Stephen Dettelbach, the Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, stated his wish to reimpose a ban on assault weapons. He made these comments during an interview at Harvard Kennedy School this week.
Dettelbach assured a balanced approach at his Senate confirmation hearing, but that’s not what he’s doing.
During the Q&A at Harvard, Dettelbach was asked about gun control measures on his wish list.
He responded, “I think that it would be helpful if we had universal background checks in this country. I think that’s something that seems to make some sense. I agree that we ought to consider actually reinstating a ban on certain types of assault weapons.”
[What he really wants is a gun registry.]
The ATF had proposed a new rule in August requiring thousands more firearms dealers to conduct background checks. “This new proposed rule would clarify the circumstances in which a person engaged in dealing in firearms, and unless required to obtain a license and follow the laws Congress has established for firearm dealers.
People who sell guns at shows or online would be required to be licensed and run background checks according to the rules. It would affect 24,500 to 328,000 sellers, the agency said.
The Harvard Crimson reports that Dettelbach outlined two “fundamental pillars” to reducing gun violence in America.
“One pillar is we have to get better — and at ATF, we are getting better — on identifying the drivers of violent crime,” he said. “We are getting better at identifying those few people who are likely to shoot.”
The second pillar is “doing something to either stop or at least slow down the flow of firearms to those people,” Dettelbach added.
To achieve this, he said, the ATF must prioritize “following the gun,” or keeping track of where a gun was prior to its use in a crime.
Light noted that there is some resistance to providing additional data that could facilitate gun tracking and asked Dettelbach to explain that reluctance.
“We take the laws that Congress passes, and we follow them,” Dettelbach replied.
“Congress has said that we’re not allowed to have a gun registry, and Congress has said that we’re not allowed to have certain types of searchable databases,” he said. “We follow those rules meticulously because in our constitutional form of government when there is a law passed, you follow it.”
Come take them.
Make me king and I will ban all letter agencies and place the losers who settled for govt. ’employment’ in agriculteral work, picking fruit and such for minimum wage.
I want the ATF banned.
more gun grabs to disarm the honest citizens while doing squat to disarm the criminals. Different day, same smell.
97% of gun violence is not committed with “assault rifles” And nearly 98% of mass shooting happen in “Gun Free Zones”…
Go ahead, make get an FFL!
You first, bro.
<u>All weapons</u> are made for assaulting. “Assault weapon” is a term created from whole cloth by the <b>No Guns, No How</b> crowd to be gerrymandered into banning whatever cosmetic features they find threatening. But their bans are doomed to be ineffectual because their creed demands they remain ignorant of firearms as a species, which means the firearms enthusiasts always will find work-arounds.<p>
And their rules are unlikely ever to survive constitutional scrutiny because the linchpin of their argument is that law-abiding citizens shouldn’t be allowed to exercise rights that the <i>law-breakers</i> abuse. And if it’s a right that the government can restrict then it isn’t a right but a state-administered privilege. And the government gets to award “rights” as suits its whim, you no longer have a free society.
I’m sure they do, they know what’s coming.
They can have it – in their jurisdiction – DC, Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands.
Of course, the Director of ATF wants as much gun control as he thinks they can get. This is a Soros-installed stooge and I already forgot his name because he and his ilk are a dime a dozen.
Bottom line: AMERICA WILL NEVER BE DISARMED
The ATF is an enforcement agency, it has no role whatsoever is policy statements. This man should be reprimanded.
Let’s disband the ATF instead.
Not long ago the ATF was involved in giving the cartel guns.
Yeah, they want these rule to eliminate the competition from other cartels and drug runners (CIA)
The ATF doesn’t know that we DO have universal background checks when you purchase a firearm? How can they say we need them when we already have them? They don’t even know the law and they’re telling us what they’re going to do to us.
ummmmm…no
Hitler’s little brother…
`If he is indeed enforcing congressional rules then we should be thanking him.
On the other hand if he is trying to stop 20 or 30 nuts each year, either by onerous registration procedures or keeping millions from owning guns, he is a dictator.
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