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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Jan 5, 2025, 06:08 AM Sunday

ATF chief warns that agency cuts could result in dire consequences

Source: CBS News

January 4, 2025 / 8:41 PM EST


Washington — With just days remaining in the Biden administration, not all of the president's appointees are departing quietly. Steven Dettelbach, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is warning that the incoming administration has the agency in its sights.

Dettelbach's agency helped identify Thomas Crooks — the gunman in the July assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania — by tracing the assault rifle which Crooks fired. "In the assassination attempt on President Trump, ATF identified the shooter in that case in under 30 minutes," Dettelbach said.

He says the ATF is navigating a wave of gun dangers, including ghost guns, one of which was used in the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York City last month. "They're very pervasive because they appeal to people who can't get guns legally," Dettelbach said. These small parts, some created on 3D printers, can turn traditional guns into automatic weapons.

Dettelbach, who expects to leave his post when Trump is inaugurated, warns that the ATF is a prime target for major reductions.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atf-chief-steven-dettelbach-warns-against-agency-cuts-dire-consequences/

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ATF chief warns that agency cuts could result in dire consequences (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sunday OP
GOP does not want to have Laws, Rules, Prison Oneear Sunday #1
Never forget the true Republican core constituency: Racists and Polluters underpants Sunday #2
Destruction and lawlessness is the POINT of the new admin jvill Sunday #3
Another of many groups of Trump Voters DENVERPOPS Sunday #4

Oneear

(158 posts)
1. GOP does not want to have Laws, Rules, Prison
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 06:47 AM
Sunday

America, Citizens, Taxpayers, Voters, Come advance further gun safety measures that will help keep our children and communities safe

underpants

(187,612 posts)
2. Never forget the true Republican core constituency: Racists and Polluters
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 09:18 AM
Sunday

and racists very often love guns and bombs.

DENVERPOPS

(10,224 posts)
4. Another of many groups of Trump Voters
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 12:33 PM
Sunday

yet to get screwed by him..............by their own ignorance and stupidity...........

If the Posse Comatatus act is repealed, that will be the end of all of the thousands of Border Patrol Jobs.

ETC, ETC, ETC..................

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