‘Don’t Worry,’ They Said…’There Is No Federal Gun Registry,’ They Said…
The ATF’s system is “not a registry in name only,” but “a confiscation list waiting to be used.”
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.
“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.