ATF director using 18th Century tech to salvage agency’s shattered reputation

By Lee Williams

by Lee WilliamsThe ATF has beclowned itself yet again.Last month, when the agency sent Special Agents Larry, Moe and Shemp to the home of a law-abiding Delaware gun owner, without a search warrant, with orders to inspect his guns without letting constitutional rights get in their way, they should have been prepared for some blowback.We certainly were when we broke the story. However, no one could have predicted the magnitude of the boom, because the entire “voluntary interview” as ATF later called it, was captured on video.Now, the whole country is talking about ATF’s surprise raid, what it says about the agency and the constitutional violations that were aplenty. Once again, ATF has become a laughingstock — the butt of a hundred jokes. Once again, the agency has resecured its position as the pariah of federal law enforcement.The post-raid chatter got so loud, ATF’s newly minted director, Steve Dettelbach, had to try to salvage at least a small piece of his new agency’s tarnished reputation. After all, he started on the very day los tres idiotas were begging and pleading for just a peek at a serial number or two.Dettelbach had to reassure Joe, Kamala, Gabby and the others who

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