[Steve_Seattle]

"ATF"

This is just an aside, but the lumping of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms under one agency has always seemed strange to me. I mean, we don't have an agency for cakes, pies, and power tools, so why are these three things associated with each other? Is it to - in a subtle way - suggest that firearms are an optional vice like alcohol and tobacco, and therefore not constitutionally protected? Just wondering.

[marktwain]

They all have excise taxes placed on them.

In my view, there should be no special tax on Firearms, as they are Constitutionally protected.

[lrdg]

They were a tax enforcement agency. Treasury, you know, “revenuers”.

[MHGinTN]

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