{"id":106422,"date":"2024-12-27T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106422"},"modified":"2024-12-27T10:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T16:52:59","slug":"106422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106422","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Did the ATF Raid Baltimore Gun Rights Advocate Mark \u2018Choppa\u2019 Manley\u2019s House?<\/a><\/p>\n

This is how the federal agency that\u2019s charged with regulating firearms conducts its business. According to the Washington Times, \u201cATF agents announced themselves to Mark \u2018Choppa\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manley, who is described as a\u00a0gun rights advocate<\/a>\u00a0and lives in Baltimore, thinks the raid by agents in battle rattle was an attempt to send a message to other black gun owners.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d Mr. Manley told The Times. \u201cEspecially being a minority from the inner city.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t really clear what the feds were looking for in the raid. They spent hours tossing Manley\u2019s home, checking gun serial numbers, and ultimately confiscating his phone. But no one was charged or arrested and no guns were confiscated.<\/p>\n

Harassment<\/a>\u00a0has been\u00a0a hallmark<\/a>\u00a0of 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.<\/p>\n

Mr. Manley\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2019t long ago that ATF decided that an early morning\u00a0raid on the home of Bryan Malinowski<\/a>\u00a0was 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\u2019s finest\u00a0shot and killed him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Gun rights advocate Maj] Toure said the raid at Mr. Manley\u2019s 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 \u201cpoker face\u201d to try and intimidate Mr. Manley from organizing gun owners in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s happening is they\u2019re trying to scare people \u2014 bluff them \u2014 into thinking \u2018I better not do this. I better be quiet about it.\u2019\u201d Mr. Toure said. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

January 20th can\u2019t get here soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Did the ATF Raid Baltimore Gun Rights Advocate Mark \u2018Choppa\u2019 Manley\u2019s House? This is how the federal agency that\u2019s charged with regulating firearms conducts its business. According to the Washington Times, \u201cATF agents announced themselves to Mark \u2018Choppa\u2019 Manley and his family by tossing a flashbang into his living room and ordering everyone out … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106423,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106422\/revisions\/106423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}