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Has the time come to abolish ATF?
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"Today’s New York Times carries an Op-Ed about the unfolding controversy involving the [ATF's] attempt to ban the M855 cartridge for modern sport-utility rifles that now has the conspiracy theorists having fits because an exemption for the round was deleted in the latest regulations manual."
"The ATF has issued a press release calling it a 'publishing error' that has 'no legal impact on the validity of the exemptions.' The agency says the regulations guide will be corrected in PDF format, but that may not satisfy a growing number of angry gun owners, many of whom think it is time for the agency to go." ... |
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laker1
(3/9/2015)
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Millwright66
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Considering its history - not the "A" part - but the
T" and F" parts added later, to preserve an armed tax collection agency under federal control theres little reason for it to exist. Not only does it duplicate many legitimate functions of government/industry already extant, but its performance in those areas is inferior, capricious and often arbitrary. Its latest, ( the "green tip ban) is just another in a long, long litany. |
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