Steve Dettelbach is the head of the ATF that wishes he could strip more firearms away than any other director in history so you’d think he’d know more about them. But you’d be wrong. This is the Biden administration where opposites apply. This bureaucrat has been mercifully silent, possibly mindful of how little he knows. He can’t define assault weapons and his hands are tied without Congress acting.
This director is silent
The Second Amendment still stands. Congress won’t act on it due to that pesky amendment and Democrat senators in red states facing tough re-election challenges in 2024.
Dettelbach appeared for a 20 minute segment on Face the Nation recently. He used the show to generate fear about rising crime that might translate into more money.
ATF Director Steven Dettelbach went on CBS’s Face The Nation & displayed a shocking ignorance of firearms while trying to gin up fear to strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
It should scare everyone that Dettelbach doesn’t know the difference between a clip & a magazine. pic.twitter.com/0cABaCZ2sT
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 3, 2024
The director begged
He said he only had 5,000 people to work with including 2,500 agents. “I think it’s fair to say that for the agency that is the only federal law enforcement agency that solely deals with violent crime, if you’re really concerned about violent crime in the United States, this agency is way, way, way too small.”
He needs taxpayer money to build a centralized database of gun owners. He complained that “all these different products which are being used to turn semiautomatic weapons into machine guns” would take funds to fix.
The director is a fraud
The segment went on longer than his but this particular section made its way to social media. It showed why “experts” shouldn’t be given a dime more and should probably have funds removed.
One of the items on a table was a “ghost gun” the Biden administration talks so much about. These are made privately with a 3D printer and plans and are supposedly untraceable. They are also apparently the biggest threat behind assault weapons. Margaret Brennan of Face the Nation marveled at the weight. This should have driven home that this wasn’t something just anybody could do but it didn’t. It’s not something a 3D printer could have done.
The director and a second “expert”
Dettelbach worked with Chris Bort, the acting chief of ATF’s Firearms Ammunition Technology Division. He surveyed that table and spoke about what was on it. Dettelbach remarked,
“It’s really important what Chris just said. This isn’t just a ghost gun, this is … a fully automatic pistol. So … you’ll pull the trigger once and it will keep firing until there are no more bullets. And you can put, again, a normal magazine on there or you can put a larger magazine on there and you can shoot out that magazine no matter how big it is, just with one pull of the trigger in fractions of a second.”
But Bort, an “expert”, couldn’t get the fully automatic slide off the pistol. Every firearm owner should be able to do this.
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