Gun control activists, lobbyists, and other were already traumatized by the firing of ATF chief counsel Pamela Hicks. Patel in charge of the federal firearms regulator could well touch off a complete meltdown.
Mexico President Sheinbaum threatened, “If they declare these criminal groups as terrorists, then we’ll have to expand our U.S. lawsuit,” to claim that U.S. firearm manufacturers are complicit in aiding narco-terrorist drug cartels.
But the most ridiculous commission member is Todd Lizotte, the President and CEO of Bold Laser Automation. He’s also the patent holder of microstamping technology and stands to reap a financial windfall if Massachusetts requires this unproven, technologically unfeasible requirement on firearms sold in the Commonwealth.
The previous administration wielded the ATF like a hammer against the firearm industry, turning the regulatory agency into one that punished and carried out a radical gun control agenda designed to diminish 2A rights.
“I reload all my own ammo. I gunsmith on my stuff. Some people watch football on Sunday, I’m usually at my reloading bench. We, my wife and I, we eat, sleep and breathe this stuff – big defenders of the Second Amendment and this industry.”
“Trump is going to get Americans killed in his eagerness to please the gun lobby. Remember the next time that a mass shooting happens, Trump did everything in his power to enable it, not prevent it.”
“I think it’s time to start having discussions, which will hopefully lead to the training necessary to safely own a handgun. So, how have you all handled approaching discussions with family members?”
If it’s “racist” to require voter ID, what do you call a CCW process that requires a police interview, training course, fingerprinting, sometimes a psych exam, as much as two years wait time, and costs up to $2,000?
While many in the gun community celebrated the feds indicting Michael Madigan, we should have been careful what we wished for, because in politics, the alternative can always be far worse.
It turns out, though, that billions of Bloomberg bucks and even more money from George and Alexander Soros weren’t enough for gun control advocates. They wanted taxpayer dollars, too.
