Letter to the ATF on February 20, 2025

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Your views are important to my work in the United States Senate on behalf of the people of Georgia, and I appreciate you taking the time to share them with me. My office has been receiving an unprecedented level of correspondence lately. I will be sending you a more substantive response to your specific concerns, but in the meantime, I want to let you know that I received your message and value your comments.  


If you have written regarding a problem you are having with a federal agency, a caseworker in one of my Georgia offices will be contacting you shortly. To expedite direct contact with a caseworker, you may also call my Atlanta office for assistance.

Again, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me.

Sincerely,
Reverend Raphael Warnock
United States Senator
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock
2/23/2025

The February 20, 2025 letter asserts that the ATF should align its policies with President Trump’s Second Amendment priorities as laid out in his recent Executive Order. Among other requests, the letter calls on ATF officials to work with Attorney General Pam Bondi to quickly identify and rescind policies that allow unlawful firearms regulations.

I noticed that my Senators did not sign on to this letter. That make me think that my Senators are complicate in the efforts to suppress my 2nd Amendments rights.

Why?

Do my Senators support suppressing my rights as listed in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights?  

The letter, which I refer to is about the AFT over reach of being, “Engaged in the Business” rule intended to move the ATF toward imposing universal background checks on law-abiding Americans i.e.; 

The “Pistol Brace” rule that improperly reclassified pistols equipped with stabilizing braces as short-barreled rifles, thereby subjecting them to stringent regulations and serious criminal penalties under the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act;

“Ghost Gun” rule that cracked down on law-abiding hobbyists exercising their Second Amendment rights to privately build firearms, a longstanding tradition dating back to the Colonial Era; and

“Zero Tolerance” policy under which ATF has revoked the licenses of federal firearm licensees (FFLs) over minor bookkeeping violations.

In addition, the Senators request that the ATF immediately destroy the hundreds of millions of ATF Form 4473 firearm transaction records and other licensee records that are over 20 years old, and allow FFLs to also destroy such records.

“These records have no particular law enforcement value but do contain the sensitive information of millions of law-abiding gun owners,” the Senators wrote. “Ending the policy of retaining these very old records will save money for the American taxpayer and counteract ATF’s unconstitutional rule change.”

Why didn't you join in this?

Chief_E
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