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ATF Chief Tells CBS He’s Willing To Skirt Laws To Ban Guns He Doesn’t Even Know How To Use
The Federalist ^ | MARCH 04, 2024 | JORDAN BOYD

Posted on 03/04/2024 12:57:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms Director Steven Dettelbach seems to know as much about guns as Democrat-nominated Supreme Court justices.

As ATF head, Dettelbach, who was confirmed in 2022 with the help of Senate Democrats and two Republicans, is expected to understand to some degree the items his agency regulates and enforces. Unfortunately for Americans who have endured a slew of attacks on their Second Amendment rights at the hands of the Biden administration, Dettelbach is publicly ignorant about the guns and gun parts his agency wants to ban.

During his appearance on CBS’s “Face The Nation” over the weekend, Dettelbach outlined for CBS News’s Margaret Brennan the ATF’s desire to ban certain firearms and modifications he claimed are loopholes in restrictive gun laws.

In the sit-down portion of his interview, Dettelbach claimed his 5,000-person agency is “way, way, way too small” to fully satisfy Biden’s gun-grabbing goals. He also admitted the ATF, even though barred from creating a federal database of firearm owners, still devotes its time and resources to “work within that system” and link guns to owners.

When the interview shifted to a demonstration featuring a table of unloaded firearms, Dettelbach tried his best to make the case for more regulation of law-abiding Americans’ top self-defense option. Even with the help of one of the ATF’s “leading experts,” however, Dettelbach failed to demonstrate knowledge of even the most basic firearm anatomy such as the difference between a clip and a magazine.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; atfsedition; banglist; dettelbach; enemieslist; nra; secondamendment; stevendettelbach
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To: NWFree

Hazard needs to be asked to his face & on camera just how many open mass graves he is planning on digging & just how many death squads he wants to form😐 If you need to use an electric cattle prop to get an answer so be it.


21 posted on 03/04/2024 2:40:11 PM PST by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now that is definitely grounds for impeachment...


22 posted on 03/04/2024 2:43:40 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I would say based on the clips of the video that I’ve seen the ATF lived up to their reputation 100%. Totally clueless as to the operation of firearms and completely unprepared for a demonstration to a nation wide audience. Embarrassing doesn’t even describe it.


23 posted on 03/04/2024 3:29:16 PM PST by suthener ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My answer to a lawless government?

Nobody pays their taxes.


24 posted on 03/04/2024 3:32:58 PM PST by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of lawlessness )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is exactly why the founders wanted an armed populace.


25 posted on 03/04/2024 3:39:38 PM PST by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: thegagline

umm, does totalitarian fascists work ?

-fJRoberts-


26 posted on 03/04/2024 3:43:30 PM PST by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: Yo-Yo

“Uh, Mr. Dettlebach, even if you pay cash ‘in a border state,’ you still have to fill out a 4473 and receive a NICS check. That’s all the ‘paper trail’ you demand with “universal background checks.””

And then Dettlebach will pretend not to keep a record of the background check.


27 posted on 03/04/2024 4:15:22 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If the AR-15 is good enough for Miss America 1962 to shoot it is still good for us today.

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/06/07/blast-from-the-past-miss-america-shooting-a-cutting-edge-rifle/


28 posted on 03/04/2024 4:35:46 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These are, you know, our “betters.”

They know, you know, what is “good” for us!


29 posted on 03/04/2024 5:56:18 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: alancarp
...the ATF, even though barred from creating a federal database of firearm owners,

So, who ELSE is barred from doing this?

No one!!!???

30 posted on 03/04/2024 7:10:24 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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