ATF Goes After FFLs
BY Herschel Smith
2 years, 9 months ago
While the world’s attention is focused on the horrific events unfolding in Eastern Europe, the Biden-Harris administration quietly unleashed hell on American gun dealers.
As the NRA first noted, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has started revoking licenses of gun dealers for the most minor of paperwork errors – errors that never led to license revocations until Biden took office.
The move was intended to bolster Biden’s politically motivated strategem, which he first announced June 23, 2021, that “rogue” gun dealers are responsible for skyrocketing crime rates in large cities that historically have been controlled by Democrats. The “epidemic of gun violence” wasn’t caused by weak prosecutors who refuse to hold criminals accountable, or gangs or underfunded police departments or by any combination thereof, Biden claimed. It was all the fault of “rogue gun dealers.”
Inner city crime has nothing to do with so-called “rogue” gun dealers. It has to do with the destruction of the nuclear family and rejection of God’s laws. We all know that. This is just another ploy to make it as difficult as they can on firearms manufacturers, dealers and owners.
Having said all of that, I observed some number of months ago that if FFLs want to stay in business in the future, they’re going to have to implement human performance and error reduction tools, to include: (1) routine training and retraining, (2) qualification measures, (3) self check and STAR (stop, think, act and review), (4) independent verification, and so on.
Staying in business will require error-free performance of employees. In the future, I see no other way.
By the way, as best as I can cipher the statistics, the lowest error rates by industry in the country are nuclear (coming in at the lowest), airlines, and pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors. The medical profession comes in at one of the highest human error prone professions. I’m not criticizing – I’m just reporting.
On March 22, 2022 at 6:29 am, Matt said:
I have to wonder, how many would it take to reach an effective critical mass of people telling the controllers to go pound sand and stop playing the “I need permission to run my business”? How many of those would also have to be willing to say, ‘I don’t recognize your claim of authority and will not submit to an arrest attempt or your fake courts” and be willing to back that up.
The controllers come in one of two flavors, one for which it’s just a paycheck and the ones for which putting their boot on your neck is ideological. The former may decide it’s not worth it, while the latter are an evil enemy.
On March 22, 2022 at 8:23 am, J said:
One obvious point (to me) was missed…where are the arms/ammo manufacturers? They are for all practical purposes just like the NRA…only out to service their feral and state customers.
The ATF situation has been out of control for so long that no solution to this unconstitutional overreach will be easy. How do you solve the underlying problems like huge sums of money from the tax thieves, kickbacks and preferential contracts for election contributions, etc.?
Everyone knows that the ATF arms regulations are extra-constitutional and growing due to the afore mentioned feral support or acquiescence. We are quickly approaching the contentious and biblically promised collision.
On March 22, 2022 at 11:49 am, Ohio Guy said:
I agree with both what Matt and J stated/asked. How much defenestration will freedom wishing citizens tolerate before active measures are taken at ground level to combat these abuses/crimes?
On March 22, 2022 at 7:06 pm, Rocketguy said:
Death by bureaucracy. Major changes are difficult and likely dangerous. You guys notice this water is getting a little warm?
On March 22, 2022 at 9:43 pm, Bradley A Graham said:
Never forget with medical school…….Some one graduated at the bottom of their class.
On March 23, 2022 at 12:44 am, Miles said:
A few years ago, I noticed one of the family owned & operated LGS suddenly had the wife be the final approving inspector for all forms and also the only one that did the NFA forms, with the husband being the alternate but only when the Mrs. wasn’t available. None of the other staff had anything to do with forms except handing them to a buyer, and I noticed some staff I’d known for years weren’t there as well.
My family has known their family for several decades and the wife unit has always been noted for her punctilious nature, so it was surmised that there was a paperwork SNAFU and she had put her foot down and started running her brand of QAQC.
On March 25, 2022 at 7:58 pm, AlfredENewman said:
If govt wants zero tolerance for errors, how about applying that to itself? Seems to me ATF let guns go to Mexico. Seems like Tricare lost every soldier’s patient info a few years ago. Seems like Biden and crew and DOD lost 86 trillion in military hardware in AFG. I dunno, they ought to clean house first before attacking civilians.