National Unable to Ban Guns, Lawmakers Want to Weaponize the ATF Against Gun Dealers

[Joe Link]

Unable to Ban Guns, Lawmakers Want to Weaponize the ATF Against Gun Dealers

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[E4mafia]

Representatives Ted Deutch (D – Fla), Jim Langevin (D – R.I.), and Gwen Moore (D – Wis.) Remember these names, voters.

"The [licensed gun dealers] who willfully violate the laws and regulations preventing ATF from accomplishing its mission to protect the public are few," the Bureau says on its website. The ATF emphasizes that, as the law requires, it acts "where willfulness is demonstrated" in violations of the law. The law requires willfulness so that enforcement doesn't become a game of whack-a-mole over inadvertent paperwork violations and regulatory missteps—something that gun owners and dealers claimed in the past was precisely the case. Before the 1986 legal change allowing gun licenses to be revoked only when regulations are "willfully" violated, the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution found that "[a]pproximately 75% of BATF gun prosecutions were aimed at ordinary citizens who had neither criminal intent nor knowledge, but were enticed by agents into unknowing technical violations."

"Specifically, the Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act would:

• Authorize increased ATF inspections of gun dealers to ensure compliance standards are met.
• Strengthen penalties for falsifying gun sales records, including longer prison sentences for violators.
• Add new types of civil sanctions for gun dealers who violate ATF regulations.
• Permit ATF discretion in issuing gun licenses.
• Allow ATF to require dealers to conduct physical inventories if more than ten crime guns are traced back to them."
• Kill your doggo

 

[mrblond]

how about a new law that will punish prosecutors who do not prosecute firearm violations.

 

[NW Backpacker]

how about a new law that will punish prosecutors who do not prosecute firearm violations.

I might go for that IF we also pass a law stating that prosecutors may not prosecute firearms violations that are insignificant, or due to new, obscure, or idiotic laws when the person is otherwise a law-abiding citizen and had no intent to violate the law. There are 10s of thousands, perhaps 100s of thousands of gun laws - it is impossible to know all of them.

Deal, or no deal? I wish that show was still on free TV.

 

[cigars]

how about a new law that will punish prosecutors who do not prosecute firearm violations.

How about a law that will make prosecutors punish bad guys? And then another law to stop bad people from doing bad things.