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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.
Let’s not just cynically ignore law and Constitution like the Dems do with border enforcement. “The President shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” If we are taking the position that some agencies or departments are unconstitutional, let’s do so forthrightly.
And, in a rare moment when we have enough institutions aligned to create some barriers to future swings to the far left as we do now (House, Senate, Presidency, Supreme Court, and the People, at the beginning of a new Congress with reconciliation available (making it possible to enact law with 50% of Senate )), we need to use it to install barriers to future tyranny. For instance FISA has failed, the FBI and ATF have failed. Shut them down while it is possible.
Never happen. Alphabet agencies are bloated, anachronistic entities that employ millions of civil servants whose Job #1 is to ................ vote. They represent the height of inefficiency and nepotism, but like all socialist organizations, their job is safe as long as they support the politburo.
That’s a word that sounds exactly like what it means.
Hi.
As many on this forum have commented, the ATF should be a convenience store in a strip mall.
5.56mm
You spelled woodchipper/hog farm incorrectly.
Does this means the thugs will have to buy their own jackboots?
Flagellation for the flagitious!
Start with this and then get rid of all unconstitutional government agencies.
BTTT
Dept. of Education should be next.
No, put Brandon Herrara in charge. He has his own gun-oriented podcast and is on Unsubscribe and ran a close Tx state representative campaign last year.
He will peel back the lies and gut the place — then, get rid of it.
Gone 100%. Still have several other agencies that think the stasi is a good model.
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That brings back some memories. I smoked a pipe for over 45 years. I quit over a year ago, but still have many pipes and probably some stale tobacco.
Yes! I’m in support of it!
when i was about 16 My parents didn’t want me.smoking cigarettes, but they let me smoke a pipe. That was almost 60 years ago.
About 25 years ago, I discovered a pipe club, and a pipe chat room. We would get together at pipe shows. The pandemic pretty much ended that.
Put them back to collecting taxes on alcohol and tobacco and repeal the NFA and GCA and the law that banned new machine guns.
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