If the underlying laws and regulations are not also dealt with, the enforcement of them will simply fall to another bunch of bureaucraps.\nOtherwise, it’s just another example of Political Kabuki Theater.<\/p>\n
Rep. Lauren Boebert Introduces Bill to Abolish the ATF<\/a><\/p>\nRep. Lauren Boebert (R) has introduced legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).<\/p>\nThe bill is H.R. 129 and it comes at a point when Republicans are just weeks away from holding the House, Senate and White House.<\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/lauren-boebert-bill-abolish-atf-2010746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">noted<\/a>\u00a0Boebert\u2019s push to do away with the agency is the latest in line of Republican pushes to see the agency undone.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in November 2024, Rep. Eric Burlison (R) called for the agency to be abolished as well.<\/p>\n<p>On November 25, 2024, Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2024\/11\/25\/as-trump-heads-to-white-house-rep-burlison-pushes-plan-to-abolish-atf\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that Burlison told FOX News the ATF is \u201ca disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">He said, \u201cFor several decades they\u2019ve been a disaster agency [which has] been violating the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The ATF issued numerous rules during the Biden\/Harris administration, one of which criminalized owners of legally purchased AR-pistol stabilizer braces. Another one of the ATF\u2019s rules declared that 80 percent complete firearm frames are firearms and therefore can only be acquired via background checks. Yet another ATF rule circumvented Congress via new regulations against private gun sales.<\/p>\n<p>On January 2, 2024, Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2025\/01\/02\/joe-bidens-atf-director-tenders-resignation-ahead-donald-trumps-inauguration\/\">pointed out<\/a>\u00a0that Biden\u2019s ATF director, Steven Dettelbach, tendered his resignation effective January 18, 2025, two days before Trump retakes the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms chairman Alan Gottlieb cheered the resignation, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s one less person Trump will have to fire after he takes office, and it is one less gun prohibition lobbyist on the government payroll.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the underlying laws and regulations are not also dealt with, the enforcement of them will simply fall to another bunch of bureaucraps. Otherwise, it’s just another example of Political Kabuki Theater. Rep. Lauren Boebert Introduces Bill to Abolish the ATF Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) has introduced legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, … <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “”<\/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":[39,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106661","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=106661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106662,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106661\/revisions\/106662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) has introduced legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).<\/p>\n
The bill is H.R. 129 and it comes at a point when Republicans are just weeks away from holding the House, Senate and White House.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/lauren-boebert-bill-abolish-atf-2010746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">noted<\/a>\u00a0Boebert\u2019s push to do away with the agency is the latest in line of Republican pushes to see the agency undone.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in November 2024, Rep. Eric Burlison (R) called for the agency to be abolished as well.<\/p>\n<p>On November 25, 2024, Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2024\/11\/25\/as-trump-heads-to-white-house-rep-burlison-pushes-plan-to-abolish-atf\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that Burlison told FOX News the ATF is \u201ca disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">He said, \u201cFor several decades they\u2019ve been a disaster agency [which has] been violating the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">The ATF issued numerous rules during the Biden\/Harris administration, one of which criminalized owners of legally purchased AR-pistol stabilizer braces. Another one of the ATF\u2019s rules declared that 80 percent complete firearm frames are firearms and therefore can only be acquired via background checks. Yet another ATF rule circumvented Congress via new regulations against private gun sales.<\/p>\n<p>On January 2, 2024, Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2nd-amendment\/2025\/01\/02\/joe-bidens-atf-director-tenders-resignation-ahead-donald-trumps-inauguration\/\">pointed out<\/a>\u00a0that Biden\u2019s ATF director, Steven Dettelbach, tendered his resignation effective January 18, 2025, two days before Trump retakes the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms chairman Alan Gottlieb cheered the resignation, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s one less person Trump will have to fire after he takes office, and it is one less gun prohibition lobbyist on the government payroll.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the underlying laws and regulations are not also dealt with, the enforcement of them will simply fall to another bunch of bureaucraps. Otherwise, it’s just another example of Political Kabuki Theater. Rep. Lauren Boebert Introduces Bill to Abolish the ATF Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) has introduced legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, … <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “”<\/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":[39,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106661","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=106661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106662,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106661\/revisions\/106662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}