Posted on 04/18/2023 1:54:17 PM PDT by george76
Steve Dettelbach, the man President Biden chose to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), followed in the footsteps of other Biden administration officials who have been stumped by seemingly straightforward questions from lawmakers, questions that deal with subjects within what is supposed to be their purview.
On Tuesday, Director Dettelbach was asked by Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-TX) to give a brief, 15-second definition of the term "assault weapon," the thing President Biden and Democrats have demanded must be banned within the United States in order to reduce the frequency of crimes committed by individuals with guns. Dettelbach, however, came up completely empty during his testimony in the House Appropriations Committee's hearing focused on the ATF's FY2024 budget.
"I’ll go shorter than that because I, honestly, if Congress wishes to take that up, I think Congress would have to do the work, but we would be there to provide technical assistance," Dettelbach told Ellzey. Huh? So, the man in charge of ATF doesn't even have a guess when it comes to defining a firearm type that is mentioned and demonized almost daily by the White House?
"I, unlike you, am not a firearms expert, to the same extent as you maybe, but we have people at ATF who can talk about velocity of firearms, what damage different kinds of firearms cause, so that whatever determination you chose to make would be an informed one," Dettelbach added, confirming that President Biden had put forward another entirely unqualified person to lead a powerful wing of federal bureaucracy.
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Biden, his administration, and Democrats in Congress have insisted that "assault weapons" be banned, even though the term is only a buzzword that Biden's own ATF director — and likely Biden himself — can't define. That's because anything can be an assault weapon. A rock, a rifle, a handgun, a person's fist, a squirrel swung with enough velocity.
But the lack of specificity of the term hasn't stopped Democrats from renewing their push to ban "assault weapons." Nor has the fact that the previous iteration of the ban on "assault weapons" did not — according to the federal Department of Justice and other left-of-center studies — cause a reduction in the number of gun crimes nor the lethality of those crimes. Biden claims to be the previous ban's mastermind, but it didn't work — no matter how many times the Biden administration claims the opposite is true.
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So, the Biden administration is wrong about the efficacy of bans on "assault weapons," the Biden administration can't even define the term, and its ATF director is — by his own admission — lacking basic knowledge about firearms.
I thought it was 32 ft/sec/sec. What are meters?
“I, unlike you, am not a firearms expert”
and that’s a fact.
Brilliant response on your part. Well done!!
Assault weapon definition: A weapon used to assault a person or persons. Example: I was assaulted by an assailant who was using a fill in blank,________rock, club, knife, broken bottle, revolver, shotgun, rifle, black jack, brass knuckles, sword, baseball bat, axe, hammer, or a large dildo.
Typical government lifer lawyer...Ask a question and he dances, ducks, and evades....
Over and over....and over..
It just chaps me sometimes, that a group of people (the political and social Left)
can be SO WRONG about EVERYTHING and get away with SO MUCH.
It’s SO FRUSTRATING….
somewhere along the line, any gun that doesn’t look like an old winchester is an assault weapon. they’re looking at style...not capability.
And a president that probably doesn’t know what day of the week it is, among everything else.
What’s an assault weapon? Any weapon that assaults our delicate feelings.
A transportation secretary who doesn’t know anything about roads.
Or trucks.
Or trains.
Or prison (but should).
Of course, Biden’s also a lawyer turned career politician. Same old s**t. These are not the people who give honest, straightforward common sense responses. These are NOT people we want in leadership roles.
We want leaders and we get lawyers.
easy one, any normal weapon painted black
LMAO
Bingo. By not defining what an assault weapon is, they are free to define it as what ever they want it to be.
An E-tool is an effective assault weapon but has no firing capability.
fish rots from the head down.
This knucklehead is an expert on alcohol and tabacky!
Another Harvard lawyer with no life or work experience at all.
The Ivy’s are a laughingstock.
They mean AR15s and their equivalents, because their owners are the impediment to their totalitarian plans.
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