Dettelbach Interview Made Clear ATF Has No Business Regulating Firearms
It turns out Joe Biden’s second choice to lead the ATF, Steve Dettelbach, wasn’t lying when he told his Senate confirmation committee that he wasn’t a firearms expert. Dettelbach appeared Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation, accompanied by Agent Chris Bort, whom the ATF Director described as one of his “leading experts.” From a public […]
ATF Director Frustrated That Congress, The Courts, and the Public Don’t Want ATF to Make Their Own Gun Control Laws
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach joined CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan to talk about violent crime committed with firearms and the tools he wants from Congress. The problem is those requests have already been rejected by Congress for good reason. Those tools would violate federal law and would […]
The Federal Prohibition Against a National Gun Registry Makes ATF Director Dettelbach Sad
The ATF is prohibited by federal law from creating a centralized database of registered gun owners. Instead, they must sort through a system of records, of which they are sent millions per month, according to [ATF Director Steve] Dettelbach. The director said tracing crime guns is one of the areas of intelligence that is “so […]