no rights to be directing the ATF to do anything.

[@basherhound1234]

That so called gun expert didn’t know that both rifles and pistols both has a frame and receiver.

[@billmcleangunsmith]

The balancing of interests test was struck down in the Bruin decision. Text, history, and tradition are the tests used to determine if a gun law is Constitutional.

[@davidcurry725]

Dude out here saying he watched KZbin. Lol. That’s like saying you could watch a painting tutorial and become Michael Angelo.

[@itzmikeomg2755]

That is how you do it Mr. Perry. Bravo.

[@deniswauchope3788]

Well done, Rep. Perry! Yeah, it's kinda hard to fire the "pistol" when it arrives in the mail as a bunch of unfinished parts. That "expert" doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground! #AbolishTheATF

[@callMeMK]

A bunch? It's a drill and a file. It's not a home made pipe pistol from home Depot. It's a machined, designed gun that needs a small re-working. Ingredients aren't a meal. But we don't pretend a grocery store isnt a place to get food

[@TommyGunz327]

@@callMeMK all irrelevant. We have a right to make our own firearms in the comfort of our home.

[@callMeMK]

@@TommyGunz327 Not before the second AMENDMENT It was amended for that right. Back when it took 1-5 minutes to reload a firearm. It was amended once. But it can't be amended again? Calling it irrelevant as you did is an appeal to tradition, which is a fallacy

[@callMeMK]

@@TommyGunz327 saying it's irrelevant because we CAN do it now, During a hearing about if we should make it illegal. Is like telling a judge "you can't send me to jail. I'm currently not incarcerated, therefore I am a free man, I should stay a free man"

[@tcorris]

Under ATF’s definition of gun, Home Depot and Lowe’s might soon have to register as FFLs because the pipes they sell can be “readily converted” into shotguns, requiring a NICS background check to purchase pipe.

[@KonigGustavAdolph]

In defense of the gun grabber, no one can really articulate a good answer to that question because the ATF "definition" is worthless.

[@Demonicpurity]

Considering that the ATF are the gun grabber movements child that is a terrible defense.

[@Billy420-69]

That's a feature, not a bug.

[@ronaldjohnson1474]

Why defend gun grabbers? What part of "shall not infringe" don't you understand? Shouldn't take long to look up three words in the dictionary.

[@KonigGustavAdolph]

@ronaldjohnson1474 One of the things that I find humorous about the 2A YT comment crowd is how stunningly unsophisticated y'all can be. I am a member of numerous 2A groups. The point that so expertly eluded your grasp is that ATF's definition is so "Arbitrary and Capricious" in its unreasonable final form so that one may one clearly articulate what a "firearm" is, in their definition. But you read the first six words of my comment and got triggered. There are NPCs everywhere. Try not to be one.

[@kckeithc]

Then he shouldn't be defending the definition.

[@mikepelosi9877]

He's lying. You need more than a drill and a hammer. You also need skills and abilities to understand how to build it, how to troubleshoot things when they go wrong, how to build a slide, how to install sights, etc. This is amplified to a greater degree of difficulty if you're 3d printing a frame/receiver.

[@TaxTheChurches.]

Do you need a license to learn how to make one? If you’re a violent felon, are you suddenly unable, not skilled enough to build this gun?

[@wyomins]

​@@TaxTheChurches. vio Violent felons do not follow laws and will not be deterred from using whatever tool they deem necessary to carry out their crimes. Whether that is a gun stolen from a house, one they make themselves, or one a knife. The point is laws do nothing to deter crime and prevent the law abiding from exercising their rights as outlined in the Constitution.

[@Kickliberalsout]

Exactly I’ve seen the video you need actual parts to make it work.

[@mikepelosi9877]

@@TaxTheChurches. Not sure what you're asking. If you're a violent felon and couldn't get this "gun" you could buy a 3D printer, print it, go to Home Depot, get something that resembles the parts, modify them, buy a slide, buy ammo and hope that it works. The pistol frame is a block of plastic. Any felon can get access to that. Same with 3D printers. And if you don't have a drill, you could probably get away with an Xacto Knife. And if you didn't have a hammer, wrap a brick in clothing and use an end. If you couldn't afford the whole slide, you could 3D print one and then head back to Home Depot. Or, if you're a felon, maybe you'll just skip the $400-$600 all this costs (minimum) and find a different weapon to commit your crime, or maybe you'll go steal a gun from a lawful owner instead. I suppose in the interim we should license and restrict 3D printers, plastic, screws, punch pins, springs, aluminum, the internet (for the directions for all these things), nail files, and maybe even the ability to leave your house? Of course, if you wanted any of these things for non-firearm related reasons, you would also have to get a license to own plastic and have access to the internet because if you're not a felon, maybe you're one in the making!

[@northdakotaham1752]

Without some other devices such as jigs and a vice, you will end up drilling in the wrong place and destroy whatever it is you are trying to build. I have drilled many holes with a hand drill and to get them straight without some type of support is pretty much impossible.

[@Highnz57]

😂🤣😂🤣 This was great. I could've watched this go on for hours.

[@williamryan9195]

"I'm not an expert but I did take a lot of money from Michael Bloomberg to make sure you don't have Constitutional Rights."

[@whydoyougottahavthis]

Give them an inch, they'll take a mile and never stop

[@Rebel-Unit]

That is exactly what happened with the marijuana legalization. Then they all wanted shrooms legal and then other stuff.

[@stanislavkogan]

Fun fact: In Soviet Union an ordinary citizen had no legal access to any kind of metal working machinery beyond a drill, precisely for the reason of gun control. The future in which organizations like ATF would enact similar restrictions is not as far fetched as one might think.

[@RonSafreed]

WoW Stanislav so only certain folk could not use metal working machinery & I assume they were members of the communist party!! Am I right??Good little red-commies that loved Lenin & Stalin??

[@philr182]

I love listening to people talk about something they are 100% clueless on.

[@cliffjohnson2273]

There have been a few criminals that have tried to buy a gun in a licensed gun shop but have been arrested. Just like there has been a few that has passed a note at bank to rob it and the note was on the back of a check.

[@claytonevans5721]

Matt Gates said it beautifully regarding the ATF

[@Rockhound6165]

Gaetz not Gates.

[@--press]

I didn't know that the Department of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms could make legislation... I thought only members of Congress in Washington DC and all the state capitals could make legislation & LAWS !!! Wir die Leute 💯❤️🇺🇸

[@buellboy007]

Gun control is about racism and slavery This Patriotic Veteran approves this mesg Gun deaths There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. The U.S. population is 324,059,091 as of June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.00925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death: • 65% of those deaths are by suicide, which would never be prevented by gun laws. • 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified. • 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons - better known as gun violence. • 3% are accidental discharge deaths. So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Now lets look at how those deaths spanned across the nation. • 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago • 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore • 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit • 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years) So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause. This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1. Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California, of course, but understand, it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states. So if all cities and states are not created equal, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths. Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in comparison to other deaths? All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission of a crime but that is the nature of crime. Robbery, death, rape, assault are all done by criminals. It is ludicrous to think that criminals will obey laws. That is why they are called criminals. But what about other deaths each year? • 40,000+ die from a drug overdose-THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT! • 36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths. • 34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities(exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide). Now it gets good: • 200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors. You are safer walking in the worst areas of Chicago than you are when you are in a hospital! • 710,000 people die per year from heart disease. It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! So what is the point? If the liberal loons and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total number of gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides ................ Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions! So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns? It's pretty simple: Taking away guns gives control to governments. The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as the British did by trying to disarm the populace of the colonies. It is not difficult to understand that a disarmed populace is a controlled populace. Thus, the second amendment was proudly and boldly included in the U.S. Constitution. It must be preserved at all costs. So the next time someone tries to tell you that gun control is about saving lives, look at these facts and remember these words from Noah Webster: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed." What ever happen to up hold the Oath of office to protect and up hold the CONSTITUTION of the USA....NOT MAKE YOUR OWN RULES/LAWS... please stand for America

[@superchicken5000]

Wow! That’s awesome!

[@SquirrelTheater]

Very well stated.

[@christinecolon5472]

It isn't the gun that kills, it is the person that uses the gun that kills. Until you can change a person's mind nothing will change.

[@webstella]

How can you be so sure it's not the hand drill and file that does it?

[@northdakotaham1752]

@@webstella I wonder how many people have been killed by those sharp files? They are really sharp on the end...if you have ever used one.

[@dubjubs]

​@webstella I don't know let me ask my AR if he's okay. I'll put him on Zoloft if he's depressed (clearly sarcasm)

[@jarberwoks8399]

both long guns and handguns can have receivers.

[@genelegate1308]

Looks like the term “Ghost Gun” kinda casts a wide net just as the term “Assault Rifle” does. Would it maybe be possible to focus more on the human element of crime as opposed to the inanimate objects?

[@sorimasn]

If they stop using scary catch all terms, people will start to understand that these laws won’t stop criminals from committing crimes. They can’t have that.

[@depthcharge6215]

He got caught obviously and you can see him trying to spin it otherwise.

[@tibedog5629]

All firearms have receivers... holy god.

[@adamcuster8181]

There is absolutely NO way that ANYONE finished one with a HAND DRILL in an hour.

[@O.J._is_Guilty]

The look on the witnesses face after each question at the end is priceless😂it’s the face of like how stupid am I looking right now trying to answer these questions that I know nothing about. For some reason democrats seem to call people that are so close minded they are incapable of answering half the room honestly bc it would expose how stupid the other half’s questions and answers are

[@millirabbit4331]

Or Scott Perry needs to let the guy speak.

[@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710]

@@millirabbit4331 He spoke. He spoke about the frame and receiver being one and the same.

[@kscape100]

Ignorance: you have to get people who enjoy their ignorance to lie like this.

[@docgillygun9531]

Quick question. If I pick up a baseball, or any other object for that matter, and throw it does that make my arm a firearm? I'm concerned that our current administration may very well incorporate that into their nebulous rules.

[@stitchjones4028]

Negative, that makes it a projectile. Not illegal unless you throw it from a moving vehicle. I had someone throw a hammer at my car from another car. That's how I found that out.

[@jason60chev]

The iron ore, from the ground, can "readily" be assembled , so, it, too, is a firearm.

[@Rockhound6165]

Well, if you're Nolan Ryan maybe.

[@mcsaldana12]

It makes your arm a catapult, not a firearm.. which I believe are not regulated by the AFT.. yet

[@codyharney2997]

"Deadly missile" is the legal term.

[@cujoedaman]

Scott Perry playing chess with Ro Wilcox. He set up the pieces, waited for a mistake to be made and then 'checkmate'.

[@chrisniceley2744]

Close the ATF DOWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@1122Hoochie-Coochie-Coo]

The ATF needs to be abolished. Full stop.

[@brodyjohnt]

Man, that's on gun point!!

[@leroywatermelon4025]

"Hand guns don't have receivers" 😂😂😂

[@mitchellwells1021]

I didn’t hear the words hammer or firing pin or ejector rod etc. Clearly this guy doesn’t know Jack about anything. This guy is from the ATF reminds me of Barney Fife

[@ashleyroachclip1]

i bet old Barney at least knew the in and outs of his trusty police revolver 🤣

[@michaellovetere8033]

Barney Fife....hahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ralphsawyer9535]

Thank you Scott Perry.

[@mtnbound2764]

thank yo to forbes for bringing us this gold.

[@devildoc4257]

Well if it's not a law that is constitutional I won't follow it. If they come to my door then they become enemy combatants and will be treated as such.

[@iamblaineful]

Good luck with that approach to life...

[@devildoc4257]

@@iamblaineful been working for 52 years so good luck with the government running yours. You need the government I dont. I feel sorry for people like you I really do.

[@TommyGunz327]

@@iamblaineful good luck being a coward and allowing leftist terrorists to subvert this country and take it over.

[@Jakehava]

@@iamblaineful, so you don't agree with the old "Live free or die" motto (see NH state emblem), or ol' Patrick Henry saying “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”? So, go ahead and choose your precious life over freedom, over liberty, and enjoy your chains of slavery.

[@willm1574]

Absolutely nailed it. “If it’s an operational firearm when you get it why are you filing and drilling?”

[@lindaamelung145]

😎GO PERRY!!

[@benjamindecker2020]

YES!! Thank you sir

[@tclodfelter8789]

NO! They are writin rules and regulations... NOT LAWS that are written by Congress!

[@epia125]

I know for the AR 80% you need more than a hand drill and file. Regardless who cares, the ATF said 80% and agreed the lowers were only 80% complete. Now they are going back on their initial determination.

[@PRLcafe]

It was GLORIOUS.

[@truenoguy4159]

Defund the ATF!!!!

[@reallybadaim118]

This guy is the sort of guy that has watched that old KZbin video of that man making a cable shorter and polishing it and showing a fictitious big jump and speed and he believes it

[@_Jay_Maker_]

How can this guy be in charge of anything relating to firearms when he doesn't know that both handguns and longguns have "receivers?" Asinine.

[@ddemonjjv]

Great Ball breaking by Mr. Perry.

[@sickvendetta9]

Well done sir!

[@jesusfon5619]

Was it operational before you modified it? Is a better question.

[@JT_life2022]

Nobody should be making laws or rules about guns but good grief, we have people who don’t know the butt from the barrel making law abiding citizens felons. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@chevylover6716]

No Shit! Come on People!! 🙏🇺🇸

[@johng3868]

Excellent !

[@jasonlamanna6680]

Watching him squirm in his chair trying to skirt the obvious answers was priceless. I think we should mandate electroshock lie detectors in these types of hearings. That would make it way more entertaining.

[@clintstudt3796]

We shall never surrender no matter the cost !

[@everett8610]

HOLD THE LINE!

[@KShadow1776]

Amazing!

[@HomesteadDNA]

I have a toothpick, I can readily convert it into a nuclear warhead. Just need some more parts instructions and tools. This toothpick, is a nuclear warhead.

[@andywarrington4738]

the weapon , tool etc never kills , the user does

[@Tool01011]

That's awesome!

[@williamjonas4013]

SO WHAT IF A PISTOL BRACE ON A PISTOL CONSTITUTES A SHORT RIFLE SO WHAT ?

[@tclodfelter8789]

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[@philipmitchener28]

That's like telling me that the components of a rocket, unassembled, are a rocket, and thus we can use them, in that state, to safely fly a man to the moon.