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2023-06-23 -Land of the Free
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Antifa/BLM cadres open gun shop, give free classes, get raided
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In which a 2nd Amendment-focussed writer for Bearing Arms makes his point but misses the bigger picture — and we get more Black Bloc names for Rantburg’s archives. What happens when former hookers prostitutes sex workers
...the oldest profession was legal (though not always unregulated) for thousands and perhaps even millions of years. That never has made it something most people want their daughters doing...
, who are BLM supporters, subscribe to Antifa
 ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
ideologies, and practice the Mandalorian religion
...sorry — fan groups are not real religions, but excuses to cover what they were going to do anyway for considerably less savoury reasons — especially when they admit openly they aren’t actually believers... start teaching firearms classes for free? They get busted on something. A duo of advocates for firearm ownership for all, "anyone who is not a white supremacist,"
...which to them is not about skin colour or actual beliefs, but not being the right kind of leftwing radical... opened up a business in 2021 because "it was really really hard for me to get a rifle for home defense.
That’s “home defense”, sometimes actively defended during street riots far from home, and sometimes resulting in felony convictions, but do go on... Up here [upstate New York in Ontario County], if the stores don’t like the look of ya, they’ll just give you the runaround."
I had a chance to chat with the Director General and Treasurer of Red Right Hand Rifle Syndicate, LLC, the DBA of parent company Stea Rosie Rifle Syndicate LLC, from Victor, New York. Their story is pretty interesting. The business and partners, according to them, were subject to a New York State Police bust, they were victimized further when responding officers allegedly fabricated evidence, and were subjected to signing documents under duress.
Keenan Fisher and Theresa Krenzer are the Director General and Treasurer of Red Right Hand Rifle Syndicate, LLC, respectively. Due to past instances of threatened violence, doxing, and having had, as Fisher said, "the FBI showed up at my house and said they had a duty to inform [me] my name was on a neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
hitlist," pseudonyms were going to be used to respect their privacy. However after discussing this with the pair further, we decided that light is the best disinfectant, and we’re using their legal names. Fisher and Krenzer provided many evidentiary documents to corroborate their story, and everything seems to be authentic. Their case is sealed in the State of New York.
Why would I be covering self-described former sex workers
...Antifa/BLM, former sex workers — the only thing left to be utterly typical is pedophilia or transexuality, and a violent criminal background... that could find themselves in editorials based on philosophical differences that the stereotypical gun owner might have with them? It was Fisher and Krenzer’s attitudes when we spoke that impressed me most. I asked them, "Why did you reach out to me? There are plenty of ’gun writers’ out there." Fisher said, "Honestly, and I checked out a lot of the articles you wrote and you’re definitely a Second Amendment is for everybody kind of guy," with Krenzer adding, "Yeah. You’re not exclusionary." In the end, take it or leave it, the story they had to tell is one worth repeating.
Krenzer talked a bit more about the inception of their business and business model:
Like a big problem [is] for people [who] don’t have cars. So how are they supposed to go and buy a firearm? Towards the end, before we were shut down, we were planning on starting to offer rides [to people], because how is somebody supposed to go and buy a firearm and then bring it home? If they’re stuck using the bus, you can’t legally do that. So it really makes it hard for people to get things for self-defense because [they] can’t [take] it on public transportation.
Fisher capped off her remarks by saying, "Yeah, no matter who you are, you should be able to defend yourself in your home, to have the tools necessary." They further explained that they offered up free training to members of what they referred to as "the community," and when asked who "the community" is, they said, "anyone who is not a white supremacist."
There’s two sides to every story, and admittedly, I have not gone out to interview the ATF or New York State Police for this piece. It’s through the opinion — and other documents — of the judge presiding over the grand jury indictment, that Fisher and Krenzer’s claims have teeth.
Krenzer and Fisher said that the ATF had started "messing" with them as soon as they opened up shop. A colleague of theirs said that by offering free training to members of the community is what fouled them up at first. Their friend said they should have charged people for training, which would go against their credo of getting access to Second Amendment related activities to those who can’t necessarily afford them.
Fisher was being accused of training a militia. This theme of "training a militia" is something that we’re now seeing rather widespread in the Union as a new attack on training. Keeping someone from giving away free training in firearms, if they wish to, is a First Amendment violation as well as a Second Amendment one.
On January 6, 2022 a letter from the ATF was sent to the New York State Police. The topic of the letter related to a series of ATF compliance inspections of the Red Right Hand Rifle Syndicate, LLC’s gun shop. In the letter an agent described his visit and reported to the State Police a number of items he alleged were against New York law for them to be in possession of. The ATF further cried that the sky was falling over the free training they were offering, being in fear that they were raising a militia. He also was worried about any association they had with the Socialist Rifle Association; the agent found SRA brochures in their place of business. The two page letter with 37 pages of exhibits is worthy of its own reporting.
According to the FFL issued to "Stea Rosie Rifle Syndicate LLC," the parent company of Red Right Hand Rifle Syndicate, they were in possession of a valid "08-Importer of Firearms Other Than Destructive Devices" license. Many of the claims made in the letter to the State Police, and other allegations further after the raid, would be nullified by the fact they had this type of license.
Krenzer’s commitment to community is something that she continually pressed in our conversation. Fisher told me that there’s a misconception about their politics and that they don’t hold to any specific political identity. When talking about their bylaws, Krenzer told me:
It’s against our, it’s against our bylaws, to join a political party or endorse a politician. And you’re supposed to focus on your community and ignore people’s political differences. Because we’re all human. Every time we’ve gone to, we went to the Syracuse gun show, we participated there, we went to the Hamburg Gun Show, we were very active. We never had advertising, we were very open about what we were doing. And we will get some looks at the gun shows. But a lot of times people will come up and like...try to be like, "Oh, you’re Antifa?" And we be like, "Yeah." But we also, you know, we believe in workers rights, and all these other things. And then those people start to be like, "Wait, you, you believe in gun rights? Do you think everybody should?" And it’s kind of funny, because then they start warming up to us. And asking us more questions along the day, especially the other shops...like we’ve made so many friends with the other gun shops.
Fisher summed up his experience with others in the gun community, "They’ll get nervous about the logo [which is a kitsch Russian Communist design] and then realize we’re just people." Krenzer punctuated their experience on the optics, "Yeah, we’re just shock value. We’re there for the shock value. Attention — retention — whores."
That, too. 
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