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History of the ATF: How the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Became Corrupt & Abusive
Ammo.com ^ | 9/25/2020 | Sam Jacobs

Posted on 09/25/2020 11:06:06 AM PDT by ammodotcom

It’s unlikely that there is a single federal alphabet organization less popular among the readership of this website than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. These are the people who gave us both the Siege at Ruby Ridge and the Siege of Waco. What’s more, they may well be engaged in an entirely unconstitutional exercise: monitoring and patrolling the gun ownership of law-abiding citizens.

There’s also a solid case to be made that the ATF is a rogue organization, the most corrupt of the federal alphabet agencies. This can be seen through a number of scandals beginning with Ruby Ridge, threading through the siege at Mount Carmel in Waco, and continuing to the notorious “Fast and Furious” scandal.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: atf; banglist; blogpimp; corruption; rubyridge; waco

1 posted on 09/25/2020 11:06:06 AM PDT by ammodotcom
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To: ammodotcom

DHS/ATF/most of EEOC/most of FEPC/most of DofEd/most of dozens of other federal bureaucrappies need to be shut down ASAP
starting yes with ATFforsure as it is unconstitutional insofar as the F part and the A, T parts are unnecessary protections for major corporate interests that simply are not needed


2 posted on 09/25/2020 11:09:52 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ammodotcom

Any government organization = mostly liberal = corrupt and abusive.

By history, experience, logic, and now by definition.


3 posted on 09/25/2020 11:10:18 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ammodotcom

I recall reading this in Wayne Lapierre’s book “Guns, Crime, and Freedom”. In it, he quotes a congressman in about 1980 using the “jackbooted thugs” term as there was some very serious discussion about abolishing the agency altogether because of abuses by the agents that were well known even by that time.


4 posted on 09/25/2020 11:26:36 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: ammodotcom
it was conceived that way...
5 posted on 09/25/2020 11:29:31 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: ammodotcom

We’re no fans of the IRS, either.


6 posted on 09/25/2020 12:08:13 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ammodotcom
Alcohol,Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Name of the one stop party store I'm starting in West Virginia.

7 posted on 09/25/2020 1:41:23 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: DuncanWaring

ibb.co/JpkWFn4


8 posted on 09/26/2020 9:28:42 PM PDT by ammodotcom
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To: Da Coyote

Without question. My vision of hell would be an America in which every service is provided by the Boston DMV.


9 posted on 09/26/2020 9:31:37 PM PDT by ammodotcom
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To: faithhopecharity

I’m sure the solution we’ll get is the creation of even more bureaucracies.


10 posted on 09/26/2020 9:32:33 PM PDT by ammodotcom
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To: ammodotcom

Undoubtably!


11 posted on 09/27/2020 4:20:59 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ammodotcom

I’m surprised there’s not a line.


12 posted on 09/27/2020 6:27:03 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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