Acronym Fun! USAID Is TU, Now ATF Can BOGU

We hear Diddy’s got some baby oil to make things easier.

Now that USAID is Tango Uniform, it’s the ATF’s turn to bend over and grease up.

And it really couldn’t happen to a nicer group of unelected bureaucrats, could it? The headline news here is that, as of Saturday the 22nd of February, new FBI director Kash Patel is currently doing double duty as the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. As Guns & Gadgets Daily columnist Mo Rockwell reported on Friday, Patel’s leadership of the FBI is already a huge win for Second Amendment supporters nationwide.

This is happening with a speed we’d never have imagined just six months ago. We’ve gone from midnight no-knock shoot-first ATF raids on law-abiding gun owners to … well, whatever’s coming next. Patel is only in charge of the ATF until a new director can be confirmed by Congress–it’s highly unlikely that anyone, no matter how energetic, could lead both the FBI and the ATF indefinitely.

Well, that is, unless the ATF is done away with altogether or folded into the FBI’s domestic federal law enforcement charter. The former would be a dream come true; the latter is more likely. But whatever happens from now through the rest of this Administration, we can pretty much count on the end of the worst abuses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. No more reclassifying the definition of a “gun” and making us all felons overnight. No more showing up at Americans’ doorsteps without warrants but a desire to come in anyway. And no more Malinowskis.

Furthermore, it’s time for some accountability for the decision-makers at the ATF. We’re quite certain that many ATF officers and agents have done things that would have landed the rest of us in Federal PMITA Prison (now THERE’s a fun acronym) right next to the January 6 defendants. Wouldn’t it be amusing if they faced the same sort of consequences that everyday American citizens could expect under the same circumstances?

Here’s the NSSF’s wishlist. What’s on yours?

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NSSF Urges ATF to Heed Senators’ Call to Kill Unlawful Gun Control Regulations

WASHINGTON, D.C.  — NSSF^®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, urges the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to heed the call by U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and 29 other U.S. Senators to quickly act on President Donald Trump’s Executive Order to review and roll back unconstitutional gun control regulations and rules that were levied on the firearm industry by the previous White House administration.

A letter, sent to Marvin G. Richardson, ATF Deputy Director, specifically called on the agency to formally end the “engaged-in-the-business” rule, the pistol-brace rule, the “ghost gun” rule and ATF’s “zero tolerance” policy that has forced small business firearm retailers to lose or surrender their licenses for minor clerical errors discovered during inspections.

“The previous administration wielded the ATF like a hammer and anvil against the firearm industry, turning the regulatory agency into one that punished and carried out a radical gun control agenda designed to diminish Second Amendment rights. President Donald Trump – along with Senator John Cornyn and these dozens of other senators – are righting the ship and returning ATF to its mandated role as a law enforcement agency focused on combatting violent crime and to act as a non-partisan regulator of the firearm industry,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “The rules specifically identified by the senators were designed to punish the firearm industry and usher in gun control outside of the legislative process. NSSF has protested these rules ever since they were announced and is heartened that the Trump administration and the Senate are acting quickly to protect Second Amendment rights and the lawful firearm industry. NSSF encourages ATF to act quickly on Senator Cornyn’s letter and enact these reforms to roll back unconstitutional overreaches brought by the Biden administration.”

In addition to urging the ATF to roll back the punishing and unconstitutional measures, the Senate letter urges ATF to “immediately destroy the hundreds of millions of ATF Form 4473 firearm transaction records and other licensee records that are over 20 years old. These records have no particular law enforcement value but do contain the sensitive information of millions of law-abiding gun owners.”

NSSF concurs with this request as those two-decade-old background check forms hold little value providing actionable law enforcement leads to solve crimes. This action would ensure gun owners’ privacy is protected and reduce administrative burdens to firearm trace requests. Prior to the Biden administration, federal firearm licenses were not required to retain these records after 20 years.