Republicans keep pressure on ATF as Senate bill aims to force agency to be transparent

Fox News ^ | 3/2/2023

[Right Wing Vegan]

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans are keeping up the pressure on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) as a new Senate bill aims to force more transparency from the agency.

Idaho Republican Senator James Risch introduced the ATF Transparency Act on Thursday, looking to improve the fairness of the ATF, increase agency transparency, and process applications quicker.

"The ATF’s huge backlog of applications is triggered by a burdensome, seemingly endless process that fails to allow citizens access to an appeals process in the event of a wrongful denial," Risch told Fox News Digital.

"The result: law-abiding Americans are prevented from exercising their Second Amendment rights," Risch continued. "As the Biden administration continues to create more and more hurdles for law-abiding gun owners, it is more than fair to demand the ATF stick to a strict timeline for reviewing applications and create an appeals process for rejected applicants."

"With the ATF Transparency Act, the ATF would be held to a higher standard that would require a faster, fairer process for firearm applications," he added.

Wyoming Republican Senator Cynthia Lummus told Fox News Digital that a "case of mistaken identity or incorrect processing of paperwork should not be the end of the road for a law-abiding citizen trying to purchase a firearm."

"Gun owners in Wyoming who follow the law should have recourse in the event of a denial by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives," Lummis, a bill co-sponsor, said. "Thank you to Senator Risch for introducing the ATF Transparency Act to protect our Second Amendment rights."

[rktman]

😂😂😂 Bet the ATF is shaking in their jackboots. Owwww! Republicrat “pressure”.

[rellic]

Completely eliminate the funding for ATF.
All are cooked cops.
Use treasury to levy booze and tobacco taxes.
Federal government has no business regulating fire arms.
State laws cover criminal acts pretty well.

[jospehm20]

Yep, another useless gubmint agency that needs to be eliminated.

[rexthecat]

How will Manchin and Tester vote?

[TLI]

Completely eliminate the funding for ATF. All are cooked cops.

I have heard that ATF is where they go if they are not good enough for DEA.

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[Billthedrill]

At least one major part of the ATF’s overreach on pistol braces is that it deliberately clogs the Class III applications system with an ATF-estimated 7-9 million people with now-legal firearms hitting the system at once. And the only way to address this deliberately created shortage of resources is - you guessed it - more funding and expansion of staff, part of which was approved by eager House Dems before they hit the door last year. What we have here is not a government agency created to regulate, but regulations created to support a government agency. Bureaucracies work like that.