Not only should BATFE be abolished, the new POTUS should do the following:
1) Immediately fire all ATF special agents.
2) Write an EO mandating that they may not only never seek a Federal Law Enforcement Job, but also never serve in the Federal Government.
3) Work with Congress to de-certify ATF agents and withhold funds from States and Local governments that attempt to hire them as law enforcement agents.
4) Write a blanket pardon for all offenders whom violated the NFA Act of 1934, GCA of 1968, FOPA, et. al. with firearms rights and voting rights restored, with the caveat that there was no original aggressor violence or drugs involved in the case.
5) Release all firearms held by the ATF Technical Branch, FBI labs, and testing centers that are not direct evidence in an open criminal investigation. Put all of these firearms on Form 3s and added to the tranferable registry.
6) Set a general amnesty for all NFA firearms open for four years until 20 JAN 2017.
7) Work with Congress to repeal NFA< GCA, FOPA, and all other anti-gun laws, while at the same time, make a simple federal law concentrating on possession by VIOLENT felons, illegals, and the involuntary-adjudicated mentally insane.
8) Until the time that ATF has fully been dismantled, move the NFA branch to Texas, hire only NRA life members and GOA members to do the transfers, and make only 2 ATF forms....NFA form 4 for individuals, trusts and coroporatioins, and a Form 3, a tax free transfer form....until the above said laws are repealed.
....and all of this thought up before my 2nd cup of coffee.
If only a presidential candidate would make that one of the issues of the campaign. An EO on day one, slashing ATF. A and T and F are all legal and constitutional products to own. An agency that should have gone away in 1933 with the end of the failed prohibition experiment. The 1934 Firearms Act should also be done away with, it was left over from trying to deal with the prohibition (tommy guns etc).
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
<./shudder>
Today. Right now in fact...
How many people have had their lives and livelyhood destroyed by this one unConstitutional law and all of the arbitrary nonsense perpetrated under its auspices?
NFATCA??? Acronym interpretation, please. WTF izzat??