NSSF-Backed ATF Director Nominee Vows ‘Not to Burden Lawful Gun Owners or Undermine the Second Amendment’
“The right to keep and bear arms is a Constitutional guarantee and I am committed to protecting and preserving it.”
“The right to keep and bear arms is a Constitutional guarantee and I am committed to protecting and preserving it.”
No federal agency has withered under President Donald Trump’s second term quite like the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The rule comes at a time when states are increasingly liberalizing their regulation of marijuana and as a Second Amendment challenge to the underlying statute looms at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The same agency that spent years acting like Biden’s personal enforcement arm is getting funded at near record levels, with few meaningful restrictions on how it can use that money.
Data also indicates that 32,091,000 AR-15 platform rifles are in circulation since 1990, making them the most popular centerfire rifle sold in America.
On Friday, NSSF announced that it got word that ATF processed over 150,000 eForms on Jan. 1. The normal daily volume is closer to 2,500.
Marijuana is still very much a controlled substance under the CSA…it’s just been moved from one classification under the law to another.
To make the necessary upgrades to handle the law change, they’re going to shut the eForms system down for Form 1 and Form 4 submissions after Christmas to let their geeks get to work.
We’ve never mentioned, until now, how Adamiak spends his days behind bars at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey, which is home to about 4,000 other federal inmates.
This latest proposal by ATF appears to be part of the ongoing effort announced as a “new era of reform” as posted on the ATF website earlier this year.