Williams: The ATF Has Outlived Its Usefulness

By Lee Williams

In keeping with an exclusive story published by AmmoLand News, the ATF is about to pressure tens of millions of gun house owners to register their pistol braces as short-barreled rifles, which can then be regulated by the Nationwide Firearms Act.

To be clear, that is precisely the kind of jack-booted thuggery we’ve come to anticipate from a morally bankrupt federal company, which has outlived its usefulness.

In keeping with the Ammoland story, the ATF calls their monumentally silly thought an “amnesty,” as a result of they gained’t cost the traditional $200 payment for an NFA tax stamp.

Wow. How magnanimous.

In fact, ATF’s new rule negates and invalidates all of their earlier opinion letters, which advised us it was completely fantastic and absolutely legal to put in a pistol brace on our weapons.

In different phrases, they advised us we wouldn’t have to fret about politically motivated enforcement actions like this if we purchased a brace, and an estimated 4 million folks did.

Then, after Joe Biden declared war on guns, the ATF modified its thoughts, bent over, and 4 million law-abiding of us are about to pay a steep worth.

What does this should do with decreasing the skyrocketing violent crime charges plaguing Democrat-run cities throughout the nation? Completely nothing. That is simply one other method for the Biden-Harris administration to screw over authorized gun house owners.

In truth, this gained’t impression criminals in any respect. It gained’t even gradual them down. Do you suppose Joe or Kamala really consider criminals will register their braced pistols? In fact they gained’t.

As soon as Biden shuffles off into historical past, I hope his alternative takes a tough take a look at the utility of the ATF, as a result of I definitely don’t see any. They’ve but to concentrate on getting weapons out of the arms of criminals, as a result of they’re solely targeted on persecuting the regulation abiding.

This plan may flip tens of millions of gun house owners into felons in a single day. There’s a phrase for a regulation or rule that immediately criminalizes the regulation abiding: tyranny. And tyranny is what we’ve come to anticipate from the ATF.

Lee Williams publishes at The Gun Writer. This put up initially appeared there and is reprinted right here with permission.