Via Chuck Petras @Chuck_Petras and Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan.
The House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary is asking the ATF about their plans to make it legally dangerous to engage in private sales of firearms:
To advance the Committee’s oversight of ATF and to better understand ATF’s basis for
issuing the proposed rule, we request that you provide the following information:
- Please explain When ATF first began to conceive of the need to regulate the lawful private sale of firearms through an agency notice.
- Please identify the offices and individuals within ATF that conceived, drafted, reviewed, and approved the September S, 2023, notice in the Federal Register entitled, “Definition of “Engaged in the Business” as a Dealer in Firearms.”
- Please provide all communications between the Executive Office of the President and ATF regarding the September 8, 2023, notice.
- Please explain whether the Justice Department reviewed and approved ATF’s September 8, 2023, notice, including the entities involved in the review and the timing of the review.
- Please explain whether the Office of Management and Budget reviewed and approved ATF’s September 8, 2023, notice, including the entities involved in the review and the timing of the review;
- Please explain how ATF plans on enforcing the final rule that will come from the September 8, 2023, notice;
- Please produce all documents and communications in your possession between ATF and any organizations ATF consulted, collaborated, and discussed the September 8, 2023, notice with.
We ask that you provide this information as soon as possible but no later than 5 p.m.
on March 14, 2024.
When the ATF ignores them I hope they have the will to slap the ATF silly, then cut their budget by a third or half.
Prosecution would be preferred, but, at most, this will be the gathering of evidence for the trials.
Original document:
Given the language of the Second Amendent, BATFE should have always been the small BAT subsidiary department within Treasury. (Taxation of alcohol and tobacco products, but regulation of explosives, seems more like a direct DOJ responsibility rather than Treasury’s, and despite the axes-vs-stills “Revenoor” thing in the twenties and thirties, tax accountants don’t need to be armed with anything larger than a clipboard and calculator.)
As the Zen master said. We’ll see. The communist machine has a lockdown on DC.
I just wished they would turn off the money spicket first. Then let ATF come begging to give congress whatever they want.
Till they are willing and able to do that? I don’t expect much outside the courts to happen.
The House committee will ask a bunch of pointless questions. The criminals running BATFEces will do whatever the f**k they want. Congress will…once again… IGNORE their crimes and NOBODY will suffer at all. Except for the citizens. In other words, business as usual.