Posted on 03/23/2025 1:16:49 PM PDT by bimboeruption
A report from CNN indicates FBI director Kash Patel — who is also ATF acting director — plans to cut “as many as 1,000 ATF agents” and move them to the FBI.
This will represent a cut of roughly one third of the ATF’s current agents.
According to CNN:
The move represents a major cutback of the ATF, an agency that long has been in the crosshairs of gun rights groups that believe its work infringes on Second Amendment rights. The ATF has about 2,600 agents and more than 5,000 employees, a number that has remained largely unchanged for years.
Gabby Giffords’ gun-control group, Giffords, responded to news of Patel’s plans with a post to X, which said, “This decision would increase crime and hurt law enforcement. The ATF is the only federal law enforcement agency stopping gun traffickers from flooding communities across the country with illegal guns. Weakening the ATF will make all us less safe.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Cut all of them.
Three legal products don’t need a law enforcement agency. It’s like having the Milk, Bread, and Meat Police.
ATF conducts SWAT raids in the hope of getting to kill people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eWJXW_vYTA
“The ATF is the only federal law enforcement agency stopping gun traffickers from flooding communities across the country with illegal guns.”
BS. There is nothing in the law that says that the ATF is the only agency that is empowered to enforce gun laws.
Should be a convenience store
So now the man who throws a flash bang grenade in your daughter's room, shoots your dog and sticks his MP5 in your face has the letters "FBI" on his back instead of "ATF".
Moving people around does nothing if those people still have the ATF attitude.
Every single ATF agent needs to be shown the door.
Every. Single. One.
What did you expect from that loon of a broad
Today we watched a Robert Mitchum movie where he was a booze runner in the 50’s. The feds after him were the Alcohol & Tobacco Tax division of the US Treasury.
This really stood out each time a fed ID’d himself, because what was missing was “Firearms”.
I can see taxing cigarettes and booze, but not the restriction of firearms. The ATF should be dissolved and the enforcement of tobacco and alcohol taxes should go back to the US Treasury Dept.
ATF.
Ambush The Free.
Today your remark is sarcasm. If WEF has their way, it would be reality.
He was right-and if gun-Grabby Giffords does not like this, I see it as a good thing...
Congress authorized the ATF so Trump can’t eliminate it, but he can reduce the headcount to one and station them in Guam at the NAS there.
"A good start..."
I thought they were moving them to the FBI?
Eliminate ATF
The ATF's charter was to enforce tax stamp laws. Since it no longer does that it should be abolished.
Three legal products don’t need a law enforcement agency.
There is a 4th letter, E for explosives, that is also part of the agency’s name, so perhaps some employees will still be needed.
I agree with you, can’t change the name and get a different outcome.
I thought it was ATFE...
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