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Trump expected to name Kash Patel as acting ATF director: Sources
ABC ^
| 2/22/25
| Katherine Faulders and Alexander Mallin
Posted on 02/22/2025 4:15:12 PM PST by hardspunned
President Donald Trump is expected to name FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
A Justice Department official told ABC News that Patel is expected to be sworn into the acting director position early next week.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; atf; banglist; fbi; kashpatel; nra; secondamendment
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Don’t spread him too thin. He has an incredible amount of work to do at FBI. This is a job for Grenell.
To: hardspunned
Does he have time to run a convenience store?
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:17:28 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: hardspunned
Who has a last name better suited to running a convenience store on the side?
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:18:03 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: hardspunned
Impending ending of that agency?
To: hardspunned
Grennel is already running several different projects and titles.
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:21:03 PM PST
by
Jane Long
(Jesus is Lord!)
To: hardspunned
Kash could delegate the authority to Holman who could combine the ATF with ICE. More agents.
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:22:34 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
This could mean ATF gets wrapped into FBI as one org.
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:22:44 PM PST
by
AlmaKing
To: hardspunned
Maybe this means Trump is gonna shut down the ATF?
To: hardspunned
I’d rather have Kash stay busy pruning the FIB. I’d put someone like Bongino at ATF.
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:23:28 PM PST
by
Bullish
(...And just like that I was kicked off the Ping list.)
To: hardspunned
just needs a good deputy to shut it down
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:23:56 PM PST
by
joshua c
To: hardspunned
Agree dont spread him too thin but this may be a preview to seeing ATF consolidated under one department of the DOJ
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:24:16 PM PST
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: Fai Mao
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:24:22 PM PST
by
Kudsman
(House future deportees in the UN building. If they escape, smash the place. )
To: StolarStorm
Impending ending of that agency? My thoughts exactly.
To: Larry Lucido
ROFL! Excellent double entendre!
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:24:50 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
To: AlmaKing
This could mean ATF gets wrapped into FBI as one org.
Which makes sense. They could "streamline" the two agencies in the merger and layoff unwanted people. It's how it's done.
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:24:57 PM PST
by
Dr. Franklin
("A republic, if you can keep it." )
To: hardspunned
Don’t spread him too thin. Won't be any spreading after he trims BATF&E down to paper shufflers for FFLs.
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:27:41 PM PST
by
grobdriver
(The CDC can KMA!)
To: StolarStorm
“Impending ending of that agency?”
We can hope.
Now instead of making laws (as they tend to do), the ATF will have to follow laws (theoretically) . After thinking about it a bit, I think this is a good first move before totally doing away with the agency.
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:29:49 PM PST
by
CFW
To: Paladin2
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store rather than a bureaucracy. BTW, I want my suppressors and FRTs uninfringed upon.
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:30:33 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Fact: There are more airplanes in the ocean than submarines in the sky.)
To: Nervous Tick; Paladin2
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:31:29 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: WKUHilltopper
“Maybe this means Trump is gonna shut down the ATF?”
All us gun owners would be very thankful!!!!!!
ATF is probably the most most corrupt agency
since Mobster Al Capone ran the ATF business in
the USA!
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posted on
02/22/2025 4:31:37 PM PST
by
rellic
(No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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