ATF / Fedposting

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AT TF GEEZ, THIS SHOTGUN IS SO HEAVY! IF ONLY THERE WAS SOMEONE WHO COULD TRIM IT DOWN FOR ME...

when the alphabet boys kick down your door and immediately shoot your taxidermy dog that's stuffed with 176 pounds of tannerite You fool, you fell victim to one of the classic blunders.

U.S. Department of Justic Burcau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives C3800 Dear Director Lombardo, The purpose of this letter is to inquire about and request for the provision of amending recruiting standards as they pertain to weight (Rec.AD-Sec32-5) My request is that the required minimum weight be amended from a pass/no pass 225 lbs to a system that is more adequate at evaluating a recruit's eligibility for service. Below I outline my reasoning with relevant agency statistics. This is a matter that should not be taken lightly; it is severely affecting our agency to very harmful ends. The original intent of our weight requirement was to filter our weak applicants to bolster the agency's combat ability and its military bearing as a law enforcement organization. This was sound logic for the time when the policy was implemented, but not now. Today we are faced with accepting under-staffing in critical roles, such as entry and QRF teams, (RR 3. AD-Sec-2b. Rel pg. 3) and hiring applicants who do meet the weight requirements through means of body fat and not muscle. More than half of our enforcement personnel is either obese, and/or have began using agency benefits as of the 2019 audit (ATF-CAR 56.4. Rel pg 74.). This is harming our agency both in regards to tactical operations (last year we have suffered more injuries relating to obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and parallel conditions) than we did from violent encounters, and in regards to our appearance as an agency. Many of the monitored networks that are believed to pose a threat to the agency (ATF-F-Lists VB26-ISec.3) have been noted as circulating imagery of obese ATF officers looking very ocntradictory to what law enforcement standards dictate in the ir agency issued tactical gear. Those images have been reviewed and determined real (RR3. Atd). This is bolstering morale criminal elements while simultaneously incentivising our physically fit, competent agents to among resign. Eventually this will lead to significant degradation of the agency's enforcement abilities, and produce undesirable performance statistics. For the above reasons I ask that you, with great urgency, amend the current weight requirement to a more reasonable one in order to prevent further harm to our agency and preserve our combat ability. In conjunction with Dr. Greg R. Mitchell from our Medical Research Sub-Division and reviewing the relevant available statistics (RR 5. Atd) I have come to the conclusion that applicants should be evaluated on a ATF ale similar to that used by military branches (attached). Thank you for your consideration, Director. ncy & Readiness Sub-Comm. A. Supervisor Ryan Jill ATF ATF

SWAT team hand signals Shoot that dog too! I get to shoot their dog! Wrong house, kill this dog. I hear another dog to shoot! I see another dog to shoot! That chihuahua has a gun!

My canine's facial positioning when I use a power tool to create an illegal hole in my AR-15 type rifle lower receiver to create an unregistered fully automatic firearm while it also is completely aware of the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives will engage him with projectile based weaponry as they conduct a no-knock raid upon my property to seize the aformentioned illegal fully automatic AR-15 type firearm.

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Category: Meme Status: submission Year: 2011 Origin: 4chan Region:

Type: Conspiracy Theory Photoshop Slang

Tags: fedboy alphabet boy atf guns fbi cia glowie boating accident slang fedposting alcohol tobacco firearms conspiracy theory 4chan

About

ATF / Fedposting is a genre of memes that revolve around federal agents. Whereas other memes involving federal agents, such as glowposting, are about identifying federal agents that pretend to be Boogaloo boys, fedposting refers to the act of posting about them in general or planning for when they actually do come to perform a raid on someone.

Origin

Fedposting has been a common part of 4chan board humor for over a decade, as the site often discusses things, such as guns and drugs, that would pique the interest of federal agencies. When the board /r9k/ became more popular, most fedposting transferred to that space.

The most common forms of fedposting are the ones that revolve around the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives). The majority of memes surrounding the ATF involve standoffs, gun confiscation and dog shooting. The reasoning behind this is largely traced back to the incidents in both Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas. At both of these, the starting trigger for the commotion was dogs being shot at, and the general theme of them being raids on people for gun-confiscation reasons. One of the earliest examples of a meme about being raided was posted on 4chan by an anonymous user on December 11th, 2011, in a classic greentext submission (shown below).

Anonymous 12/11/11 (Sun) 18:07 No. 10286882 >They kick down my door >I have dragon dildos hanging from the ceiling >Just in case this day comes >They fight their way through the dongs >There are casualties >They bust down my bedroom door >I'm wearing a G-string >Backwards >Covering myself in olive oil >Extra oil on my balls >Playing with my n------ >Moan as loudly as possible "YOUR MOVE, MR. LAW-MAN!" >Those cops will never be the same.

Among the /r9k/ crowd, the ATF and other "alphabet boys" are typically seen as a boogeyman-type entity, one that exists to erase your gun rights, take your guns and shoot your dog. Because of this, many of the memes about the alphabet boys include setting up traps in and around the house and getting out of trouble with them via boating accidents and other technicalities to escape legal repercussions for gun ownership.

A common meme when it comes to the ATF is boating accidents, as it is a commonly held belief that claiming your guns were lost in a boating accident will allow you to secretly keep them. This type of meme has continued to stay popular in various places, often getting more attention shortly after new gun bills are proposed. An example of this can be found on the /r/liberationmeme^[1] subreddit, posted by Redditor How_To_Liberty on March 22, 2019, earning 390 upvotes in two years (shown below).

LIVE BREAKING NEWS Breaking: Boat Accidents up 400% 19:48 Boat accidents up 400% since most recent gun ban was passed

Spread

Memes at the expense of alphabet boys have been a consistent staple in fringe groups online for over a decade and can be found on many different websites, often increasing or decreasing with the national politics of the time. Memes about not trusting federal agents and the government continue to spread online while citing Waco and Ruby Ridge, as seen in the Reddit post on the r/politicalcompass subreddit on April 9th, 2021, by Redditor^[2] elbartoreddit that received 880 upvotes in two months (shown below).

When somebody asks me why ! don't trust government: MK Ultra Operation Northwoods Operation Paperclip Operation Fast & Furious Operation Mockingbird Tuskegee Experiments Waco Ruby Ridge OFK NSA Spying Building 7 Gulf of Tonkin Chicago Black Sites Flint Water Crisis Iran Contra Gary Webb NDAA Patriot Act Bilderberg Group Bohemian Grove Abu Grahib Guantanamo Bay

Another of the most common memes about the ATF is their alleged penchant for "shooting dogs." Besides the two infamous cases above, it is part of police and federal agent policy to defend oneself from an animal that is attacking them, and oftentimes a dog is used as a protective deterrent to criminal activity. These two factors together create a situation where, often in news stories, a mention of the owner's dog being shot during a police or federal agency raid will be made. Due to this, it is a staple meme to say that the ATF and other agencies will arbitrarily shoot your dog for no reason, as seen in the meme on the r/PoliticalCompassMemes^[3] subreddit by Redditor u/HappyRuski on May 31st, 2021, which earned 5,800 upvotes in 25 days (shown below).