The ATF was primarily a tax collection agency until the GCA of 1968. When they expanded it to regulating guns, they screwed up.
“The ATF was primarily a tax collection agency until the GCA of 1968.”
Then the ATF thugs morphed into a state-sponsored terrorist organization, ala Himmler’s Nazi Eizengruppen. Their mission: To inflict casualties on women, children and babies, while avoiding fights with groups of armed men.