The ATF Threatened the Safety of the Public in a Sick Way That Will Disturb You

By: Kayleigh Hamilton

The ATF could be on the verge of seriously endangering the public.

They are putting people in real and immediate danger.

And one report exposed the full extent of what the ATF is doing.

Ever since the agency was formed, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has only known one tactic – cracking down on the public.

They have shown a reckless disregard for the safety of Americans, as they most famously demonstrated during the tragic Waco raid of the Branch Davidian compound in 1993.

Their one mission is to attack and harass gun owners, and whatever the collateral damage is, they do not seem to care.

Now, the ATF is once again endangering public safety for ordinary Americans, and the full extent of their recklessness was exposed in a report by The Truth About Guns.

They are naming people to their “elite tactical group” who have minimal experience and cannot be trusted in dangerous and tense situations.

Those people are being sent to perform high-risk operations, and they are being given minimal training on how to conduct themselves during these operations.

Here is what The Truth About Guns had to say: “United States Secret Service Counter Assault Team (CAT) members undergo a two-week selection course and then a seven-week basic training program. Secret Service snipers must pass a one-week selection process and then a 10-week sniper training course. Candidates for Border Patrol’s Tactical Unit (BORTAC) undergo a three-week selection course and then a six-week training course before being assigned to a sector team. After a year, they can apply to join BORTAC’s elite national team.”

“By comparison, training for ATF’s Special Response Teams takes only two weeks, and ATF agents call themselves ‘operators’ after they’ve completed the course.”

These are supposed to be the ATF’s most “elite” agents, but they are utterly unprepared for the jobs they are being assigned to do – and therefore they are putting the public in danger.

The article continues, “ATF refers to its SRT teams as ‘elite tactical groups.’ According to a September 2020 report from the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) titled ‘Federal Tactical Teams: Characteristics, Training, Deployments, and Inventory,’ ATF’s Special Response Team was created in 1989 and has 114 members. From 2015 to 2019, the SRT was deployed 886 times. More than 85% of the deployments were to execute arrest and/or search warrants.”

The people on these teams should have extended and intense training to learn how to properly conduct these operations. They should not be inexperienced rookies.

But that is exactly who the ATF is assigning to do some of their most dangerous work.

Some have speculated that this played a role in the death of Bryan Malinowski in Arkansas recently at the hands of one of these ATF “elite” teams.

While no one will ever know for sure if that’s the case, the ATF urgently needs to start assigning real professionals to perform these dangerous jobs, not people with no experience and no clue what they are doing.