“Jackbooted Thugs Indeed“

“They were selling like hotcakes,” Akins said. “We were truly amazed by the response.”

That was until the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives banned the Accelerator — two years after approving it.

Emphasis friggin’ mine.

And …

The stop-production order came in an ATF letter dated Nov. 22, 2006. Besides mailing in all recoil springs in stock and his customer list, the agency demanded Akins send an affidavit to each customer to account for all the devices sold. The recipients had to sign the document and return it to the ATF with the removed springs.

Wade wouldn’t comment on Akins’ contention that the ATF erred in its decision-making.
“That’s the bottom line is that we believe it’s a machine gun,” the spokesman said. “End of story.“

Then take one out of the box and try to blow your fucking head off with it, already. What? Doesn’t work? Maybe because it’s a piece of plastic that doesn’t actually fire anything. But you know, details like that don’t matter to the SS ATF. This story pisses me off to no end.

We are the ATF, all your base are belong to us.