Posted on 12/22/2020 6:54:08 AM PST by george76
They are the strongest opponents of defunding the police, but now, conservatives are carving out an exception — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Long considered anti-gun, the agency has provoked alarm with Second Amendment advocates due to the agency’s recent targeting of gunmakers, including a raid this month on a producer of so-called "ghost guns" and this week’s targeting of AR-15-style pistols.
With President-elect Joe Biden poised to unleash new gun control measures, fears are heightened that ATF will be the tip of the spear.
Marjorie Taylor Greene ... 10 years ago today, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered in cold blood with a gun provided to Mexican drug cartels through Barack Obama and Eric Holder's ATF "Fast & Furious" program.
The ATF is an oppressive government agency that should be DEFUNDED and ELIMINATED!
To fight that, some conservatives are now calling for the defunding of the ATF. Outspoken gun advocate Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene has put the agency in her crosshairs.
“The ATF is trying to shut down American companies and put good people out of work. Not only is this an attack on small businesses, but the Constitution itself,” she told us, adding, “I’m headed to D.C. to cut government, not expand it, and the ATF is at the top of my list.”
Gun Owners of America Senior Vice President Erich Pratt said that the agency’s move this week to consider outlawing some AR pistols after endorsing them for years demands scrutiny.
“This ATF is simply out of control,” Pratt said. “This agency — which shouldn’t exist in the first place — is not held accountable for its actions, and honest gun owners who are being turned into criminals are paying the price.”
The National Rifle Association is also raising concerns that the agency is eager to team up with the Biden-Harris team to squeeze gun owners more.
There is a gas station, convenience store and gun store down the street that will give you an ATF shirt with any gun purchase that says (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) ATF should be store not a government agency. They sell all 3. Granted technically 2 are in one area and the guns are in another of the building. Good prices on guns but ammo selection is weak.
Yeah, not without legislative action to remove the provisions of the National Firearms Act, the Gun Control Act and other related laws. ATF derives its power (and continued existence) from those pieces of legislation, so without repeal of the pertinent language, enforcement would just be shuffled to some other federal agency. Possible? Yes... but the probability is vanishingly small.
“All of the federal government is like that.
EPA - dictating how much water a toilet uses per flush. What lightbulb you use...
FAA - telling folks that are healthy that they cannot have a medical and fly because they used a medicine to deal with depression 1.5 years ago.
DEA - regulating frigging nasal decongestants... A few years past medical professionals pushed narcotics for pain, now if you go into a hospital they are reluctant to administer them even if you have a kidney stone and are in horrible pain.
TSA -
ATF -
IRS -
DOJ -
Our government is “out of control.”
Here.... let me finish them up for ya:
TSA - Come hither into this other room. Remove your clothes, and spread em cause we don’t like the way you look. And if you complain we’ll use our fist instead of two fingers while taking bets on who gets to go first.
ATF - We have records of you buying a “legal” firearm which we now consider “illegal” so prepare for your family as well as your dogs to be massacred while we walk away scot-free.
IRS - We decide what you owe and when to pay otherwise hire an attorney while we throw unlimited resources at you and you go bankrupt.
DOJ - There’s nothing to see here, now move along as I’ve got to practice my bagpipes. Never mind the flagrant abuse of the peoples most honored and sacred right to vote as well as the numerous laws that were broken during the process.
MAGA =======> KAG
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