By: Anthony Morelli
This was the most humiliating moment of the ATF director’s life.
One congressman exposed him as a fraud in front of the entire world.
And this caused the ATF director to have a breakdown in front of everybody.
When Joe Biden appointed Steve Dettelbach as the director of the ATF, he did so not because of any expertise Dettelbach has about guns, but because of his history as a progressive activist.
The truth is, Dettelbach knows almost nothing about guns. This became clear when, on national television, he couldn’t identify the difference between a clip and magazine.
It got even worse in a congressional hearing recently. Congressman Chip Roy was grilling Dettelbach about the Biden administration’s new background check rule.
It is very important for Dettelbach to understand the details and nuances of this rule, since he is quite literally the main person responsible for enforcing it.
But Dettelbach absolutely flubbed the hearing and couldn’t answer even Roy’s most basic questions, and proved in the process that he is completely unfit for the powerful position that he holds in the federal government.
According to the Daily Caller, “Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steve Dettelbach was unable to answer questions about a background check rule enacted by the Biden administration during a Thursday hearing.”
“Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas pressed Dettelbach about the rule during a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee titled ‘Oversight of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.’ Roy asked Dettelbach questions regarding the rule announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland on April 10, asking the ATF director how many firearms would need to be sold before someone would be required to get a Federal Firearms License (FFL).”
Roy and Dettelbach then had a back and forth where Dettelbach could not give a specific answer to the incredibly basic and fundamental question of how many firearms someone would have to sell without a license before the government labels them a felon.
Roy got frustrated and went on to say: “Do you understand why the average citizen sitting out there, saying ‘I’ve got four hundred pages of rulemaking might not understand what they are allowed to do under the law when the director of the ATF can’t look at a member of Congress and tell me yes or no emphatically whether or not if I sell a weapon or two weapons or three weapons or five, whether or not I need a license?”
Dettelbach’s whiff at this easy question from Chip Roy should give some insight into how little he truly knows about guns and gun laws.
He is nothing more than a functionary carrying out what Biden and his handlers are telling him to do.
Dettelbach can’t even answer the most foundational questions about the laws that he is being asked to enforce through his agency.
The fact that Joe Biden couldn’t even be bothered to appoint someone with knowledge of guns to this position shows how much contempt he has for the gun owning community.