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ATF Reverses ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement Policy That Shut Down Hundreds of FFLs Nationwide
Part of the Biden administration’s years-long war on guns, gun owners, and those who make and sell them has been the “zero tolerance” approach ATF inspectors adopted when doing their regular audits of…
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Part of the Biden administration’s years-long war on guns, gun owners, and those who make and sell them has been the “zero tolerance” approach ATF inspectors adopted when doing their regular audits of gun store transactions. Before Biden, good faith mistakes such as writing the name of the county in the city box on a 4473 form, were noted by ATF agents. Only serious or repeated errors that were judged as willful were treated as violations of federal law that put an FFL’s license at risk.
Once Biden;s stormtroopers were issued new zero tolerance marching orders early in his administration, however, if a buyer mistakenly entered “USA” in the “county” box on the 4473 and it wasn’t caught by the retailer, that could and frequently was deemed sufficient reason to yank a gun seller’s license. This happened to hundreds of FFLs.
It’s that kind of bureaucratic lunacy that prompted Austin, Texas gun retailer Michael Cargill to sue ATF challenging the agency’s enforcement guidelines. The suit was filed with the help of the Texas Public Policy Foundation and America First Legal. Today we learn that ATF has backed down and has issued new guidance to its field agents withdrawing the zero tolerance standard.
Trump effect!
Anyone want to bet that had Harris won the election, the BATFE would not have backed down on this?
This just shows the ATF is just a political agency, that goes with the way the wind blows.
