Posted on 07/11/2014 6:38:31 AM PDT by rellimpank
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LOL! Yup. This is likely to happen right behind the dissolution of the irs and epa. At the very least the unfunding. Who know Sensenbrenner was a stand up comic? There’s reality, and then there’s the house and senate.
Good as a redneck convenience store, but not a federal agency...
I prefer the balkanization of law enforcement. The more you “streamline” the closer to a Police State you get.
BAD idea in the supposed name of “saving money”.
Sensenbrenner is a master of legislating unintended consequences. All this will do is give respectable cover to what the ATF does anyway. The same thugs will enforce the same policies, just while wearing plate carriers with a different and less incendiary three letters stenciled on. I say keep them out in the open as ATF so we can see them clearly.
The problem with the ATF is that the bureaucrats in it have to justify their own existence.
They add nothing of substance and only turn law-abiding gun owners into criminals for their own sick and twisted enjoyment.
I know people who sell food flavors - some of which are used to flavor alcoholic drinks. These ingredients contain no alcohol themselves.
If the product is used in an Alcoholic drink, it needs a special ATF registration number. It takes about 3 years and a boat-load of money to complete the process.
As such, if you want to buy such ingredients, you basically are limited to those companies with the size and huge regulatory staffs. Is ATF protecting American citizens? Or are they protecting favored corporations?
Just a very small example of how big government is crony-capitalist.
Since all other federal agencies have their own SWAT teams let’s get rid of the US Marshals too.
I hate those ATF jerks. When they don’t have mentally retarded people to entrap and children to gas with the fbi they send out their little thugs to inspect machine shops. They have been around half a dozen times in my city.
Sensenbrenner speaks on the ATF
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ATF should not be absorbed into any other agencies. ATF employees from the top to the bottom should be simply fired and not permitted to work in any sort of law enforcement within the borders of the USA or its possessions ever again. Actually dissolving the ATF will create a danger even as it mitigates a bad situation. All those trained storm troopers will find work somewhere, most within their own area of expertise and training. The end of the Vietnam war contributed a bit to the militarization of local police with the drawdown of Spec Forces for that reason.
Yeah, I’m sure they can handle this over at the IRS.
Good. Get rid of it and then the EPA.
The ATF should be disbanded and the enforcement personnel moved to ICE, where their tactics would be more appreciated.
what’s less funny is the possibility of their functions
being given to other FedGov agencies. David Codrea’s
War on Guns blog has a recent post on this
Yup. Say the newly formed DHS unit of FGMYGN. Federal Gimme Your Guns Now unit?
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Repeal GCA68 to start.
Time to dissolve the ATF: Jim Sensenbrenner (Lead editorial in the Milwaukee Journal Sensenbrenner)
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