Remember how Reagan wanted to fold BATF into the Secret Service? The Homeland Security bill which passed the House (HR 5710) takes BATF away from Treasury and brings it under the Justice Dept.
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I want to see if folded into the toilet. As far as the Justice Department, where was the justice department ar Waco? What we have is rogue bureasus and rogeue federal agents being shifted around with little serious change. The BATF was originally designed to be concerned with booze. Leave the F off of it.
Preaching to the choir here, RLK. But, an ATF under the Justice Dept is closer to being disbanded that one which is 'enforcing' for Treasury.
All an Attorney General would need to do is find that ATF is redundant of existing Justice functions and poof.