And it begins: Biden’s “budget request”
targets the firearms industry, tucks away
direct attack on Second Amendment
Law Enforcement Today,
by
Larry Keane
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
4/5/2022 12:38:06 PM
President Joe Biden is shifting blame for his party’s unwillingness to tackle spiraling crime straight to the firearm industry.
His administration released his Presidential budget request, which outlines his priorities for the coming year. At the top of the list are plans to target the firearm industry for the failures of his administration to support law enforcement.
President Biden proposes to spend $20.6 billion for the Justice Department for federal law enforcement, crime prevention and intervention. Tucked into that spending proposal includes plans for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to hire 140 special agents and another 160 Industry Operations Inspectors (IOIs).
Politics Over Policing
This shows the Biden administration
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/5/2022 12:55:42 PM (No. 1120076)
Biden has a vested interest in protecting criminals. Of course he wants to destroy law-abiding citizens.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 4/5/2022 1:09:32 PM (No. 1120090)
A young friend at work ran a side business doing photo printing and restoration work, and was a computer guy, not into guns. So, one day when the topic of ATF came up, I was surprised to hear him say, "Oh, THOSE crazy, out of control cowboys!?"
I asked why he said that, and letting him know I agreed, but wondered how he came to that view. It turns out that his business partner, who I had never met, had worked for a bit more than a year as an ATF agent, and quit in disgust at the "out of control, dangerous, crazy cowboy attitude" that he saw as the norm in ATF agents. The inside scoop.
And when a senior DoJ LEO said when the Treasury Dept, interested in divesting themselves of these "out of control, dangerous" folks suggested that perhaps ATF could move over to DoJ, "You know what you get when you mix dirty water with clean water? Dirty water."
Of course, now DoJ is "dirty water" themselves, just like ATF.
More ATF is a bad thing, ALWAYS.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/5/2022 1:21:40 PM (No. 1120109)
The "deinstitutionalization of psychiatric patients in the 1950s and ’60s" led to the closure of state psychiatric hospitals, which contributed mightily to the encampments now allowed in poorly governed cities. The author Larry Keane makes a good case for reopening long shuttered facilities and clearing off city sidewalks and parking lots. Enough already.
The mass shooting that engendered Biden's ignorant (and thoroughly predictable) anti-gun squawk occurred in a state with arguably the most restrictive gun laws of all. I've become convinced that the purpose of gun laws is to make criminals out of law abiding citizens, and to disarm the population so the government will have no impediments to exercising totalitarian power over its dispensable, replaceable citizens.
This fall the Democrats will cheat exactly to the degree that they are allowed to. Mail in ballots are illegal in Canada because of the potential for fraud by accepting other than in person votes, with necessary identification required to vote. If--and it's a big if--the Republicans can keep from getting cheated again, the BATFE should be the first agency to face the guillotine. Repeal the NFA as well. Lock up criminals, stop trying to disarm law abiding people. Solving crime isn't a head scratcher. Violent criminals need to go away. When enough of them do, America will be a safer place to live.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/5/2022 1:24:14 PM (No. 1120115)
“Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms” should be a retail establishment, not a government agency. Any politician who does not understand that should be forced out of office.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 4/5/2022 1:25:09 PM (No. 1120118)
There are way over 330 million people in the US. Figure each one has a gun. Then figure some have more than one. Add to that a lot have way more than one gun. Do you honestly think they will just give them up?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/5/2022 1:28:23 PM (No. 1120122)
You'd be surprised at we have "tucked away," Demento.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/5/2022 2:21:34 PM (No. 1120188)
Can't overrun a country with 200 million people owning, maybe, 400 million guns. At least not without a nuke.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/5/2022 2:41:35 PM (No. 1120212)
Some of my , um, hunting guns were purchased before the gubmint made you register them. Seriously, officer.........
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/5/2022 2:54:34 PM (No. 1120229)
I have no firearms. I’m not terribly concerned, My deceased military brother told me, one time, that in case of war, guns will be easy to get. I see his point, in regards to Ukraine. I imagine quite a few civilians collected.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 4/5/2022 2:55:46 PM (No. 1120230)
Here's how ridiculous ATF is: Years ago, when three of us owned a gunshop, we put a deposit on a bigger building to put in a shooting range where people could fire actual machine guns and had the travel people in San Francisco guaranteeing us they would keep us open 24/7 with Asian tourists gagging to shoot machine guns and have their pictures taken with a Tommy gun but ATF stepped in and ruled that the act of a Federal Class III licensee handing a fully-automatic weapon to a non-licensed customer standing right beside him constituted a violation of the NFA Act of 1934, in that it was the illegal transfer of a fully-automatic weapon, at which point we lost our deposit and stopped shopping for Lamborghinis.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/5/2022 3:29:18 PM (No. 1120260)
Re #10: My local indoor shooting range rents many different firearms, including modern pistols for police and civilian self defenders who are investigating what gun to buy next, so they rent them for an hour to learn how they run.
For maximum fun on the range, though, you must rent a machine gun. Last I saw there were maybe six for rent at the range. The one I liked best was the Thompson Submachine gun, M1928A1 in .45 ACP aka Tommy Gun, Chicago Typewriter, or Trench Broom. I haven't rented it myself, but have been shooting next to various people who have shot it (with an expert trainer at their side). They looked like they were having a ball rat-a-tat-tatting. Speaking of machine guns, the old ones (pre-1986) are available to a few enthusiasts, at great cost. In magazine listings I've seen a couple of heavily used M1928 or M1921 Tommy guns for sale. About 1.7 million Tommy guns were produced, and they're all used, probably in battle. Current price? $35,000 up, mainly up. How badly do you want it? Can you pass the most stringent security check? Then maybe a Tommy gun is for you.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Birddog 4/5/2022 3:32:14 PM (No. 1120262)
If ya want "Less Bang" for the federal "Buck"...hire three hundred prosecutors instead and file federal Gun Charges on EVERY arrested perp that has violated ANY federal laws...5 year minimum sentences apply.
Number of shooters on the loose will DROP.
No more of these repeat offenders with half a dozen or more prior gun charges free on the streets because local prosecutors WON'T prosecute, and local judges won't incarcerate....or even require Bail..
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