Posted January 16, 2017 5:16 pm by Comments

By James England

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Remember when the ATF was linked to hundreds of missing firearms placed into the hands of Mexican cartels? We do. It wasn’t long ago that news broke about the ATF’s gun smuggling operations to drug cartels linked with countless extrajudicial murders, killings, and kidnappings across North America.

Fun Fact: one of the guns seized at a “El Chapo” Guzman hideout was linked to the inventory of firearms released by the ATF in Operation Fast and Furious.

But the ATF still has the authority to walk into any Federal Firearm License holder’s store or home and seize any firearms.

You still have to wait anywhere between two and eleven months to pick up the suppressor after you paid a $200 tax stamp to the ATF.

I was naturally wary of any sort of rhetoric spewed on the campaign trail. When Donald Trump said he would “drain the swamps”, I really didn’t know what that would actually mean. Entrenched politics and federal spending ARE out of control. But where do you start cutting the strings?

As it turns out, one place is none other than the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. The BATF has been the boogeyman in the firearms community …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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