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alan · June 20, 2011, 02:09 PM

Bartholomew Roberts:

I could be completely wrong here but re the antics of the BATFE, it's "checkered past", the problem arises from the nature of the laws, re firearms, that it "enforces", questions of it's competence or incompetence aside.

The entirety of the existing body of federal firearms law, with few exceptions, amounts to a closet overburdened with "stuff" that should have long since have been thrown away. That strikes me as the problem, that the congress has not only failed to check the antics of the BATFE, but that it has failed to clean out the closet. The question of whether The Congress can be looked to for the above mentioned, needed effort, is another matter.

June 20, 2011, 02:09 PM	#325
alan Senior Member Join Date: June 7, 1999 Posts: 3,847	Bartholomew Roberts: I could be completely wrong here but re the antics of the BATFE, it's "checkered past", the problem arises from the nature of the laws, re firearms, that it "enforces", questions of it's competence or incompetence aside. The entirety of the existing body of federal firearms law, with few exceptions, amounts to a closet overburdened with "stuff" that should have long since have been thrown away. That strikes me as the problem, that the congress has not only failed to check the antics of the BATFE, but that it has failed to clean out the closet. The question of whether The Congress can be looked to for the above mentioned, needed effort, is another matter.