Congressman Introduces Bill To Eliminate ATF

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Congressman Introduces Bill To Eliminate ATF
National Shooting Sports Foundation
National Shooting Sports Foundation

NEWTOWN, Conn –-(Ammoland.com)- U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) last week introduced legislation to eliminate the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and reassign its responsibilities to the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Treasury Department.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation ( NSSF ) opposes this proposal, which has one co-sponsor and is not likely to gain any traction in the current session. Read a news story.

About NSSF The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 6,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations and publishers. For more information, log on to www.nssf.org.

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Eric

Like any of of the other alphabet soup agencies would want to be tainted with former ATF .

BambiB

Why would the NSSF oppose a proposal to eliminate the outfit that insisted on an “Operation Hollywood” raid (to drum up more funds from Congress) on Americans in Waco (when Koresh had actually offered to show agents his operation), ran point for the smuggling of 2000+ “assault weapons” to Mexican drug cartels, bungled sting operations (allowing their store front to be ripped off, including the loss of a machine gun), lost records on countless Class 3 firearms, harassed gun shop owners over whether customers wrote “Y” and “N” on their 4473 form instead of “Yes” and “No”, lost countless guns,… Read more »

TEX

What would that accomplish ? Reassign it to the fbi,dea,and treasury ? Hell,eliminate all of them too,with poss. exception of the treasury,…maybe ! That just sounds like 3 times the bullshit we will go thru !