You would think Waco would have been evidence enough.
Is this the same congress that is going to 'reform' illegal immigration?
The problem here is the authority of the agency. The '68 GCA is outright unconstitutional - it prohibits people from selling Constitutionally-protected property to others across state lines (you have to go through a "dealer"), it prohibits you from dealing directly with manufacturers (just try buying an AR clone directly from Bushmaster, DPMS, etc., or a handgun from S&W, Springfield, Glock, etc. - it won't happen unless you have an FFL) and it allows the agency to ban whole classes of guns from civilian ownership under the unlimited, undefined, unconstitutional and unreviewable standard of "sporting purpose" (which, by the way, was a concept lifted directly from the 1938 Nazi Weapons Law - see http://www.jpfo.org/GCA_68.htm ).
BATF abuses got the '86 FOPA passed, which forced BATF to ease up a bit, and which allowed interstate shipment of ammo and protected interstate travel with long guns. Maybe the abuses now being testified about can bring some more changes for the better.
Is this the end of the Alcohol Tobacco Fags?
The man is lucky they didn't burn his house down!
What can you say about a bureau established for the purpose of harassing guys who like to pop a beer, light up a cigar and do some plinking?
BATF sounds like something in need of some serious abolishing.
IF GUNOWNERS were politcally active and I mean in the left leaning way of positive action this crap would stop. If every time a gunowner or FFL is harassed the squeaky wheel was heard loud this would stop. Look what illegal immigrants can do by just protesting. When did you ever see GUNOWNERS protest. NEVER. Conservatives just don't act that way.
How many f**king times a year for the last 5 have we heard of this kind of bulls**t going on over and over again and each time some timid little whore that gets a federal paycheck somewhat casually suggests a reform or two here and there and what happens with all that lip service? not a g*dd**n thing ever and it wont happen because no one is getting pissed enough to throw these sobs out of office that have oversight to bring these jack boot fascists under control.Heres a little thing to note georgie bush (you know the man that point blank said he would sign the assault weapons ban if it got to his desk and brags about project safe neighborhoods that rino pos)can disband the entire agency tomorrow with an executive order but never has even considered it and he still gets a good rating from the ultra liberal NRA. (whose former president helped get the 68 gun control act passed which was an almost verbatim translation from germanys gun control act)the NRA needs this kind of crap going on to raise massive amounts of money from the uninformed sheeple that cant see that that group along with the government are a huge part of the problem.its not a conspiracy its a collusion
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