Sen. Feinstein wants President Obama to “ensure that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) fully enforces the ban on the importation of these military-style firearms.”
It’s been a bad week for the ATF leading up to yesterday’s publicity about a new subpoena issued by the House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. Darrell Issa,
and now Feinstein wants to drag the agency even deeper into the mire.
All of this once again raises a question that has been discussed and
debated for several years: Should the role of ATF be significantly
altered – say to nothing more than a regulatory operation – or should
the agency, with a reputation for somewhat “rogue” behavior, be
abolished altogether?
It’s a fair question, considering the re-erupting scandal over ATF
“storefront sting” operations in six cities called “Operation Fearless.”
As this column reported yesterday, Congressman Issa says the agency has
been stonewalling for a year on his inquiries about the operation that
was exposed by a series of stories in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Last weekend’s raid on California’s Ares Armor
has become something of an internet sensation, with video posted on
YouTube, and CEO Dimitrios Karras actively pleading his case to the
court of public opinion.
People still have questions about the ATF’s horribly mismanaged
Operation Fast and Furious, which allowed a couple of thousand guns to
travel into the criminal pipeline to Mexico, and was the source of a gun
linked directly to the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in
December 2010.
More Here at Seattle Gun Rights Examiner
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The ATF absolutely needs to be abolished. Completely destroyed. Eliminated in its entirety. It does nothing but turn law-abiding citizens into criminals for its own amusement.
Any good that the ATF does is more than negated by the innocent people it turns into criminals.
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