Marvin Richardson, long-time Deputy Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), has been fast-tracked to the unemployment line after he was given the choice of voluntary retirement or pressured elimination. Richardson had been with the ATF for many years, serving below quite a few administrations together with his file stretching again to the 1993 battle in Waco, Texas, leaving seventy-six Department Davidians lifeless, together with over twenty youngsters, a bloodbath for which he was awarded the Treasury Division’s Hostile Motion Medal.
Richardson is the most recent holdover to half methods with the ATF because the Trump Division of Justice (DOJ) below Pam Bondi seeks to wash home on the company after its political weaponization by the Biden administration. Earlier this yr, ATF Chief Counsel and fellow anti-gun sweetheart Pam Hicks acquired her strolling papers and was subsequently changed by Second Modification scholar and professor, Robert Leider, however not earlier than doing her justifiable share of injury alongside Richardson by focusing on the firearms trade and American gun homeowners with unconstitutional regulation and prosecution for years.
Richardson, who noticed pistol stabilizing braces as an affront to his beloved infringement, the Nationwide Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA), was an instrumental power behind the ATF’s declaration of battle on People who had outfitted firearms with them primarily based on the company’s earlier guidelines declaring braces a non-NFA accent. He was additionally one of many key instruments within the Biden administration’s assault on privately manufactured firearms, for which the left has now connected the made-up moniker, “ghost gun.”
One other a part of Richardson’s anti-America portfolio is the not too long ago repealed “zero tolerance coverage” which led to a 500% enhance in Federal Firearms License (FFL) revocations. Fortunately, the one zero-tolerance actions this comrade must concern himself with now are those that exited him from his profession bureaucrat place. Nevertheless it’s not time to have fun past some ceremonial pleasure acquired from Richardson’s latest misfortune, as extra work have to be performed inside a legislative capability to safe and defend American gun rights towards subversive parts inside our authorities that can undoubtedly rise with the subsequent Democrat chief our nation is cursed with.
Richardson is a high quality instance of this. Through the first Trump administration, he tried to strike at pistol stabilizing braces, which the Justice Division had ordered the ATF to steer clear of. Nonetheless, Richardson did oversee the issuance of stop and desist letters to Q, LLC over the brace-equipped Honey Badger, claiming it was a short-barreled rifle (SBR) regardless of being categorised as a pistol by the ATF’s personal requirements. He continued by issuing related letters to different producers as properly earlier than his efforts have been shut down by the Trump DOJ.
Richardson lay in await his second, and in 2020, he after which appearing ATF Director Regina Lombardo met with the Biden transition crew, unbeknownst to the sitting Trump administration, to debate plans to refocus and weaponize the company, in keeping with studies from a supply contained in the ATF who spoke to Ammoland Information. Richardson had complained concerning the want for extra political help for his quest to criminalize numerous People in a single day by way of an abrupt shifting of the stabilizing brace goalposts. To no person’s shock, Richardson received simply the help he hoped for instantly after Biden took workplace, because the anti-Second Modification roadmap had already been developed with the transition crew.
It’s necessary to do not forget that simply as these profession bureaucrats acted because the political instruments of a treasonous administration, as they do with any Democrat-led administration America is pressured to endure, the unlucky inevitability is that they’ll find yourself doing so once more sooner or later. Regulatory “rule” rollbacks and Government Orders ebb and movement just like the tide, with precise pro-American laws being the one true long-term answer to the harm that has been performed to the Second Modification. Make no mistake, Richardson’s dismissal is a optimistic step ahead, however not one which secures our Constitutional footing. Solely after we see the repeal of main infringements, just like the NFA, the Gun Management Act of 1968 (GCA), the Hughes Modification, and the reigning in of rogue states violating American gun rights, will the Second Modification really be restored.
