Opinion
In a recent SAF Video update, Bill Sack, Director of Legal Operations at the Second Amendment Foundation, highlighted what he perceives as a discrepancy between the Biden administration’s rhetoric on gun control and the actual data regarding illegal gun trafficking.
Sack referenced a report from the ATF’s National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment which reviewed over 9,700 ATF firearms trafficking investigations conducted between 2017 and 2021. The report revealed that licensed firearm dealers (FFLs) were responsible for only 1.6% of the illegal trafficking cases, amounting to 136 cases.
Despite these findings, the Biden administration has implemented a strict “Zero Tolerance” policy directed by President Biden himself, leading to the revocation of FFL licenses for minor clerical errors without evidence of intentional wrongdoing.
Sack argues that this aggressive approach disproportionately impacts legitimate, constitutionally protected businesses, with the ATF suspecting only around 0.1% of FFLs may have been involved in illegal activities.
The Second Amendment Foundation, as explained by Sack, is actively working to counteract what they see as overreaching gun control measures through litigation and education. Sack encourages supporters to stay informed about ongoing legal cases and the foundation’s efforts by following their updates on social media and their website.
Second Amendment Foundation
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 720,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
It’s time we the people ban together and have a zero tolerance policy for the ATF .
This is the kind of insanity that proves to people that think “Our” government would never do bad things to us! It’s only the Russians or Chinese that do bad things to their people. We wear a halo and are so righteous. There will ALWAYS be psychopaths that will fill the shoes of the enforcement class willing to cage you or kill you if you don’t comply.
What the ATF should be MORE concerned about is the Constitutional ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY on government INFRINGEMENT and TYRANNY. Apparently they have volunteered to learn the hard way.
I have said it before. Government should be held to the same standards as the plebes/surfs and peasants. If they make one error inputting data on a form, the person should be fired. If they make one mistake making an arrest, they should be fired. All of the people that did the raid on the gentleman that was murdered recently that worked at an airport in an ATF early morning raid should be fired, the boss that approved it and the person that is in charge of the agency should be fired. When I worked for the government, if one… Read more »
FK the ATF. I was a cop for 30 years and I am ready to stand up against these tyrannical Nazi’s.
And yet —
https://www.ammoland.com/2024/04/atf-gun-trafficking-report-accidentally-concludes-gun-shops-are-not-the-problem/#axzz8XZlWi55M
Of course the FBATFE is harassing and abusing power it claims to have. We don’t need BGC’s, we didn’t have them a few decades back (and life was just fine), and we don’t need licenses to sell… what we do need is to abolish the unconstitutional BATFE and every gun law. The gov is specifically prohibited in the strongest terms from restricting, limiting, regulating or policing firearm ownership, use, possession, sales, selection, type, etc. The country went over a hundred years before Congress violated our 2nd amendment protected rights with nfa. Repeal and abolish.