4d chess... Canterbury ATF Nomination: This Tale Doesn’t Have a Happy Ending for us

[The Dumb Gun Collector]

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...-happy-ending/


Our next ATF Chief wants...

1. Universal background checks
2. Wants to really beef up the ATF
3. Wants better access to mental health records "to keep guns out of the wrong hands"
4. Canterbury has also used his official position as President of FOP to oppose constitutional carry and other gun rights legislation.
5. As head of the FOP testified in favor of Sotomayor, who soon after in McDonald v. Chicago (2010). She agreed that the individual right to keep and bear arms is not fundamental in the American scheme of justice, that gun regulations could help save lives, and that the States don’t have to uphold our right to keep and bear arms.

In the words of the great Lando Calirissian, this deal keeps getting worse all the time."

[kwelz]

All part of the plan to play 43593503D Chess.

But the "he isn't Hillary" crowd will come in and say it is all for the best.

Along with his comment on Suppressors the other day it is looking grim. And most gun owners are begging him for it.

[TomMcC]

Trump definitely fumbled at the one on this pick. He's just not a gun guy, but none of them have been since probably Kennedy.

[Pappabear]

That really really really sux.

PB

[Firefly]

Oh Boo Hoo

[SteyrAUG]

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...-happy-ending/


Our next ATF Chief wants...

1. Universal background checks
2. Wants to really beef up the ATF
3. Wants better access to mental health records "to keep guns out of the wrong hands"
4. Canterbury has also used his official position as President of FOP to oppose constitutional carry and other gun rights legislation.
5. As head of the FOP testified in favor of Sotomayor, who soon after in McDonald v. Chicago (2010). She agreed that the individual right to keep and bear arms is not fundamental in the American scheme of justice, that gun regulations could help save lives, and that the States don’t have to uphold our right to keep and bear arms.

In the words of the great Lando Calirissian, this deal keeps getting worse all the time."

What did the last ATF chief want vs what he actually got? When was the last good ATF chief?

[TomMcC]

I guess the idea was that we might actually get a real pro-2nd director someday, somehow. But alas, NO!

[tb-av]

I guess the idea was that we might actually get a real pro-2nd director someday, somehow. But alas, NO!

That person would have the job of putting himself out of business. Pro 2A would dismantle the NFA. Along that same line of thinking the criminal taxation of alcohol and tobacco would follow.

BATF could be dissolved at that point and the core remaining could be absorbed into DHS for true crime investigations.

[TomMcC]

That person would have the job of putting himself out of business. Pro 2A would dismantle the NFA. Along that same line of thinking the criminal taxation of alcohol and tobacco would follow.

BATF could be dissolved at that point and the core remaining could be absorbed into DHS for true crime investigations.

No doubt that type of person would be a true patriot.

[The Dumb Gun Collector]

Why in God’s name would you put this guy in charge of the ATF?