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ABOLISHATF

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Two are products. One is a constitutional right.

Official story

What they claim to do

Enforces federal laws on firearms, explosives, arson and the illegal trafficking of alcohol and tobacco.

Ground truth

What they actually do

Its “Fast and Furious” operation let roughly 2,000 guns walk across the border into Mexico. By rule, it turned bump stocks from legal accessories into felonies overnight, until the Supreme Court struck that ban down in Garland v. Cargill (2024).

The libertarian case

The Second Amendment doesn’t come with a regulatory asterisk. An agency that redefines lawful property as contraband by memo, and whose dealer-sale records critics warn amount to a back-door registry, is a standing threat to the right it’s supposed to leave alone. Prosecute violence. Don’t license the tools.

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