Bondi has instituted a new interim final rule that takes the process away from ATF where it’s been unfunded and dormant for the last three decades. The new rule goes into effect immediately, though the public can comment for the next 90 days.
Patrick Adamiak committed no crime, so why is he still serving a 20-year sentence? Because ATF screwed up, and they’d rather charge an innocent man and force him to serve two decades behind bars than admit the truth.
When those who have worn a badge look at everything the ATF has done, from its incredibly sloppy search warrants to its obscene uses of lethal force, they realize it’s time to get rid of the entire agency.
In this case, weaponized Biden administration ATF couldn’t strut in, close down another gun shop, and force the owner to turn over all of their guns…so they didn’t take the case.
There’s only one problem with the Tiahrt amendment that prohibits ATF disclosure of gun trace data…it has no teeth. In other words, there’s no penalty for ATF violating the law, which they did as part of Biden’s war on guns.
Unlike the bureaucrats and anti-gun zealots who have traditionally run the agency, Dan O’Kelly actually understands firearms, their mechanics, and their place in American history.
If the Trump administration doesn’t make this a top priority, it risks a decision that is uninformed by the Executive Branch’s position on a constitutional right exercised by millions of Americans.
ATF is a sick joke and should be shuttered permanently, because ATF agents would rather charge a completely innocent man with bogus federal felonies and lie under oath than admit they screwed up.
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.
Mass surveillance is a slippery slope, and history has proven that when a government agency like ATF has the power to secretly track its citizens, it inevitably abuses that power.
