Brandon Herrara has a roundup of exciting changes sweeping the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, AKA ATF, AKA BATFE:
“Today we’re talking about some major shakeups that are happening at the ATF right now.”
“A lot of shit’s on the chopping block right now, and heads are rolling at the ATF.”
“The ATF under Kash Patel [Amusingly, YouTube autotranscript renders his name as “Cash Pat Mattel.” -LP] has just reversed a huge pain in the ass in the gun industry and the gun community. He’s doing great things. I hope he sticks around. We’ll get to that.”
“The zero tolerance policy is one of the most egregious ways that the Biden administration weaponized the ATF.”
“They realized they couldn’t go after the individual right to keep and bear arms (I know, crazy. It’s almost like it’s in the fucking constitution). They would go after the people who were selling and manufacturing the guns, which is where they started weaponizing audits on mom and pop FFLs.”
“The ATF had a history of doing audits on FFLs, where basically they’ll they’ll come in they’ll make sure that you’ve got all the guns on the books that you’re supposed to have. And basically, they’re just making sure that you’re not hawking guns out the back of your gun store to the fucking cartel, because only the ATF can do that.”
“But instead of using these audits to actually catch people who are committing real crimes and selling to people they’re legally not supposed to, they started going after every little minor clerical error they possibly could. People who weren’t dotting their “i”s, crossing their “T”s. Maybe you use the acronym for the state that you live in instead of the full name of the state written out. Any little thing to say that paperwork wasn’t filled out correctly, so that they could revoke your FFL.”
“So instead of going after people who were actually committing real crimes and selling to people that they weren’t supposed to, they were going after every little clerical error that they could to shut down local gun stores. Mom and pop places. Anybody who basically couldn’t afford to fight the federal government in court.”
“In the first few months, when the Biden administration rolled this out: FFL revocations, people losing their business, losing their livelihood; FFL revocation was up over 500%. They couldn’t ban the guns, so they got fucking shady about it.”
His congressional testimony covering the same ground snipped.
“But now if you have an FFL, you can breathe a small sigh of relief, because the zero tolerance policy has now been removed, which is huge.”
“Local small businesses no longer have to live in fear of the big green weenie of the federal government casting a mushroom-shaped shadow over their entire existence.”
“I am super stoked that under Kash Patel’s leadership the ATF has been making moves to reverse stupid rules.”
“I am very excited to see under Kash Patel’s leadership where the ATF is going to go on, and he’s gone. Yeah, Kash got fired.”
“Kash Patel was wearing two hats, where he was the acting director of the ATF while also being the confirmed director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.”
“We do have a new acting director. Ladies and gentlemen welcome stage left, Dan Driscoll the new acting director of the ATF. Once again we have another guy who is wearing two hats. He is the current US Secretary of the Army, as well as the newly appointed acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.”
“He was a combat veteran in Iraq, but aside from that, he was also a Republican candidate for congress, specifically in North Carolina’s 11th district, where he lost in the Republican primary. I get it. Aside from that his actual stance on gun policy and things like that, I really wish I had better news. I don’t know.”
“If you have some concerns, don’t worry, because I’m about to give you some weapons-grade copium.”
“I have reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland that the ATF is still gaining momentum in the right direction, because just recently the deputy director of the ATF has been fired. Shit-canned. Excommunicado. Fuckaty bye-bye. Marvin Richardson was the deputy director of the ATF, but he was also a long-standing ATF employee, having a career spanning 35 years. He was the deputy director since 2019, and was also the acting director from 2021 to 2022. Let’s go back to that 35 years at the ATF bit. Do the mental math. What happened in the last 35 years at the ATF? Yeah, Old Marvin was awarded medals for his involvement at the siege of Waco. Fucker had the burning women and children alive merit badge.”
“On top of that, he was largely toted as the father of the arm brace restrictions, as well as a whole host of other unconstitutional shit that the ATF has been pushing for the last 10 years or so, and he is fucking out of there. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Fuck you. I hope you have a hangail every day for the rest of your life.”
“This guy had bragged in the past about how much they’ve been able to do at the ATF to circumvent having to get laws passed by Congress.”
“He’s talking about how many extra rules they’re able to put on law-abiding citizens without using the legal system, circumventing Schoolhouse Rock and just putting in whatever he thinks should be the rules, not what the Constitution says has to happen. Fucker bragged about it.”
“Rest in piss, you won’t be missed.”
“Some big moves happening in the ATF. I don’t know how this is all going to shake out, but I’m liking what I’m seeing so far.”
“So the deputy director of the ATF got fired. That’s fucking great. We’ve now been informed on who the new one will be. Introducing your new deputy director Robert Robert Cekada.”
“Now I have been pretty optimistic of all of the changes over at the ATF since Trump took office. This is the first one, I’ll be honest with you, throws up a little bit of a yellow flag for me. I do not know much about this man’s views on the Second Amendment. However, I do know he’s a career ATF guy. Nothing in his resume that I’ve been able to find is particularly egregious, but being a lifelong Fed naturally makes the hair in the back of my neck stand up.”
“Is there anything obvious that means he will be bad. No. Am I worried he might be a speed bump to the dismantlement of the bullshit regulations of the ATF in the future? Absolutely. Only time will tell.”
“A lot of shit’s happening very quickly.”
So there’s your ATF update. Mostly good news, mostly things moving in the right direction.
It’s great to have a President keeping his campaign promises…
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Marvin Richardson’s head tumbled into the waiting basket below. The wind sighed through the trees, as if it had been relieved of a guilty burden. The guillotine glistened wetly.
Silence hung like a gibbetted heretic as the crowd shuffled restlessly, awaiting yet more executions…and waited yet longer.
“You’ve had your bloody spectacle, now go home,” announced the executioner.
“But wait! We were promised heads. There is only one that’s got the chop. Where are the others?”
“Ah, as to that,” the executioner explained, that refers to agency heads”.
“To what, you say”?!
“He who heads an agency, as with reference to agency head Ye Old Marvin. We promised heads and kept our promise. He heads the agency no more, therefore agency heads were lopped off.”
The crowd reflected and momentarily replied. “Yes, we see the logic of this explanation.” Then shouldering their staves and axes, they turned as one to shamble off to a nearby ale house where they congratulated themselves for hours on their success at rolling heads.
there are ATF agents who enforced this with a relish. Obama and Biden hired them for this purpose. They hired others like this during the first Trump admin. Personnel are policy. They need to go, or they will just wait for another weak or complicit ATF director. We cannot let these scum “wait it out”. It is a vanity for Bondi or Patel to think anything else will happen. Fire these agents.
The ATF should be eliminated, and with extreme prejudice. Every agent should be fired, lose their security clearance, and be barred from any government employment or employment with any federal contractor.
They have been nothing but Murder Inc. for the feds for decades. And every agent involved in any way – including just prior knowledge – in the home invasion and murder of Bryan Malinowski should be charged with capital murder.
This is all just a temporary band-aid that will be ripped off the next time the commies are in charge. The ATF needs to be permanently disbanded, and every single employee fired. Legislation is also needed to ensure that it can never be replaced in the future.
The Marxist Left has a long history of elevating their people through institutions while leaving no record of their positions or accomplishments. Then, when they are poised for a top, influential position, no one can oppose them. Later we discover the ugly truth. Think John Roberts, most of the GW Bush cabinet, and half the republicrat Senate and Congress. That’s a concern with the new guy.
“Heads will roll!”
Marvin Richardson’s head tumbled into the waiting basket below. The wind sighed through the trees, as if it had been relieved of a guilty burden. The guillotine glistened wetly.
Silence hung like a gibbetted heretic as the crowd shuffled restlessly, awaiting yet more executions…and waited yet longer.
“You’ve had your bloody spectacle, now go home,” announced the executioner.
“But wait! We were promised heads. There is only one that’s got the chop. Where are the others?”
“Ah, as to that,” the executioner explained, that refers to agency heads”.
“To what, you say”?!
“He who heads an agency, as with reference to agency head Ye Old Marvin. We promised heads and kept our promise. He heads the agency no more, therefore agency heads were lopped off.”
The crowd reflected and momentarily replied. “Yes, we see the logic of this explanation.” Then shouldering their staves and axes, they turned as one to shamble off to a nearby ale house where they congratulated themselves for hours on their success at rolling heads.
NSSF holds Robert Cekada in high regard.
[…] CHANGE: ‘Big Moves At The ATF.’ […]
there are ATF agents who enforced this with a relish. Obama and Biden hired them for this purpose. They hired others like this during the first Trump admin. Personnel are policy. They need to go, or they will just wait for another weak or complicit ATF director. We cannot let these scum “wait it out”. It is a vanity for Bondi or Patel to think anything else will happen. Fire these agents.
Not even a good start.
The ATF should be eliminated, and with extreme prejudice. Every agent should be fired, lose their security clearance, and be barred from any government employment or employment with any federal contractor.
They have been nothing but Murder Inc. for the feds for decades. And every agent involved in any way – including just prior knowledge – in the home invasion and murder of Bryan Malinowski should be charged with capital murder.
This is all just a temporary band-aid that will be ripped off the next time the commies are in charge. The ATF needs to be permanently disbanded, and every single employee fired. Legislation is also needed to ensure that it can never be replaced in the future.
The Marxist Left has a long history of elevating their people through institutions while leaving no record of their positions or accomplishments. Then, when they are poised for a top, influential position, no one can oppose them. Later we discover the ugly truth. Think John Roberts, most of the GW Bush cabinet, and half the republicrat Senate and Congress. That’s a concern with the new guy.