{"id":100570,"date":"2024-03-08T16:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100570"},"modified":"2024-03-08T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T22:39:35","slug":"100570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100570","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

ATF DIRECTOR LAMENTS CONGRESSIONAL, AMERICANS\u2019 DISTRUST TO UPEND SECOND AMENDMENT<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach joined\u00a0CBS\u2019s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to talk about violent crime committed with firearms and the tools he wants from Congress. The problem is those requests have already been rejected by Congress for good reason. Those tools would violate federal law and would chip away at the rights of those who obey the law without actually addressing the problem of crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in Baltimore a few weeks ago with the law enforcement there, and it\u2019s like, almost a 20 percent drop in homicides, but looks to me the caveat is that for many years in this country, we\u2019ve had a very serious gun crime problem,\u201d Director Dettelbach\u00a0explained<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cAnd we are the outlier among almost all Western modern nations, and not the outlier in a good way.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u00a0added later<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWell, I look at- look, I mean, data doesn\u2019t lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Juxtapose that with Director Dettelbach repeating the verifiably false claim that firearms are the leading cause of death among children. That\u2019s just not true.<\/p>\n

False Narrative<\/h4>\n

\u201cThe leading cause of death of children in the United States is firearms violence, right,\u201d Director Dettelbach\u00a0said<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cNot cancer, not cars. Guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s patently false. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris like to trot out the line in their gun control speeches even though it\u2019s been proven to be false. The Washington Post, hardly a firearm-friendly news agency, admitted the narrative is false. To make the claim, The White House and now Director Dettelbach include people age 18 and 19. The problem is, 18 and 19-year-olds are adults, not children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you focus only on children \u2014 17 and younger \u2014 motor vehicle deaths (broadly defined) still rank No. 1, as they have for six decades,\u201d\u00a0The<\/strong>\u00a0Washington Post reported<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cIn the interest of accuracy, it would be better for White House officials to refer to children and teens when citing these reports. When all motor vehicle accidents are counted, then motor vehicle deaths continue to exceed firearm deaths for children \u2014 defined as people under age 18 \u2014 whether or not infants are included.\u201d<\/p>\n

NSSF\u00a0has blasted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0this twisting of data to arrive at the heated talking point. The claim in question came about as a result of a\u00a0faulty study published by the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention in April 2022<\/strong><\/a>. That study included Americans aged 18 and 19 years old \u2013 adults \u2013 in the data set as well as manipulated motor vehicle crash data to assert firearms became the \u201cleading cause of death among children and adolescents\u201d in 2020. NSSF debunked the study when it was published in April 2022.<\/p>\n

Like Director Dettelbach said in his\u00a0Face the Nation interview<\/strong><\/a>: data doesn\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n

Differing Ideas<\/h4>\n

Director Dettelbach lamented that the debate over firearms has become too heated. He recalled a meeting he had with residents of Lewiston, Maine, following the tragic criminal attack on innocent Americans there. He admitted that some in attendance, who were families of victims and victims themselves, were deeply suspicious of heavy-handed government intrusion on their rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose people were able to sit in that room with all that grief and have a discussion,\u201d Director Dettelbach\u00a0explained<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cTell me what they \u2013 what they \u2013 their feelings, differing feelings about how we should approach this problem. And they all had ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are differing ideas. That\u2019s why NSSF partners with the ATF to prevent the illegal straw purchasing of firearms in the \u201cDon\u2019t Lie for the Other Guy<\/strong>TM<\/sup><\/a>\u201d campaign, of which he spoke. NSSF also partners with ATF for\u00a0Operation Secure Store<\/a><\/strong>\u00ae to help firearm retailers improve security at their stores. However, there are some ideas that are just unacceptable.<\/p>\n

Director Dettelbach bemoaned that Congress refuses to give him the authority to implement universal background checks. In fact, Congress has roundly rejected that idea because the Department of Justice (DoJ) admitted that for universal background checks to work, every law-abiding gun owner would need to be placed on a national firearm registry. That\u2019s forbidden by federal law.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo again, really, you know, people ask me, what\u2019s my top priority? What\u2019s my- what\u2019s my wish list? I think the reality is it\u2019s going to be a lot of things that we have to do to get out of this situation to make things better,\u201d\u00a0Director Dettelbach said<\/strong><\/a>. \u201c\u2026 if Congress wants to consider more on universal background checks\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why Congress isn\u2019t giving in on surrendering the rights of law-abiding citizens to the government. It\u2019s a false sense of security that would trade the rights of those who obey the law for an unkept promise to go after those who break the law. Congress is the representative government of \u201cWe, the People\u2026\u201d The \u201cPeople\u201d have been given every reason to distrust the government when it comes to protecting their Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

Untrustworthy Track Record<\/h4>\n

Just weeks ago, the U.S. Treasury Department\u00a0admitted<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) violated the private banking and financial records of Americans to create a government watchlist that included anyone who bought a gun, ammunition \u2013 even a Bible \u2013 or shopped at one of several big box sporting goods stores.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration\u2019s Commerce Department has been working to\u00a0throttle firearm exports<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in an attempt to kneecap U.S. firearm manufacturers. The Commerce Department\u2019s Bureau of Industry and Security issued a \u201c90-day pause\u201d that\u2019s well beyond the initial 90 days to halt nearly all firearm exports while the administration re-examines policy. That\u2019s despite the strongest safeguards that have been in place ever. The United States sets the leading standard in the world for firearm exports.\u00a0All firearm and ammunition exports are \u2013 and always were \u2013 subject to both Defense and State Department review<\/a><\/strong>, and either can halt the export if there are security or human rights concerns. Firearm and ammunition license applications undergo a 100 percent end-user check by the BIS Office of Export Enforcement (OEE), regardless of how long an exporting company has been doing business with that customer, regardless of how many times the buyer was subjected to an end-user check and regardless of whether BIS has no derogatory information on that customer, even if the end-user was recently approved.\u00a0At present, no other commodity is subject to the same 100 percent check.<\/p>\n

There are more reasons why Congress is suspect of handing the reins over to the Biden administration when it comes to Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights. ATF itself has shown a willingness to infringe on Second Amendment rights through the rule-making process. ATF wrote a proposed \u201cengaged-in-the-business\u201d rule that would require nearly all private firearm sellers to obtain a federal firearms license and run background checks. Congress made a one-word change to the definition of \u201cengaged-in-the-business\u201d in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA). ATF used that to launch 108 pages to require an estimated 328,000 additional licensees.\u00a0It\u2019s not just unconstitutional. It\u2019s unfeasible<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is\u00a0demanding answers<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from Director Dettelbach, noting that the BSCA said the revised \u201cengaged-in-the-business\u201d definition \u201cshall not include a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n

ATF also published a Final Rule redefining \u201cframes or receivers\u201d in an effort to outlaw the ability for law-abiding private citizens to make their own firearms in their own home for private use. That was legal even before the founding of the nation. That rule is being\u00a0challenged in courts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for exceeding the authority of ATF to set criminal code, which is the sole authority of Congress. It is likely to be petitioned to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the recently-challenged Final Rule banning bump stocks, which was just heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. That challenge also\u00a0questioned ATF\u2019s authority to write criminal law<\/strong><\/a>. A decision is expected later this year.<\/p>\n

There are more examples of why Congress \u2013 and the American public \u2013 distrust the federal government when it comes to their Second Amendment rights, including the Obama-Biden administration\u2019s abusive\u00a0Operation Choke Point<\/a><\/strong>, the ill-fated ATF\u00a0Fast and Furious<\/a><\/strong>, California\u2019s\u00a0\u201caccidental\u201d release<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of concealed carry permit holders\u2019 information to the general public and the same instance of\u00a0New York City releasing concealed carry permit holders\u2019 information<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to the media.<\/p>\n

Data \u2013 and history \u2013 don\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ATF DIRECTOR LAMENTS CONGRESSIONAL, AMERICANS\u2019 DISTRUST TO UPEND SECOND AMENDMENT The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach joined\u00a0CBS\u2019s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan\u00a0to talk about violent crime committed with firearms and the tools he wants from Congress. The problem is those requests have already been rejected by Congress for … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-crap-for-brains","category-you-cant-make-this-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100571,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100570\/revisions\/100571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}