Posted on 01/09/2025 6:07:34 AM PST by MtnClimber
Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are planning to introduce legislation to abolish the controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
According to Fox News, Congressman Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) will introduce the bill, which has earned several prominent co-sponsors, including: Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Bob Onder (R-Mo.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Mary Miller (R-Ill.), Keith Self (R-Texas), and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.).
In a statement announcing the legislation, Congressman Burlison denounced the ATF as an “unconstitutional agency.”
“The Constitution makes it very clear that when it comes to the federal government, there shall be no laws restricting firearms,” said Burlison in an interview with Fox News Digital. “It’s in the purview of the states, and so I don’t think it belongs on the federal level.”
“But here’s the thing I want to reiterate – they don’t have the manpower to enforce the laws that they implement,” Burlison added. “So they go and they solicit help from every local state law enforcement official to help them implement their stupid new rules.”
The idea of abolishing the ATF, which has long been the cause of mass suppression of Americans’ Second Amendment rights, has earned the support of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), who previously supported such a move during his time in the Senate. Although President-elect Trump has not yet weighed in on the notion, he has expressed his support for abolishing several federal agencies in his second term, including the Department of Education.
Although Burlison admitted that he has not yet communicated with members of President-elect Trump’s team regarding this bill, he noted that “I’m sure there’s quite a few people in Trump world that would be open to this.”
The ATF has been plagued with scandal over its decades-long history, stemming from its use of too much force in dealing with gun-owning Americans. Most infamously, the agency was widely blamed for its poor handling of the standoffs at Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 1992, and in Waco, Texas in 1993. The Ruby Ridge incident led to the deaths of Vicki Weaver, her 14-year-old son Samuel, and their family dog. The Waco disaster ended with the deaths of 82 Americans who burned to death when their compound caught fire under mysterious circumstances in the midst of the ATF’s siege.
“But here’s the thing I want to reiterate – they don’t have the manpower to enforce the laws that they implement,” Burlison added. “So they go and they solicit help from every local state law enforcement official to help them implement their stupid new rules.”
The idea of abolishing the ATF, which has long been the cause of mass suppression of Americans’ Second Amendment rights, has earned the support of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), who previously supported such a move during his time in the Senate. Although President-elect Trump has not yet weighed in on the notion, he has expressed his support for abolishing several federal agencies in his second term, including the Department of Education.
Although Burlison admitted that he has not yet communicated with members of President-elect Trump’s team regarding this bill, he noted that “I’m sure there’s quite a few people in Trump world that would be open to this.”
The ATF has been plagued with scandal over its decades-long history, stemming from its use of too much force in dealing with gun-owning Americans. Most infamously, the agency was widely blamed for its poor handling of the standoffs at Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 1992, and in Waco, Texas in 1993. The Ruby Ridge incident led to the deaths of Vicki Weaver, her 14-year-old son Samuel, and their family dog. The Waco disaster ended with the deaths of 82 Americans who burned to death when their compound caught fire under mysterious circumstances in the midst of the ATF’s siege.
“If they do this they need to actually fire the ATF agents and all the bureaucrats and not let them slip away into some other corner of the federal bureaucracy.”
Fat chance. Anyway, getting rid of the ATF won’t do any good unless you repeal the laws which empower them like the NFA. Some other gang of bureaucrats will just use them to tyrannize the citizens. It’s what they live for.
"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." - Albert Gallatin, October 7, 1789
Art 6 para 2
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
"The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both." -William Rawle on the Second Amendment
Make it so.
“But I can see that legislation banning any funding for the ATF might prevent its revival under a Democrat president in the future.”
You understand!
BTW I like your user name.
All my computers are Ubuntu O/S.
DO IT!
ATF should be a convenience store.
They should be promoting them (firearms) so people are NOT scared of them.
There are terms that should never have fallen out of the modern lexicon...
Although, I am glad typesetters figured out that whole S/F thing... makes reading old texts confusing...
And only US Citizens work in that store.
Especially the jackboots that outright executed Brian Malinowski as just a recent example.
Further... Tell me this doesn’t EXACTLY describe gun grabbers in ways our watered down elocution can scarely hope to achieve:
flagitious
/flə-jĭsh′əs/
adjective
Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; — said of acts, crimes, etc.
Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; — said of persons.
Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices.
flagitious times
Lol
I am sitting here smoking some fine, aged, Virginia tobacco in my well crafted briar pipe, and resenting that unconstitutional agency.
I hate reading duplicate paragraphs
I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen the word before now.
I am sitting here smoking some fine, aged, Virginia tobacco in my well crafted briar pipe, and resenting that unconstitutional agency.
I agree, to bad though I’d like to see the atf abolished.
Enjoy
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