Pour the alphabet soup down the sewer of outdated $hit. That goes for every letter.
The ATF was primarily a tax collection agency until the GCA of 1968. When they expanded it to regulating guns, they screwed up.
Kill the ATF.
I heard the ATFE should be a convenience store and not a government agency.
Then he can close IRS, TSA, DHS, EPA, DoE, HHS, and oh....the list goes on forever.
Maybe keep the DoD. Rename it back to its old name: War Department.
Might as well be honest.
In this economy, isn’t that what unemployment is?
How was this thing formed anyway? Was there a problem with people who like to drink, smoke , shoot and blow stuff up?
Isn’t it an old joke that Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm’s should be the name of a convenience store, not a government agency!
Felonies for EVERY illegally kept Form 4473.
Defund and disband, discontinue the duties.
ATF’s responsibilities need to be checked against Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. I suspect that ATF does things that cannot be justified under Section 8.
Why transfer the responsibility to Justice Dept????
Why can’t Congress just decide what the function of a new ATF would be - or what stays and what goes? Isn’t that Congress’ job?
So it’s started. I tell you, folks, if the GOP takes the Senate, funding bills are going to get interesting.
First of all, I think you’ll see the end of the Continuing Resolution in favor of individual spending bills.
And if Obama doesn’t go along, just don’t fund the agency at all. It’s hard to veto a bill that he doesn’t get, but no funding bill, no money. How hard would it be to see the ATF shut down completely for lack of funding? Or the Department of Education? Or the EPA? Or Valerie Jarrett’s secret service detail?
Congress has the power of the purse, and that power is significant. I’m betting that Boehner and McConnell will use it in some very creative, and currently unanticipated, ways.
Besides, I’ve had my current tagline for years now, and it’s about time someone tried implementing it.
“I don’t know if his plan is good or not, because having the Justice Deparment transfer the duties would put even more power into the demonic hands of Eric Holder or other evildoers of his ilk. Why not simply eliminate the duties of the ATF entirely, and have all of its employees executed for treason?
A CAPITAL idea! Turn them over to ISIL!
In Pennsylvania back in the 1990’s then Republican Governor Tom Ridge campaigned on the notion that the agency regulating the environment was not organized properly and he gave it a new name.
It didn’t stop the environmental regulation, just gave it a new name.
Why stop there? How about the EPA, too?
And the Department of Education.
For starters.
Actions speak louder than words.I’m all for it.
I just wonder if the rest of the Republican politico’s agree.
Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore
Same as my Daddy and his Daddy before
You hardly ever saw grandaddy down here
He only come to town about twice a year
He’d buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line.
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
Now the revenue man wanted grandad bad
He headed up the holler with everything he had
‘fore my time but I’ve been told
He never come back from Copperhead Road.
Steve Earl-”Copperhead Road”
How they dealt with BATFE back in the day.
I like the idea of dissolving ATF, particularly if they repeal a few major federal gun laws at the same time. There should be no restrictions at all on silencers, and there should be no tax stamp and no yearlong delay for fully automatic firearms or short-barreled rifles/shotguns.