Of Course: Gun Control Group, Bureaucrats Rally to Support ATF
If Giffords wants to defend the ATF, it should explain why the agency deserves to exist after a half-century of failure, abuse, and constitutional violations.
If Giffords wants to defend the ATF, it should explain why the agency deserves to exist after a half-century of failure, abuse, and constitutional violations.
While Trump has taken bold steps to restore Second Amendment freedoms in his second term — including firing anti-gun ATF Director Dettelbach, appointing Kash Patel as Acting ATF Director — endorsing Cornyn would undermine all of that.
Under Trump’s executive order, AG Bondi and ATF Acting Director Patel are now expected to vacate all Biden-era ATF rules and release a full report on the damage done by Biden’s gun control agenda. Gun owners didn’t elect President Trump to tinker around the edges of federal gun control. They elected him to dismantle it.
The truth is that ATF has never been about stopping crime, it’s been about harassing gun owners, revoking FFLs, and expanding gun control. If politicians were serious about public safety, they’d be prosecuting criminals, not disarming law-abiding Americans.
Despite recent pushback against ATF, gun owners remember how Cornyn backed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act giving ATF new authority to crack down on gun sellers and pave the way for backdoor universal background checks.
With the stakes higher than ever, all eyes are now on the Texas legislature to see if it will stand for self-defense rights or allow gun owners who are cleared of criminal charges to be punished in civil court for staying alive.
Gun owners expect nothing less than a comprehensive recommendation to repeal all of Biden’s unconstitutional gun control. Anything less would be seen as a betrayal of the promises made by President Trump.
Unlike the bureaucrats and anti-gun zealots who have traditionally run the agency, Dan O’Kelly actually understands firearms, their mechanics, and their place in American history.