How the ATF, Key to Biden's Gun Plan, Became an NRA 'Whipping Boy'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — If there was one moment that summed up the current state of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, it was when the floor at the agency’s gun-tracing center caved in a couple of years ago under the weight of paper.

The accident was not entirely accidental.

The gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association, has for years systematically blocked plans to modernize the agency’s paper-based weapons-tracing system with a searchable database. As a result, records of gun sales going back decades are stored in boxes stacked seven high, waiting to be processed, against every wall.

“We had a lady pushing a cart, and the floor just gave way,” recalled Tyson J. Arnold, who runs the tracing center, tapping the new, steel-braced deck with his shoe.

Now the long-suffering ATF (somehow the “explosives” never made it into the abbreviation) is at the center of President Joe Biden’s plans to push back at what he has called “the international embarrassment” of gun violence in America.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/atf-key-bidens-gun-plan-115550928.html

Let me use a phrase often used by the right, "If you're a law abiding citizen then what the hell are to afraid of?"

[AndyS]

1. This has been the SOP of the gun industry since 1970.

Give no ground on anything regardless of how innocuous. Absolute zero tolerance policy. Bring a flamethrower to a policy debate. And they use it to inflame the paranoia of gun owners.

It has always amazed me that a group so well armed can be so easily frightened. So frightened that many of them can't leave their own homes without carrying a loaded gun. How timid and afraid is that?