Gun control groups take aim at ATF staffer who penned pro-gun paper

By Chris Eger

A gun control organization backed by former New York Mayor Micheal Bloomberg is calling for the job of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employee who authored a paper seen as favorable to gun rights.
Everytown, based on information released by the Brady Campaign this week, said that Ronald B. Turk, ATF’s associate deputy director and chief operating officer, should step down because he communicated with a firearms industry lobbyist before compiling his 11-page “white paper” advocating relaxed gun policies.
“The ATF official who wrote this memo should resign, and the administration should be ashamed for doing the gun lobby’s bidding to weaken America’s gun laws,” said Kate Folmar, communications director for Everytown.
The Brady’s information, garnered after a federal lawsuit over unfilled Freedom of Information Act requests, shows communication between lobbyist Mark Barnes, and Turk. Barnes, a facet of Congressional lobbying going back more than a decade, has been registered to represent various gun rights groups to include the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and National Rifle Association (in 2014 only), as well as several gun manufacturers, importers, collectors groups, and a gun show organization.
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Source: Guns.com