Lawmakers Want To Weaponize The ATF Against Gun Dealers

BY HERSCHEL SMITH
2 days, 15 hours ago
J.D. Tuccille at Reason:

As of today, the entry for the bill, formally H.R. 6075, is a placeholder lacking details. But, in a press release, Deutch’s office says:

“Specifically, the Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act would:

Authorize increased ATF inspections of gun dealers to ensure compliance standards are met.
Strengthen penalties for falsifying gun sales records, including longer prison sentences for violators.
Add new types of civil sanctions for gun dealers who violate ATF regulations.
Permit ATF discretion in issuing gun licenses.
Allow ATF to require dealers to conduct physical inventories if more than ten crime guns are traced back to them.”
We know where this is coming from. It’s yet another front in the war on gun owners. This time the battle happens to occur within the purview of the regulatory bodies the legislature has set up to harass honest, peaceable, hard working men and women who want and need to be left alone.

But after all, the peasants must be disarmed and un-empowered in order to maintain elitist power in the hands of the right circles. You aren’t in that circle.

And remember that the founders saw something quite like this when they objected that “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”

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