Coming back to the story of Bryan Malinowski where we last looked at his execution by an ATF hit squad: Don’t Be Dumb. More details are coming out on this story and kudos to Lee Williams for staying on this one. He posted again on the story on his Substack: Who will ATF shoot next? and asks an important question:
Who holds ATF accountable? The Biden-Harris administration certainly won’t. ATF leadership is operating under the administration’s explicit orders. Their agents have become foot soldiers in Joe Biden’s war on our guns.
Unless the agency and its leadership are held accountable, only one question remains: Who will ATF shoot next?
The answer is simple: anyone they damn well want to shoot.
We are seeing a little more of what happened, including a neighbor’s doorbell camera recording the 10 vehicles rolling up to his house. Yes, ten vehicles of agents, all armed to the teeth and looking for trouble, to serve a warrant on a man with no criminal history. Perhaps the most damning is this picture that is making the rounds:
The picture shows the moment an ATF agent holding a ballistic shield puts a piece of tape over the doorbell camera, ensuring that no one in the house could see the words “POLICE” emblazoned on the shield or that the intruders were wearing uniforms. The entire point of wearing conspicuous uniforms is to inform the public that the wearer is a law enforcement officer but here we have a hit squad covering up the camera so even if Mr. Malinowski were to try to see who was at his door, he wouldn’t be able to view them. The attorney for the Malinowski family, Bud Cummins, has released a statement:
ATF surveilled Bryan for multiple days. They followed him in cars. They watched him at gun shows and even purchased firearms from him. They placed a tracking device on his vehicle, and then obtained a warrant to search his car and phone. They executed that warrant at 6:00 am on March 19, 45 minutes before first light and over one hour before sunrise.
At this stage there is no publicly available evidence showing whether agents knocked on the door or announced their presence, adequately identifying themselves. Bryan’s wife Maer only heard loud banging immediately followed by the crash of the front door being forced open. Absent exigent circumstances (danger of losing evidence-drugs down the toilet; propensity for violence or escape) case law requires law enforcement officers to give dwelling occupants a reasonable time to come to the door and let them in.
Bryan Malinowski was asleep but rose to the sound of the door crashing and located a firearm. His wife believed the noise must have been intruders and she fully believes her husband thought the same. He loaded a magazine into a pistol and emerged from the master bedroom into a hallway leading indirectly to the front entryway. He reached a corner in the hall and looked around it to see several unidentifiable figures already several steps inside his home.
We do not know who shot first but it appears that Bryan shot approximately three times at a decidedly low angle, probably at the feet of the intruders who were roughly 30 feet away.
To reiterate, in the dark of the early morning before the sun was up and the average person is deep asleep, even a shouted declaration that you are with the ATF and have a search warrant would be unlikely to be heard or comprehended by a sleeping person, and with the doorbell camera covered there was no way to see who was out there. Once they kicked in the door, any reasonable and prudent person would assume the worst and be prepared to respond to a home invasion. As it turns out, it was a home invasion by an armed hit squad that was dispatched to make an example of Bryan Malinowski and if he died, well that is just tough shit.
I won’t rehash all the details but obviously this individual could have been served with a warrant at any number of places that would not have necessitated ten vehicles full of armed assassins to apprehend one lone man in his own home, a man with no apparent criminal record (he frequently purchased firearms online, meaning he passed the background check when he picked up his firearm from his FFL). While I understand and respect the need for law enforcement to be cautious, is Bryan Malinowski the kind of person that they should have treated like a dangerous, violent criminal? Of course not.
For far too much of law enforcement, there is little functional difference between you as a private, law-abiding, tax-paying civilian and a hardened criminal who has committed multiple violent crimes. You are a suspect and in far too many cases, “suspect” to cops means “guilty”. Not all cops but too many, and more so for Federal law enforcement than local cops.
This will get worse. As I detailed in my post DEI Works To Our Advantage, Federal law enforcement agencies are lowering their hiring standards in order to attract more minority candidates (this is the source of the Breadcrumb-American term). As decent people are driven out by the increasingly politicized Federal law enforcement agencies and are replaced by political idealogues that are universally leftist, anti-White and anti-2nd Amendment along with minorities chosen to check off diversity boxes, what is left over are people who are going to be even more likely to view regular Americans as the enemy of the state and be less concerned about things like use of force rules and civil rights.
Just yesterday the Feds handed down new, unconstitutional rules that allegedly clamp down on the so-called “gun show loophole”
The Biden administration will take steps this week to crack down on unlicensed dealers selling firearms that bleed into the illegal market.
Under current rules, licensed dealers must perform background checks and log the make, model and serial numbers of guns sold, but hobbyists and infrequent traders don’t. Justice officials say too many guns are being sold under the so-called gun-show loophole and Internet loophole.
The new rules more clearly define who should join the 80,000 other federal firearms licensees and abide by existing law.
The expected result: at least 20,000 additional gun sellers who will now be required to perform the instant background checks that will stop them from selling to felons, domestic abusers and other prohibited buyers. Even a single firearm transaction may be sufficient to require a license, according to the rule, if there is other behavior to suggest commercial activity.
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Read that last line again: “Even a single firearm transaction may be sufficient to require a license, according to the rule, if there is other behavior to suggest commercial activity.”. Selling a single firearm may be enough to “suggest commercial activity” and even the suggestion of “commercial activity” as in the case of Bryan Malinowski can trigger an ATF hit squad to raid your home in ten vehicles, covering your doorbell camera and kicking down your door in the pitch black of early morning before assassinating you for defending your home.
I don’t care how much of a badass you think you are or how many tacticool accessories you have on your Daniel Defense AR. If you are in your home, sound asleep, and a tactical team hits your door wearing body armor and carrying rifles, you are going to die. You will not courageously fend them off. You will die, probably in your boxers or maybe a robe.
Just be careful out there. Be smart and be cautious. You should be able to buy and sell as you like but should be able to doesn’t mean you can and the current banana republic junta running America is looking for any excuse to send an armed squad of assassins to your home to drag you out in handcuffs or gun you down in your own home.
This was an execution plain and simple. These operations are deliberately set up to maximise the chances of a fatal outcome, they relish the idea of 'taking out' gun owners in a firefight.
Great work putting this all together, excellent article.