This Is What We Voted For: ATF Removes CLEO Notification Requirement From NFA Forms
Yesterday ATF published a laundry list of proposed changes to NFA form in the Federal Register and among them is removal of the CLEO notification mandate.
Yesterday ATF published a laundry list of proposed changes to NFA form in the Federal Register and among them is removal of the CLEO notification mandate.
Rep. Ben Cline led his colleagues in a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives urging its acting director to make certain employees essential workers, warning current parameters are leaving gun owners’ applications for certain items in limbo.
The long-running and valid criticism of the ATF is that they bend the law with bullshit rulemaking to say things the law never was intended to say. Cases in point: the defunct bumpstock and pistol brace rules.
It’s not difficult to gauge the ATF’s intent after their arrest of Patrick “Tate” Adamiak. Their agents’ actions and the
The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency has sent staff to the agency that enforces federal gun laws with the goal of revising or eliminating more than 50 rules and gun restrictions by July 4, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
On the Court’s logic, ATF could at any time declare AR–15s to be machineguns prohibited by federal law. Until we resolve whether the 2A forecloses that, law-abiding AR–15 owners must rely on the goodwill of a federal agency to retain their means of self-defense.
“What they want to do is deny the reality that gun violence exists and that makes me very angry,” said Brady president Kris Brown.
If Giffords wants to defend the ATF, it should explain why the agency deserves to exist after a half-century of failure, abuse, and constitutional violations.
Truth be known, Attorney General Pam Bondi or her staff should examine all of the ATF’s cases made during Biden’s term. Some were much worse than this one.
The goal of the virulently anti-gun Biden administration was to find as many FFLs as possible in violation of ATF’s regulations and shut them down. The agency’s inspectors yanked the tickets of literally hundreds of FFLs over the years. Now that abuse has finally come to an end.