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Posted on 04/18/2023 1:54:17 PM PDT by george76
Steve Dettelbach, the man President Biden chose to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), followed in the footsteps of other Biden administration officials who have been stumped by seemingly straightforward questions from lawmakers, questions that deal with subjects within what is supposed to be their purview.
On Tuesday, Director Dettelbach was asked by Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-TX) to give a brief, 15-second definition of the term "assault weapon," the thing President Biden and Democrats have demanded must be banned within the United States in order to reduce the frequency of crimes committed by individuals with guns. Dettelbach, however, came up completely empty during his testimony in the House Appropriations Committee's hearing focused on the ATF's FY2024 budget.
"I’ll go shorter than that because I, honestly, if Congress wishes to take that up, I think Congress would have to do the work, but we would be there to provide technical assistance," Dettelbach told Ellzey. Huh? So, the man in charge of ATF doesn't even have a guess when it comes to defining a firearm type that is mentioned and demonized almost daily by the White House?
"I, unlike you, am not a firearms expert, to the same extent as you maybe, but we have people at ATF who can talk about velocity of firearms, what damage different kinds of firearms cause, so that whatever determination you chose to make would be an informed one," Dettelbach added, confirming that President Biden had put forward another entirely unqualified person to lead a powerful wing of federal bureaucracy.
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Biden, his administration, and Democrats in Congress have insisted that "assault weapons" be banned, even though the term is only a buzzword that Biden's own ATF director — and likely Biden himself — can't define. That's because anything can be an assault weapon. A rock, a rifle, a handgun, a person's fist, a squirrel swung with enough velocity.
But the lack of specificity of the term hasn't stopped Democrats from renewing their push to ban "assault weapons." Nor has the fact that the previous iteration of the ban on "assault weapons" did not — according to the federal Department of Justice and other left-of-center studies — cause a reduction in the number of gun crimes nor the lethality of those crimes. Biden claims to be the previous ban's mastermind, but it didn't work — no matter how many times the Biden administration claims the opposite is true.
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So, the Biden administration is wrong about the efficacy of bans on "assault weapons," the Biden administration can't even define the term, and its ATF director is — by his own admission — lacking basic knowledge about firearms.
High velocity automobiles are a danger greater.
Kinetic energy equals one half the mass times the velocity squared.
Mass is the objects weight divided by the acceleration of gravity as weighed. Velocity is in like terms.
Take a 4000 pound auto at 60 mph or 88 feet per second and acceleration pf gravity is 32.16 feet per second per second or ft per second squared do the math and that dang car has 481,592 foot pounds of kinetic energy far far more than any magazines of ammo. Double the speed and quadruple the energy. No talk of common sense here
That is like having the food truck cook in charge of the Accounting at General Motors.
Weapons that have been used in an assault are assault weapons. Weapons that haven’t aren’t. Even if they are identical to the weapons used in the assaults.
He’s just another Jew who HATES guns!! if ONLY Jews had guns in Germany things would be SO different! DUMBASSES!
Same difference
They are just about to pass a law in Washington state that will classify any semi-auto with a thumbhole stock as an “assault rifle”. A quick search showed Winchester has a hunting rifle like that (wood stock).
David’s sling shot and stone
There I fixed it for you
A lever action Winchester is far too effective of a weapon for the common man to own. <> The Libs always refer to the common military arm at the time of the signing of the Constitution when referring to weapons imagined by the framers of the Constitution when writing the 2nd Amendment.
The Brown Bess was considered the finest military arm at the time of the signing of the Constitution.
Anything that is more effective than the Brown Bess must be an assault weapon.
And an automobile can accelerate between human impacts.
All weapons are made for assaulting.
It’s “Idiocracy” IRL. Stunning.
Batfe is where the definitions and classifications for everything firerm, are determined. They ALL know that.
He punted because he knows there is no definition that exists, and that no one can pin it down. Its just a political shock/scare term.
They had to redefine what a “vaccine” was formthe gene therapy shots to qualify...by watering down the definition quite a bit.
When ẅorking in the mountains of Vietnam I carried a Winchester Model 12 pump shotgun. 12 gauge of course.
Does that make pump shotguns “assault weapons”?
They talk first & misunderstand later.
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