I guess I should expect this from Bloomberg:

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Bloomberg View: On Capitol Hill, More Gun Control Cowardice

Bloomberg View: On Capitol Hill, More Gun Control Cowardice - Businessweek


Deen
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"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one and don't have it, you'll probably never need one again!"

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[Siglvr]

The more hits that they get, the more money. By only putting on the link, you are forcing us to support Bloomberg if we want to read it.


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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a new administrator. The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is finally official, as is the secretary of the Department of Labor. The president of the all-important Export-Import Bank is safely enjoying his second term.

Notably absent from this list of presidential appointees is a new director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Need we expend much energy wondering why?

Since 2006, Congress has required that the director of the ATF be confirmed by the Senate—even though the director's boss, the attorney general, already requires Senate confirmation. Seven years later, no one has ever been confirmed as ATF director. President George W. Bush's nominee, ATF Acting Director Michael Sullivan, was deemed "overly zealous" by the National Rifle Association. In 2010, President Obama nominated veteran ATF agent Andrew Traver to be the agency's director. The NRA denounced his "anti-gun activities." His nomination, too, went nowhere.

Obama waited until his second term—and after the massacre in December 2012 in Newtown, Conn.—before proposing U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones as ATF director. It is Jones's nomination that is now stalled in the Senate.

The ATF is responsible for conducting regulatory inspections of the nation's more than 123,000 licensed gun dealers. A Department of Justice report released in April found that the agency is so hindered by congressionally imposed obstacles and "insufficient investigator resources" that it can't adequately perform its duties. In addition to preventing the ATF from keeping computerized records of gun transactions, Congress passed legislation prohibiting the agency from inspecting a licensed gun dealer more than once a year. Because the ATF has only 2,500 agents to police guns, tobacco, alcohol, and explosives, the majority of gun dealers received no inspection at all from the understaffed agency during a five-year period.

From 2004 to 2011 the nation's gun shops lost 174,679 guns through theft or loss. (That's the official number; actual losses are undoubtedly much higher.) It's unknown how many of these ended up in the possession of criminals. Even when the ATF concludes that a gun dealer is not complying with the law, it can take years to revoke a license. The practical consequence is that rogue gun dealers can supply criminals for years without worrying about official disruptions to their business.

Stein's Law, attributed to economist Herbert Stein, stipulates that if something can't go on forever, it won't. So it is with gun policy. Congress can't enable the recklessness and greed of the gun lobby in perpetuity. At some point, it will stop. The question is how long it will take, and in what form.

Maybe the first modest step can be confirming the director of the ATF.

 

[wjv]

Maybe they should actually nominate someone who ISN'T anti second amendment, but just wants to run the ATF and go after real criminals! The ATF has lost a lot of respect over the past decade or so, mostly do to stupid anti-gun stunts. . .

 

[U201491]

Maybe they should actually nominate someone who ISN'T anti second amendment, but just wants to run the ATF and go after real criminals! The ATF has list a lot of respect over the past decade or so, mostly do to stupid anti-gun stunts. . .

They never had any respect !

 

[mancat]

The more hits that they get, the more money. By only putting on the link, you are forcing us to support Bloomberg if we want to read it.


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Only if you see or click on their ads. Otherwise, bandwidth just costs them money.

Run Adblock Plus on your preferred web browser, and never give Bloomberg or any other MSM outlet the money that they would otherwise get for unique advertising views/clicks.

 

[Burt Gummer]

Bloomberg lost the ruling on stop and frisk. A victory for the Constitution and personal freedoms. The little Nazi whined about it at length of course.

Good luck on your appeal jerk off! Yes, someday your wet dream will come true and the American people will have no rights under Martial Law. But that day is not here yet, so F off.

 

[MikeSettles]

This link is to a 1982 study by the Senate Constitution Committee, chaired by Orin Hatch. The back and forth about the "individual right" is extensive, with various scholarly arguments also about the "Militia."

Pointedly, the committee found that the ATF had, since taking on the responsibility for firearms regulation in 1934, abused its powers against dealers and collectors, had rarely gone after real criminals, and the committee wished to correct this. Apparently, nothing ended up being done.

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[deen_ad]

Only if you see or click on their ads. Otherwise, bandwidth just costs them money.

Run Adblock Plus on your preferred web browser, and never give Bloomberg or any other MSM outlet the money that they would otherwise get for unique advertising views/clicks.

But Bloomy is using NY city or state servers to run his anti gun sites from in violation of the laws against using public funds for private use.


Deen
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"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one and don't have it, you'll probably never need one again!"

 

[Burt Gummer]

He really was DIGGING on this one. A comment from a criminal being wiretapped used to support his BS.

NYC announces largest gun bust in city history

 

[Stomper]

Bloomberg lost the ruling on stop and frisk. A victory for the Constitution and personal freedoms. The little Nazi whined about it at length of course.

Good luck on your appeal jerk off! Yes, someday your wet dream will come true and the American people will have no rights under Martial Law. But that day is not here yet, so F off.

BURT!

My, my... What an uncharacteristic, utterly UN-RESIGNED to the "inevitable" post from you!


Me likey!

 

[deen_ad]

He really was DIGGING on this one. A comment from a criminal being wiretapped used to support his BS.

NYC announces largest gun bust in city history

And "Stop & Frisk" didn't even enter into the investigation or bust. The criminals said they couldn't take them home because of it.