text: The ATF, Anarcho-Tyranny, and Parallel Christian SocietyBy Pastor Andrew IskerOn Friday, January 13, the ATF announced a new rule stating that stabilizing braces on what they had previously classified as “pistols” are now to be considered “short-barreled rifles.” Also, they must be registered as such by all manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and owners within 120 days or be charged with a felony. The apparent purpose of such a ruling is to punish the 40 million owners of such guns because they pose an electoral, political, and cultural threat to the ruling regime. And lest anyone be confused, the “ruling regime” does not mean the nominal head installed in the White House; it means the Permanent Government, of which the Administrative State is a major part, which includes the ATF.That the Administrative State and its organs, such as the ATF, even exist is an affront to the heritage of the U.S. Constitution and Anglo-Saxon common law tradition. The Constitution you thought we had no longer exists. Our form of government originates in Anglo-Saxon witans, which represented the nation as a whole and developed and enforced the common law as it was handed down over the generations. Having armies of parasitic bureaucrats responsible to no one decreeing their laws is far more akin to empires that lorded over innumerable slaves. It is not something a free people tolerate. But such is the American Total State. All of life is politicized and lorded over by unelected vermin.And the point of the Administrative State in our decaying global empire is to enforce anarcho-tyranny. Look at the ATF, for example. Right now, America is facing the greatest epidemic of violent gun crime in decades (perhaps ever, as crime statistics are often underreported for propagandistic reasons). After the “mostly peaceful” anti-white race-hate riots of 2020, American police pulled back from actively policing high-crime urban neighborhoods.This was a matter of policy giving in to the rioters’ demands and out of officer self-preservation (what officer wants to be the next Derek Chauvin, sent to prison for decades for aggressively restraining the wrong overdosing felon at the wrong time?). As a result of the police withdrawal in these urban areas, black gun deaths and traffic deaths have significantly increased, as well as violent crime overall. Things have gotten so bad that the violent crime has begun to spill out of the major cities and even into sleepy farm towns, such as Janesville, MN, population of 2453 (and ten minutes from where I sit writing this).You would think the agency dealing with illegal weapons would be all hands on deck mitigating the urban gun crime epidemic. And also the ubiquitous and very illegal Glock switches, regularly used in the commission of inner-city gang violence. But if you thought that, you would be dead wrong. The ATF is far more concerned with rural, white men owning AR pistols (for defense against criminals invading their home, no less!) than they are about dead black children shot in the head during drive-by shootings. This is only hypocrisy if you don’t understand what is going on. The Regime and its Administrative State understand the fundamental rule of politics—politics is about rewarding friends and harming enemies. The ATF using its vast resources to investigate and prosecute the suppliers of illegal weapons used in urban crime, would reward its enemies and harm its friends.Allowing urban crime to metastasize harms the enemies of the Regime, and the criminals themselves are very much the Regime’s friends—the BLM riots have shown us just how useful and loyal they are to the Regime. It is no coincidence that every arsonist looter Kyle Rittenhouse justifiably shot was a criminal. The foot soldiers of Leftism, from 1789 to 1917 to today, are always criminals, the “useful idiots.” Meanwhile, guys in F-250s flying MAGA flags that have a braced AR pistol? The Regime would love any excuse to throw guys like that in prison.