ATF's director says the quiet part out loud
and refers to inalienable rights as a 'privilege'
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By Olivia Murray. Aug 20, 2023
What a bizarre development in American politics that has seen the federal government cultivate and embrace a fiery disdain for the very ideals upon which itself was founded.
An item published at The Western Journal yesterday reported that the ATF is intensifying its war against the pro-gun portion of the body politic; from the article:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is escalating efforts to strip gun dealers of their federal firearms licenses.
The licenses, which enable businesses to sell firearms for profit, are being revoked in increasing numbers….
The ATF has yanked 122 federal firearms licenses, or FFL's [sic], from dealers this fiscal year alone.
That's up from 90 in all of fiscal year 2022, and merely 27 in fiscal year 2021.
In June of 2021, Department of Injustice's Merrick Garland announced a new "Gun Crime Prevention Strategy" which in part, focused on compliance inspections of FFL businesses.
Some of the offenses which would result in "notice of [license] revocation" included:
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