from WND:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has launched a new “zero tolerance” policy that will make it easier to revoke gun stores’ federal firearms licenses, according to Second Amendment advocates reacting to a leaked copy of the guidelines.
The internal document says the bureau “has zero tolerance for willful violations that greatly affect public safety and ATF’s ability to trace firearms recovered in violent crimes” and that “revocation” of the federal firearms licensee (FFL’s) license “is the assumed action” with violations,” reports Fox News Digital, which acquired the 12-page ATF document titled, “Federal Firearms Administrative Action Policy and Procedures” (see full memo below).
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Among those violations for which “revocation is the assumed action” (barring “extraordinary circumstances”) are, according to the internal memo:
- Transfer of a firearm to a prohibited person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the transferee is a prohibited person”;
- Failing to perform a background check;
- “Failure to respond to a firearm trace request within 24 hours after receipt of request”; and
- “making a false or fictitious written statement in the FFL’s required records or in applying for a firearms license.”
The Jan. 28 ATF document was first obtained by the pro-Second-Amendment organization Gun Owners of America (GOA), which shared it with Fox. The “no-compromise” gun-rights lobby group fears the new policy is part of a larger Biden effort to accumulate information on law-abiding gun owners for potential escalating confiscations.
The ATF is in “confiscation mode,” Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb told the Daily Caller News Foundation, commenting on another Biden overreach on “pistol braces” announced in January. The new policy has outraged Second Amendment advocates and is headed for a court challenge.
GOA tweeted Friday that the ATF “zero tolerance” policy “is shutting down gun stores left and right,” and also tweeted: “What does this mean? It means if the ATF deems any FFL action a ‘willful violation,’ then they skip all warning letters & conferences and: Revoke, [Fine] or Suspend the gun store.”
