[omnivore]

This is evidence of great evil concentrated in BATFE.

America should measure and celebrate its level of freedom and patriotism by how many gun dealers and gun traders it has!

To have the number of gun dealers be in any way be interpreted as a measure of something bad, rather than something good, rather than something to be proud of, is to buy into the propaganda spewed by the enemies of the American way of life. Which includes BATFE.

How can we get any of the Repub presidential candidates to propose zero-funding BATFE? Completely eliminating it from the federal budget, on the grounds that it is an agency which has been captured by enemies of America, and is completely beyond redemption. Because it is.

There's an easy way to save the taxpayers a bundle of money, and to fight against a stronghold of anti-American terrorism at the same time. Eliminate BATFE completely. Eradicate it from its pitiful bureaucratic existence. Zero-fund it. The founding fathers could never have imagined it ever existing in the first place. It is a nightmare of 20th Century Statism, an abomination in an otherwise relatively free America. It's time for BATFE to be eradicated. There is no place for BATFE to exist in 21st century America.

[ctdonath2]

How can we get any of the Repub presidential candidates to propose zero-funding BATFE?

"Loose lips sink ships."

De-funding the BATFE would end the firearms industry in this country. Legally, you can't do business therein without BATFE approving assorted paperwork. That means no retail gun sales, no ammo, no nuthin' new. Private sales would continue, but ammo supplies would dry up fast, starving what's out there.

Crap, I think you inadvertently just tried to hand the Brady Bunch their entire set of goals on a silver platter.