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 |  Subject: ATF Maggots: We Demand a 100% Registry  Thu Aug 04, 2016 2:50 am | |
| In a little-watched Sunday political infomercial announcing a rare openly-partisan line from a putative law enforcement agency, ATF Deputy Director Thomas Brandon told CBS News correspondent Richard Schlesinger that the agency demands more gun control laws, especially a confiscation-enabling gun registry.
The point of the show seemed to be that Brandon and the ATF, like Schlesinger and CBS, are campaigning for gun control and for pro-gun-control politicians this election year.
“We’re a small agency with a big job,” Brandon tells correspondent Richard Schlesinger, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, July 31.
Brandon also says his agency is hampered by not having the necessary technology. Congress has imposed constraints on ATF, such as prohibiting the agency from creating a computerized database of gun purchases.
Yet, Brandon says, not having the database hurts. Indeed, after the San Bernardino shootings, it took 12 hours to find out who owned the guns used in the attack. He says a computer database would have helped, and adds that not having one simply doesn’t make sense.
“There’s a lot of things that don’t make sense in this town, you know?” Brandon tells Schlesinger. “And, so, yeah, would it be efficient and effective? Absolutely. Would the taxpayers benefit with public safety? Absolutely. Are we allowed to do it? No.”
Brandon complained that it took the ATF 12 hours to track the weapons used by the San Bernardino shooter (who was, at the time, dead); time that wouldn’t be “wasted” when they could have been door-kicking and gun-grabbing right away. But they’re lacking the vital and necessary roster of The Usual Suspects.
Given their history — and Brandon’s in particular — do you think they will be focusing their list management and raiding practices on the Islamic terrorists that they haven’t ever pursued once, yet?
Yeah, us neither.
Brandon schooled Schlesinger on the ATF’s new euphemisms: the reporter shouldn’t say that ATF wants to take firearms away from people, just say they want to “regulate dangerous weapons that can be misused.”
Thousands of Mexican criminals, of course, have (and misuse!) dangerous weapons provided by ATF with Brandon’s knowledge and support, and hundreds of lives have been taken by them, including other Federal agents. No ATF employee was ever investigated, except for the whistleblowers who revealed the “gunwalking” programs. Brandon’s answer? More power to the lawless agents that produced these homicides.
Some criminal in the upper midwest is still running around with the selective-fire M4 that an ATF agent left in his G-ride while doing the horizontal bop with another ATF agent, unbeknownst to either’s spouse. No ATF employee was ever investigated on that case, either. Brandon’s answer? More power to the lawless agents that released that firearm into the wild.
And, of course, a more adversarial, punitive, and abusive relationship with the nation’s peaceable gun owners. In Brandon’s world, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
And, of course, more power for the anti-gun politicians that CBS, Schlesinger, Brandon and ATF are campaigning for.
But hey, they don’t want to confiscate your weapons. Just regulate them away from you. Because otherwise, they might be misused. See, it’s all for your own good.
Update
By the way, Brandon was also the Cover-Up King of Operation Gunwalker, according to ineffectual former director Byron T. Jones:
- Quote :
- According to outgoing Director Jones’s sworn testimony of April 2, 2014 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Mr. Brandon was the person who determined disciplinary punishments for all of the ATF personnel involved in Fast and Furious. Brandon was “the ultimate decision maker.” Director Jones confirmed that Thomas Brandon did not fire a single person for participation in Fast and Furious.
The 471 page Justice Department Inspector General Report by Michael E. Horowitz recommended disciplinary action be considered for 14 federal officials….
Brandon intervened, to make sure that none was seriously disciplined. Instead, most have since been promoted (one was allowed to take a job in the private sector and still draw his ATF salary, bonus and benefits for a year while doing it. Brandon personally signed off on that). Now he’s using the imprimatur of the agency, and the bully pulpit of CBS, to campaign for gun control and for politicians that support it.
Sure, Federal Agents are supposed to obey the law, but no one’s ever expected him to, before, so why would he start now?
http://weaponsman.com/?p=33852
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