Posted on 02/06/2017 4:49:09 PM PST by marktwain
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-A “white paper“, written by the second highest ranking official of the ATF, has been obtained by the Washington Post. The date, official, and reforms mentioned, are all significant. The paper was dated January 20th, 2017, inauguration day.
Ronald B. Turk is the author. The paper expresses “the ideas and opinions” of Mr. Turk. From the washingtonpost.com:
The second-highest-ranking official at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has written a proposal to reduce gun regulations, including examining a possible end to the ban on importing assault weapons into the United States.
The “white paper” by Ronald B. Turk, associate deputy director and chief operating officer of the ATF, calls for removing restrictions on the sale of gun silencers; allowing gun dealers to have more guns used in crimes traced to their stores before the federal government requires additional information from the dealer; and initiating a study on lifting the ban on imported assault weapons.
A number of common sense reforms are discussed in the paper. People in the gun culture will recognize many of them as obvious reforms that would have happened long ago, if there were a sympathetic ear in the White House.
Here are short descriptions of the reforms. The long versions are available in the paper itself.
1. FFL license issued for sales at gun shows only, no sales required at physical address. (This removes much of local “veto power” of FFl license issue)
2. Rational review of “armor piercing” ammo for rifles.
3. Re-importation of Certain DOD Surplus Firearms from Foreign Countries. (Garands and MI Carbines, anyone?)
4. Variances on “transfers” of Machine guns for people in DOD industry and Theater industry.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Great Post!!!
California too.
“Heck, how about canning the Hughes Amendment to the FOPA and re-opening the machine gun registry?”
How to use Amnesty to reform the NFA:
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/11/using-amnesty-to-roll-back-second.html
“I guess he wants to keep his job.”
These people are a transparent as anything. They will do and say anything to keep their jobs. It is important for the “new top management” in these agencies to determine the true character of their senior people. Better still, just fire them, it’s much safer.
I did some work at a government research site around the time Obama was first elected. I asked them if they had to worry about their jobs.
“No - we’ll do the same stuff we always did. [They did water-borne research] But now instead of testing water for terrorist threats or harbor development, it will be doing environmental surveys and global warming stuff.”
Of course that was guys lower on the totem pole - but I’m guessing these professional bureaucrats just want to keep their jobs. Although at some point all of these top people should be replaced with people that are passionate about the cause, and doing their best, rather than just changing the nouns on forms in triplicate.
Don’t forget GCA and the Hughes Amendment.
Agree. Get rid of the ATF.
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