By: Kayleigh Hamilton
The ATF didn’t mean for this to get out to the public.
But their director admitted something terrible.
And now they are in deep trouble after this slip of the tongue.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, better known as the ATF, is the only federal agency that explicitly exists to take away a constitutional right.
Of course, many federal agencies engage in unconstitutional activities, such as the NSA and the FBI. But in the case of the ATF, it is directly a part of their mission.
For years, they have liked to pretend that this is not the case, and that they are only focused on regulating “illegal guns.”
But the problem is, the ATF believes that all guns should be illegal. They are a gun control advocacy group with law enforcement powers.
And while they may have kept this ugly fact a secret for a long time, they have been much more bold since Biden took office.
Now the director of the ATF has admitted what everyone already knew and revealed the true mission of his organization.
According to Bearing Arms, “If Joe Biden had his way, gun control activist and former ATF agent David Chipman would be in charge of the agency right now, but thanks to Chipman’s toxicity to a handful of Democrat senators like Joe Manchin and Angus King, it’s gun control fan and former U.S. Attorney Steve Dettelbach who’s running the show.”
“Dettelbach’s been on a swing through New England in recent days, and he hasn’t been shy about advocating for gun control in his public appearances. More than anything, though, Dettelbach is stumping for others to demand more restrictions on our Second Amendment rights.”
This is completely inappropriate for someone who is effectively a law enforcement officer. His job isn’t to lobby for new laws to be passed restricting people’s rights.
But of course, that’s what the ATF really believes in. Dettelbach is just admitting it in a way that others haven’t.
The MSN article linked to by Bearing Arms reports that Dettelbach said: “Each one of these shootings is a tragedy that takes lives and changes other lives forever. And that’s whether it makes the news or not, whether it’s the suicide of a child or a drive by in the city, whether it’s a massacre at a parade, a spray bullets on a subway, whether it’s a man who kills his family, murders police.”
“I submit to you that it is our patriotic duty as Americans to respond, to think of these people, to have their backs, to view this tough news as a call to action.”
Dettelbach clearly views himself no differently than the head of the Brady Campaign or Bloomberg’s Everytown gun control group.
He isn’t a public servant, he is a political activist, and he is using government powers to enforce his activism.
The ATF is finally admitting to the public what they really are, and what their true mission is: to get rid of the Second Amendment.