In the end, nothing will change. Congress will allow the ATF to do whatever the hell they want as long as they keep it quiet.
See my post #73.
Absolutely right. ATF has been doing a lot worse than this for decades and no one in Congress or the White house has ever said squat. After the noise dies down about these latest outrages BATF will go right on it's merry way just as it has ever since it was created by LBJ's 1968 GCA. BATF's jack-booted thugs are about as likely to being reigned in by Congress for their gross excesses as Gestapo thugs were likely to be punished by Hitler for cruelty to Jews.
If it ever came out how many innocent gun dealers and gun owners have been unlawfully harassed, lost property to illegal seizures, verbally abused, and even physically assaulted by BATF thugs it would make John Gotti's mafia goons look like choir boys. Not many years a go a totally innocent PA gun dealer who was disabled with a severe heart disease was raided in his home by a gang of JBTs fishing for something to nail him on. The thugs abused his young son who tried to run away, then ransacked his home for hours while the family was held at gunpoint. As the thugs finally left his almost totally wrecked home one of the female thugettes paused long enough to stomp to death his young daughter's pet cat who happened to walk by. And that incident is just one of thousands just as bad or worse.
What is so maddening is that if you try to fight BATF in court you lose every time because juries seem to always believe that anyone from a federal agency is totally honest and above board in everything he or she does. After all, the federal government is our protector and friend, right? Wrong, in the case of BATF thugs at least, nothing could be farther from the truth.
BATF thugs did a real number on me during Clinton's 1st term when I was forced out of business for no reason except that BATF under Clinton was doing whatever it took to reduce the number of gun dealers in the US. Clinton got his way, the number of federally licensed gun dealers dropped over 80% during Clinton's 1st term.
My local city officials aren't much better. They wouldn't help me in my fight with BATF even though they knew perfectly well that I was 100% in the right and was being unjustly driven out of business by BATF. In fact they cooperated fully with the JBTs in every unjustified thing they were asked to do. In the eyes of most city officials, gun stores rank about 20 notches below whorehouses, loan sharks, and drug dealers on the "undesirable businesses" list.