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Posted on 08/21/2023 4:57:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is escalating efforts to strip gun dealers of their federal firearms licenses.
The licenses, which enable businesses to sell firearms for profit, are being revoked in increasing numbers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The ATF has yanked 122 federal firearms licenses, or FFL’s, from dealers this fiscal year alone.
That’s up from 90 in all of fiscal year 2022, and merely 27 in fiscal year 2021.
The strict enforcement has proved controversial among law enforcement — with some police opposing action that could deter gun sellers from working with federal authorities to thwart crime, according to the Wall Street Journal.
ATF Director Steve Dettelbach is defending the agency’s actions, arguing that the dealers in question don’t deserve the “privilege” of transaction in firearms.
“We’ve taken steps to hold accountable those few dealers who are engaging in these willful violations,” he said. “They’re not going to have the privilege of being a gun dealer anymore.”
One retired ATF official is warning the heavy-handed approach will deprive the agency of key allies against gun trafficking and illegal straw purchases of guns.
“The gun dealers were our first line of defense against gun trafficking,” retired deputy assistant director Peter Forcelli told the Journal of his experience with the agency.
“Why are we now beating an ally into submission?”
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
A right is not a “privilege”.
Boling pot gets hotter.
wait a minute...the leftist democrats keep telling us that they aren’t coming for the guns. I read it on the internet so it must be true...right?
Good luck regulating the dealers who sell from the trunks of automobiles late at night in the ‘hood.
“shall not be infringed”
“Good luck regulating the dealers who sell from the trunks of automobiles late at night in the ‘hood.”
Yep. Getting those people is dangerous. They might shoot back. Heck, they probably don’t even have any dogs to shoot. Much easier taking away a law abiding FFL who made a mistake on the paperwork.
That being said, this article is deliberately slanted.
There are only 6 weeks out of 52 left in the fiscal year, so why the emphasis of "122 in this fiscal year alone"? Going from 90 to 122 is not a massive jump.
I am also curious as to why the author only cites numbers from the last 3 years, and also why he deliberately omits the total number of FFL holders. I looked it up. According to the folks at Silencer Shop, as of Jan. 3, 2023 there were over 130,000 FFL dealers in the 50 US states. Wow. Those 0.03% are experiencing quite the crackdown.
Just a thought, but is it possible that the overwhelming majority of those 122 FFL holders were "ridin' dirty"? And if they were, wouldn't law abiding FFLs and gun owners want them dropped?
The ATF is clearly involved in heavy handed restrictions of our constitutional rights, but this (gotta meet a deadline) article by Richard Moorhead offers nothing to support that this is one of those situations.
If they decide take on those unlicensed dealers at all, they will send the locals in first as cannon fodder and if the gangsters don’t shoot them, then the federals will as a pretext to go in with all guns blazing.
120 out of 50,000? That’s a quarter of 1%. If that’s a crack down on the 2A, it’s a pretty poor job. Face it, some gun dealers, like doctors, auto mechanics, bankers, etc., just aren’t good at their jobs or are corrupt and put the rest of us at risk. The doctor losing his license to operate on a patient is losing his/her livelihood too but we’re safer for it.
Ah for the good old days before Dec 1968...
Interesting we rarely had school shootings back before the 1968 gun control Act became law.
Guns were more available then as you could get a gun at a gas station, pawn shop, hardware store, clothing store, record shop, book store, liquor store, feed store, grocery store. They were everywhere! Cash and carry. No background check, no waiting period, no paperwork. No ID, Just look old enough.
Or you could drop a check in the mail and one would be shipped to your door.
So what has happened since then to cause a change in the morals in the USA where everyone with a gripe has to have his vengeance for past wrongs, most of which are only in his head?
I would blame the mass shootings on closing down the mental institutions in the 1970s. Almost every shooter would have been considered mentally ill and locked up back in the 1960s BEFORE they went on a killing spree.
While it was LBJ who started the squeeze on gun stores, followed by Jimmy Carter, then Bill Clinton closed thousands of them followed by Obama and now Biden.
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”-— Lyndon Johnson signing the 1968 gun control act into law.
And Thomas J. Dodd, who wrote the 1968 gun control act using the 1938 Nazi weapons law as a pattern...
“No one can predict how many lives will be spared because of this bill, but, if the bloody record of our yesterdays is any measure, millions of future Americans will live to enjoy the promise of many peaceful tomorrows.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play a part in this great moment in our time.”— Thomas J. Dodd on passage of the 1968 Gun control act.
yuk, yuk. i think that by 2030 there will be no gun dealers left. (legal dealers) unless a major shift occurs in the 2024 election.
***the leftist democrats keep telling us that they aren’t coming for the guns.***
the Democrats have been out to disarm America since 1962. I remember each lie told well.
Starting in 1962 with the demand of Dems Thomas J. Dodd and Emanuel Celler...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
In 1976, the founder of handgun Control Inc told in a New Yorker interview his goal was to make ownership of handguns “TOTALLY ILLEGAL”.
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America screams and pokes holes in the air with her finger...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984, They came for the rifles.
Gun owners know they are always up against a stacked deck.
Those dates are significant, but they really started at Concord Bridge and then in the 1850s when they began to realize that the tyrants actually were “the man on the high horse”!
Now is the time for Firearm Manufacturers to institute a “Terms of Service Agreement” with all their dealers.
If you Sell or Transfer ANY of our products to a Public Employee or Officer of the Court, you will be forever BANNED from buying any product we produce or distribute.
Biden taking a page out of Pritzkers handbook. Make the FFL’s jump through so many hoops they go out of business. I bet in the last 5 years Illinois has lost over 50% of its gun stores.
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If you need the government’s PERMISSION (at any place along the line) to exercise your RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, then is it really a “RIGHT”?!?
Technically, all the government would have to do to end gun sales (other than private person-to-person sales) is to revoke the licenses of all FFL’s and BAM! The government has, in effect, REVOKED the 2nd Amendment - at least anyone else in the future!
We obviously need more ATF agents.
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