The ATF, America's 'Gaystapo,' Murders a Private Citizen
What the uncalled for execution of Bryan Malinowski tells us about 'law and order' in America
At 6 a.m. on Thursday March 20th, a team of federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms murdered Bryan Malinowski for not filling out paperwork.
The sexual deviants at the ATF deemed Malinowski in violation of the law through an entirely arbitrary and subjective reading of federal firearms regulations. They decided to launch a pre-dawn raid on his home despite the fact that he was an upper middle class married man with no known criminal record. The ATF alleges that Malinowski fired the first shot. The agents subsequently blew his brains out.
Malinowski was a prominent member of the Little Rock community. He was the director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, the state’s largest airport. He frequently met with business and government officials in a private and professional capacity.
Bryan Malinowski was clearly not a dangerous man. The crime he supposedly committed was selling firearms without a license, which is a completely and utterly bullshit regulation. For instance, in America, in most states (including Arkansas), it is legal to both buy and sell firearms privately—without a background check nor through a licensed dealer.
However, it is a crime if you buy and sell firearms too often or if you buy firearms explicitly to sell them for other people. Unfortunately, the law does not specify how much private buying and selling of firearms consists of “too much.” Here is the actual text of the ATF’s manual on firearm sales:
Federal law does not establish a “bright-line” rule for when a federal firearms license is required. As a result, there is no specific threshold number or frequency of sales, quantity of firearms, or amount of profit or time invested that triggers the licensure requirement. Instead, determining whether you are “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms requires looking at the specific facts and circumstances of your activities. Courts have upheld convictions for dealing without a license when as few as two firearms were sold, or when only a single transaction took place, when other factors were also present. [highlights my own]
Like so much else in lawless modern America, the government can simply decide, on a whim, whether or not you, as an ordinary citizen, qualify as an illegal seller of firearms. If the ATF decides that you do qualify then they can arrest you and charge you with multiple felonies even if all of your private party sales were otherwise legal.
The idiocy doesn’t stop there. It is also a crime to conduct a “straw purchase” of firearms. This means you cannot buy a firearm with the intention of turning around and selling it in a private party transaction. Mind you, you can sell a firearm in a private party transaction but only if you didn’t mean to do so when you first bought the gun. Again, this “crime” is completely arbitrary.
It is reasonable to bar felons from purchasing firearms, but the target of the enforcement of that law should, in virtually all cases, be the felon and not the seller. Imagine if we applied the same logic to things like cars and phones. Gang members use cellphones to buy and sell drugs. They use cars to conduct drive-by shootings. Imagine if we prosecuted the cellphone companies that sold them phones or the car salesmen who sold them vehicles.
The only time that a seller should be held accountable for selling firearms is in cases where he explicitly knew that the weapon would be used in the commission of a crime or when he explicitly knew that the purchaser was legally prohibited from owning a firearm.
Even if Malinowski had done this kind of thing, there was absolutely no justification for the ATF to launch a surprise pre-dawn raid on his home. Put yourselves in Malinowski’s shoes. You are a well-respected member of the community living in a wealthy, upscale neighborhood. You are fast asleep inside your house. It is dark outside. All of a sudden, you awake to shouting outside your home and see armed individuals closing in on your property.
What would you do? It makes sense that Malinowski would arm himself. The ATF alleges that Malinowski shot first, but they could very easily be lying. Moreover, the idea that a gunowner would shoot at armed men descending on his home in the dark is not inherently ridiculous. Malinowski, from what I can tell from reading the search warrant, did not have reason to suspect that he was under investigation. It is reasonable to assume that he was not expecting law enforcement to barge into his home.
In a case like his, the ATF could have simply waited to search Malinowski’s home during the day. They could have approached him at work, contacted his lawyer, or pulled him over and given him the search warrant. The ATF did not do any of those things because, I believe, they wanted to kill him. The ATF agents in charge of this investigation explicitly took steps to make sure the situation could easily lead to violence.
Raiding someone’s home in the dark of night is the kind of thing you do if the person you are arresting is an escaped serial killer or a known cartel member who is surrounded by henchmen. The idea that you would conduct this kind of raid, without warning, on someone who has committed a paperwork crime that is inherently nebulous is not just absurd but intentionally evil.
Personally, I think ATF agents get off on gunning down middle class White people. They enjoy the delectable moral feeling of cracking down on someone who is not a scum of the earth loser: “You thought that this man was an upstanding citizen but AKSHUALLY he was living in a double life as an arms dealer that’s why we had to shoot him in the head in front of his family. [He failed to fill out paperwork].”
The ATF has a track record of murdering innocent people—like when they killed 82 people (including 28 children) at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993.
In case you need even more evidence that the ATF is completely out of control, I will remind you that they decided to gun down Malinowski in a nation where drive by shootings with automatic weapons are a regular feature of life in certain “urban communities:”
The below video is a compilation of young Black men being murdered, on camera, by other Black men in Chicago. I encourage you all, including those with weak stomachs, to watch. Living in a nice White suburb in middle America can make it easy to enter a dreamworld. Time to snap back to reality:
Imagine going after men like Bryan Malinowski when inner city thugs will straight up post themselves committing multiple firearms related felonies on Instagram Live!
I know it will make some of you sad to hear this, but there is an obvious racial element in the Malinowski raid. He was a nice White man with a good job. If he had been a Black gangbanger in Chicago posting videos of himself on social media with illegal firearms, nine times out of ten the ATF wouldn’t have done anything. There is nothing respectable, in liberal circles, to putting Blacks in jail no matter how guilty they might be.
Bryan Malinowski is the dream of an ATF agent’s career. Wrecking the life of a middle class White male is an opportunity for sanctimonious moral preening that putting real criminals away can never match. The only way the feds could make it better is by goading the guy into giving them a reason to murder him.
Bryan Malinowski is a victim of a vicious and unaccountable government. He did not deserve to die. His death is a lesson in the moral turpitude of our ruling class. The manner of his senseless execution reveals how false the preening claims about “law and order” really are. We are not a nation of laws but a nation of edicts.
Good write-up. The regime uses pre-dawn no-knock raids to 1) intimidate and terrify regular people 2) allow opportunities for their confused and terrified victims to make mistakes, resulting in additional felony charges 3) murder its enemies, as you describe here. Now they don’t have to take Bryan Malinowski to trial and have a judge and jury scrutinize their policies. Criticism will come only from people like us. This is evil.
Even if Malinowski fired first, as they allege, that is no excuse to execute him. ATF is attempting to give itself cover. We must reject the conceit that defending yourself against a pre-dawn raid you knew nothing about is a capital offense justifying immediate execution.
Going after people like Malinowski pose almost no risk. Why? They’re not criminals. Going after bangers is hard work. It takes true dedication and can get bloody. I can go on and on, but the gist of what happened is, “Look at us. We’re the Government. You can’t stand against us. We’re going to make an example out of you.”