Marjorie Taylor Greene Looks to Abolish ATF, Decries 'War on Gun Owners'
By: Jenni Fink (Newsweek)
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Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is looking to get rid of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), in an effort to protect gun owners from a "tyrannical, power hungry group of bureaucrats."
Greene, a staunch advocate for Second Amendment rights, introduced legislation on Thursday that would abolish the ATF and repeal regulations and guidance issued after August 2020. The legislation comes as Republicans push back on Dave Chipman, President Joe Biden's nominee to head the ATF, who they see as a threat to the right to own firearms.
The legislation, as reported by The Daily Caller, would abolish the ATF six months after the bill is enacted. It would also require President Joe Biden to inform every employee of the ATF in writing of the abolishment date.
Along with making the ATF a defunct agency, Greene's legislation would set up an auction for the firearms and ammunition the ATF confiscated. Greene's looking to use the proceeds from the auction to create a fund for families of Border Patrol officers killed in the line of duty after December 1, 2009, according to the Daily Caller. After providing grants of up to $150,000 per family affected, remaining funds would go to states who establish firearm safety programs.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced legislation that would abolish the ATF on Thursday. Greene holds a press conference to call for the dismissal of Dr. Anthony Fauci on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 15. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
"I'm introducing legislation to Eliminate the ATF to protect ALL gun owners across this country from a tyrannical, power hungry group of bureaucrats whose goal is to destroy our Second Amendment rights," Greene told Newsweek.
While announcing her intent to introduce the legislation, Greene criticized Chipman, who supports a ban on the AR-15 rifle. Greene called it a "clear indication" that the "ATF's war on gun owners is about to crank up."
Chipman, who worked for the ATF for decades, left the agency in 2012 and joined Giffords, a gun violence prevention group named after former Representative Gabby Giffords, who was shot at a Tucson, Arizona, supermarket in 2011. While he supports the ban, which Biden also backs, Chipman said he would only enforce the "laws on the books right now" if he was confirmed, noting that there's "no such ban on those guns."
His advocacy work for stricter gun laws earned high praise from gun violence prevention organizations and some legislators. Chipman's confirmation is possible since Democrats have the majority, but the 50-50 split in the chamber means they'll likely have to be unified if they want him to assume the role.
Greene's bill also faces an uphill battle in Congress and has even slimmer chances of gaining the necessary support than Chipman's confirmation does. Before introducing the bill, Greene had three cosponsors—Representatives Ralph Norman, Paul Gosar and Matt Gaetz—but she'll need to win over Democrats, who hold the majority in the House, to eliminate the ATF, and that's likely not going to happen.
This article has been updated to include comment from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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We have several guns in our house and would like to have more. Nobody has come to take them.
I don't really know how I feel about this. I like to drink and smoke, so yeah, maybe we can abolish the A and the T.***
***or for my more innuendo minded friends T and A
No. I am vehemently opposed to getting rid of the T and A, if anything we need more of that.
cool. I can put antifreeze in bottles labeled lime vodka and sell them in georgia now. /s
You mean she doesn’t know what the fuck she is talking about? Now THAT is surprising to me!
On another note, she is fugly. Honestly every time I see a picture of her my first thought is “she looks like a dude with a shitty haircut.”
the cro-maga-non woman
Well good for her. She’s doing the right thing on this issue. I salute her for being a very good member of Congress.
Did you know that a group of baboons is called a Congress? Large Marge is the head baboon
it must really be disturbing not to vote up his own comment, but at least he's fantasizing about her instead of the attendees of the thumper madrasa, for now...
Wow, the GOP is now looking to defund the police. I guess this is only the beginning of the GOP war on law enforcement. /s
God this lady is a fucking dumbass. Thankfully this will go exactly nowhere.
With her tilting her head like that she looks like she is confused: "ERRR What?"
We, too have many long guns in the house & a compound bow and a straight bow. No one has knocked on our door to get them..... they have been scaring the yokels for years with this "they are going to take your gun bullshit" and they seem to be too stupid to realize it hasn't & won't happen.
My niece & her husband (who I love dearly) are clearly conservative & Bible thumping Christians. They believe any restriction on guns is a move to no guns for citizens. She said to me once that she would be fine sitting next to a man in a diner with a gun strapped to his hip. I asked her "Even if that man was your Uncle Peter?" She blanched (little backstory - my brother, Peter is a convicted sex offender that got out of jail after 12 yrs & is currently back in jail for child porn). Then she said "He is a felon he can't buy a gun". I replied "Without a background check how would they know before selling it to him?" She had no reply.
Lol the backpedaling is funny.
I know - I love doing that.
She was a pica child. A pica child is a kid that can't resist putting things in their mouths like dirt and paint chips
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) should be a convenience store not a government agency,