Where are all the gun monkies?

[Taichiliberal]

Okay, has anyone seen this story in your local/local affiliate news broadcasts on TV or radio, or read it in your local news papers? Now what I find interesting is that neither the host or the guy being interviewed emphasize the DISTINCT probability that this incident was racially motivated, but the video title suggest such. Anyway, check it out.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eWJXW_vYTA&list=WL&index=1

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Special Report: The Terror of a Wrongful ATF Raid - TheGunMag - The Official Gun Magazine of the Second Amendment Foundation

Mark “Choppa” Manley is a gun owner, a gun collector and a Second Amendment advocate who has more than 70 legally owned firearms

www.thegunmag.com

The Manley family was never told, at least officially, why they were mistakenly targeted by the ATF.

“I have done nothing illegal. I don’t sell guns. I don’t own any machineguns,” Manley said.

“The search warrant said he is a felon,” Mrs. Manley said. “It said he is a felon in possession of firearms.”

“I don’t have any felony record,” Manley said.

Their home was terribly damaged in the raid. It needs new floors in the living room and in their son’s bedroom because of the flash-bang grenades, and their front and rear doors still remain shattered. The police canine feces the family cleaned up themselves.

The agents asked Manley why “someone would make up stuff about you?”

“Are you kidding me?” Manley said. “I made it out of the inner city and poverty. People who are still there know me and envy what I’ve become. I do all of the giving back, but there is still hate and jealousy. Someone must have gotten caught with something and said, ‘Mark’s got all kinds of guns.’ To this day we just don’t know. Someone must have gotten caught and said some lies. It was all too easy for them to kick down my doors.”

Manley and his family have started a Go Fund Me page, which so far has raised more than $18,000. They are also speaking with several attorneys.

Neither Toni M. Crosby, the Special Agent in Charge of ATF’s Baltimore Field Division, nor Katherine Rottman, the office’s Public Information Officer, returned calls or emails Thursday afternoon.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Why Did the ATF Raid Baltimore Gun Rights Advocate Mark ‘Choppa’ Manley’s House?

Manley, who is described as a gun rights advocate and lives in Baltimore, thinks the raid by agents in battle rattle was an attempt to send a message to other black gun owners.

www.shootingnewsweekly.com

This is how the federal agency that’s charged with regulating firearms conducts its business. According to the Washington Times, “ATF agents announced themselves to Mark ‘Choppa’ Manley and his family by tossing a flashbang into his living room and ordering everyone out at gunpoint during the predawn search days before Thanksgiving.”

Manley, who is described as a gun rights advocate and lives in Baltimore, thinks the raid by agents in battle rattle was an attempt to send a message to other black gun owners.

“I do feel like I was targeted. I do feel like the amount of guns I have made me a target and [put] me on their radar,” Mr. Manley told The Times. “Especially being a minority from the inner city.”

It isn’t really clear what the feds were looking for in the raid. They spent hours tossing Manley’s home, checking gun serial numbers, and ultimately confiscating his phone. But no one was charged or arrested and no guns were confiscated.

Harassment has been a hallmark of the ATF since the Biden administration launched its war on legal gun ownership not long after it took office. And the agency is, of course, refusing to comment on the case.

Mr. Manley’s growing profile put him in a league of gun owners, dealers and advocates who have either been monitored, approached or, arguably, harassed by the ATF in recent years.

Was ATF acting on bad information? Were they trying to provoke Manley into breaking the law? Whatever their motivation, the raid could have gone much, much worse. It wasn’t long ago that ATF decided that an early morning raid on the home of Bryan Malinowski was preferable to stopping him on his way to or from his place of work. Malinowski thought it was a home invasion, armed himself, and the ATF’s finest shot and killed him.

[Gun rights advocate Maj] Toure said the raid at Mr. Manley’s home was likely done in hopes of provoking the advocate into doing something criminal. At the very least, he said the ATF is putting on a “poker face” to try and intimidate Mr. Manley from organizing gun owners in the future.

“What’s happening is they’re trying to scare people — bluff them — into thinking ‘I better not do this. I better be quiet about it.’” Mr. Toure said. “The wrong party here is the ATF. Not the Constitution, not the Bill of Rights, not the American people that are safe and responsible firearms owners.”

January 20th can’t get here soon enough.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Nothing new. The ATF has conducted such "raids" against otherwise law-abiding citizens going back to at least the Clinton administration, if not earlier.

 

[Taichiliberal]

Special Report: The Terror of a Wrongful ATF Raid - TheGunMag - The Official Gun Magazine of the Second Amendment Foundation

Mark “Choppa” Manley is a gun owner, a gun collector and a Second Amendment advocate who has more than 70 legally owned firearms

www.thegunmag.com

The Manley family was never told, at least officially, why they were mistakenly targeted by the ATF.

“I have done nothing illegal. I don’t sell guns. I don’t own any machineguns,” Manley said.

“The search warrant said he is a felon,” Mrs. Manley said. “It said he is a felon in possession of firearms.”

“I don’t have any felony record,” Manley said.

Their home was terribly damaged in the raid. It needs new floors in the living room and in their son’s bedroom because of the flash-bang grenades, and their front and rear doors still remain shattered. The police canine feces the family cleaned up themselves.

The agents asked Manley why “someone would make up stuff about you?”

“Are you kidding me?” Manley said. “I made it out of the inner city and poverty. People who are still there know me and envy what I’ve become. I do all of the giving back, but there is still hate and jealousy. Someone must have gotten caught with something and said, ‘Mark’s got all kinds of guns.’ To this day we just don’t know. Someone must have gotten caught and said some lies. It was all too easy for them to kick down my doors.”

Manley and his family have started a Go Fund Me page, which so far has raised more than $18,000. They are also speaking with several attorneys.

Neither Toni M. Crosby, the Special Agent in Charge of ATF’s Baltimore Field Division, nor Katherine Rottman, the office’s Public Information Officer, returned calls or emails Thursday afternoon.

Here's the thing: you have those who are right of center on this issue that are quick to "it's all Biden's fault" parroting. But this issue with the ATF had been around for a LONG time, and you'd be hard pressed for either some liberal or conservative to admit they have some common ground here: www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/19/atf-s-greatest-hits

And where is the NRA in all this?

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Here's the thing: you have those who are right of center on this issue that are quick to "it's all Biden's fault" parroting. But this issue with the ATF had been around for a LONG time, and you'd be hard pressed for either some liberal or conservative to admit they have some common ground here: www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/19/atf-s-greatest-hits

And where is the NRA in all this?

NRA-ILA | Biden’s ATF Runs Wild in His Waning Days, Targets Second Amendment Activist

Joe Biden is less than three weeks away from retiring as arguably the worst president of the modern era.

www.nraila.org

Joe Biden is less than three weeks away from retiring as arguably the worst president of the modern era. Joining him at the exits will be his ATF director, Steven Dettelbach, who announced his own resignation, effective Jan. 18. Law-abiding gun owners and firearm businesses are breathing a sigh of relief that they will no longer be in the crosshairs of the Biden-Harris administration’s “whole of government approach” to Second Amendment suppression. Yet the ATF’s recent sacking of a Second Amendment activist’s family home shows an embittered, defeated, and corrupted anti-gun regime getting in its final licks on the way out the door.

The story will sound all too familiar to those acquainted with ATF’s history of overbearing brutishness against peaceful American families.

Mark “Choppa” Manley is a family man, gun collector, Second Amendment activist, and an intervention specialist for his local public school district. Intervention specialists work with students experiencing barriers to academic success by assessing needs, delivering targeted instruction, and collaborating with others to ensure comprehensive support. Those skills may have saved his and his family members’ lives when ATF agents launched a predawn, SWAT-style raid against their Baltimore home on Nov. 21 of last year.

The justification for the raid, and the necessity of ATF’s heavy-handed tactics against the non-resisting couple and their underage children, remain unexplained. Manley himself believes his pro-gun outreach to the Black community (America’s fastest-growing segment of new gun owners) may have made him a target.

As Manley explained to investigative journalist Lee Williams, the morning started out as most of the family’s working days do, as he and his wife, also a school teacher, awoke early. Manley’s wife, who requested that her name be withheld for privacy reasons, went down to the kitchen shortly after 4:00 a.m. to make coffee. It was there she noticed people moving toward the home, leading her to shout a warning to her husband.

 

[Taichiliberal]

NRA-ILA | Biden’s ATF Runs Wild in His Waning Days, Targets Second Amendment Activist

Joe Biden is less than three weeks away from retiring as arguably the worst president of the modern era.

www.nraila.org

Joe Biden is less than three weeks away from retiring as arguably the worst president of the modern era. Joining him at the exits will be his ATF director, Steven Dettelbach, who announced his own resignation, effective Jan. 18. Law-abiding gun owners and firearm businesses are breathing a sigh of relief that they will no longer be in the crosshairs of the Biden-Harris administration’s “whole of government approach” to Second Amendment suppression. Yet the ATF’s recent sacking of a Second Amendment activist’s family home shows an embittered, defeated, and corrupted anti-gun regime getting in its final licks on the way out the door.

The story will sound all too familiar to those acquainted with ATF’s history of overbearing brutishness against peaceful American families.

Mark “Choppa” Manley is a family man, gun collector, Second Amendment activist, and an intervention specialist for his local public school district. Intervention specialists work with students experiencing barriers to academic success by assessing needs, delivering targeted instruction, and collaborating with others to ensure comprehensive support. Those skills may have saved his and his family members’ lives when ATF agents launched a predawn, SWAT-style raid against their Baltimore home on Nov. 21 of last year.

The justification for the raid, and the necessity of ATF’s heavy-handed tactics against the non-resisting couple and their underage children, remain unexplained. Manley himself believes his pro-gun outreach to the Black community (America’s fastest-growing segment of new gun owners) may have made him a target.

As Manley explained to investigative journalist Lee Williams, the morning started out as most of the family’s working days do, as he and his wife, also a school teacher, awoke early. Manley’s wife, who requested that her name be withheld for privacy reasons, went down to the kitchen shortly after 4:00 a.m. to make coffee. It was there she noticed people moving toward the home, leading her to shout a warning to her husband.

Okay. I guess after all the corruption under LaPierre, there's not the same mass publicity/PR they use to have. Although given what happened to John White nearly 20 years ago, their current recognition of bias against black gun owners (federal and local law enforcement) makes this latest complaint a day late and a dollar short.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Okay. I guess after all the corruption under LaPierre, there's not the same mass publicity/PR they use to have.

Although given what happened to John White nearly 20 years ago, their current recognition of bias against black gun owners (federal and local law enforcement) makes this latest complaint a day late and a dollar short.

They've lost a lot of funding, mine included.

Racial bias on the part of US law enforcement is not the fault of the NRA or any other 2nd Amendment supporting group.

 

[RB 60]

Okay. I guess after all the corruption under LaPierre, there's not the same mass publicity/PR they use to have. Although given what happened to John White nearly 20 years ago, their current recognition of bias against black gun owners (federal and local law enforcement) makes this latest complaint a day late and a dollar short.

Show us this bias toward black gun owners by the NRA.
As for local and federal law enforcement, The NRA is the largest private organization who trains them. Try to dispute that fact.

 

[EdwinA]

Don't know the whole story, but it's obvious the Manley family is not a mob of halfwits trying to win Darwin Awards for being black, like most of the hood rats Democrats fawn over. I hope they win a big damage award if the story is true. No mention of them making any stupid rants in the innernetz in the report, either. WE do know Democrats hate sane black and latino people and disparage and harass them as a matter of policy, so I'm not surprised they would target the Manleys for special harassment.