No, there isn’t a repeal of the NFA. And no, the ATF isn’t going to be defunded or abolished any time soon. But we have to take and cheer the wins when and were we can get them.
The U.S. Senate is a deliberative governing body, and it proved it with the confirmation of the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Robert Cekada
It’s good news that ATF might loosen the pistol kit ban, b ut the power to loosen the laws is just the flip side of the power to tighten the laws, and that’s a power that no one entity should possess.
Blanche’s framing of the administration’s new policy announcement as something that will “change everything” sets an unusually high bar for public expectations.
The ATF’s system is “not a registry in name only,” but “a confiscation list waiting to be used.”
Career officials may be all too aware of the political priorities of ATF and DOJ senior leadership and may be actively trying to undermine and embarrass their bosses who operate at the political levels.
Fewer firearm thefts mean fewer illegally obtained firearms in the hands of criminals who would misuse them to commit acts of violence.
Adamiak spends his days like any other federal inmate. However, there’s one massive difference. The entire prison system knows he’s not guilty of committing any crime.
It has been illegal since 1986 for the federal government to establish a national forearms registry. The bureaucrats at ATF, enabled by Biden-era policy changes, have taken that as a challenge.
