Kansas Consultant Tracey Mann is reintroducing the Reining in Federal Licensing Enforcement (RIFLE) Act, a invoice designed to defend the Second Modification and shield firearms companies as a measure to counter the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) zero-tolerance coverage established in 2021 beneath the Biden administration. The coverage is alleged to focus on willful violations by these holding a federal firearms license (FFL). Nonetheless, the ATF has revoked over 250 FFLs since its inception, 20 in Kansas alone, drawing skepticism to the coverage’s true intent.
Mann regards the inflexible coverage and its ultra-aggressive implementation as a continued assault on the Second Modification and the firearms business by means of the weaponization of the ATF beneath the previous administration.
“President Biden did all the pieces in his energy to weaponize the federal authorities in opposition to gun retailer house owners within the Large First District of Kansas and throughout the nation… His zero-tolerance coverage undermined the Second Modification and trampled on the constitutional rights of law-abiding residents. Since day one, I’ve rigorously pushed again in opposition to this unconstitutional coverage and fought for extra oversight to rein in ATF’s abuse,” based on Mann.
It ought to come as no shock, as Mann factors out, that the Biden administration’s ATF presided over record-high revocations, with 2024 seeing the biggest variety of FFL holders lose their licenses previously 20 years.
“The Second Modification is a load-bearing wall in our system of rights… Should you weaken a load-bearing wall, the complete construction is compromised. The five hundred% spike in FFL revocations beneath President Biden is unacceptable, and it’s indicative of the President’s bigger technique to chip away on the Second Modification rights of law-abiding Individuals,” says Consultant Mann.
Among the violations listed beneath the Gun Management Act which were used as grounds for license revocation embody the switch of a firearm to a prohibited particular person, failure to conduct a background verify, falsification of data, not responding to a hint request, and refusing to permit the ATF to conduct an on-site inspection.
Mann is just not the one one involved, nevertheless, that the method is liable to abuse by design, permitting for imprecise interpretations of the regulation that favor revocation with out correct discourse. Gun House owners of America has additionally performed a big function in exposing Gestapo techniques, together with a number of authorized challenges to the zero-tolerance coverage.
“Gun House owners of America has been on the forefront of the combat to unmask the ATF’s zero-tolerance coverage and has now instantly challenged the implementation of it twice in courtroom… This coverage is simply one of many quite a few intimidation techniques the Biden Administration has initiated to harass law-abiding gun house owners and firearm sellers into submission, and GOA refuses to face by and tolerate it. We urge the Home to rapidly act on Rep. Mann’s invoice to rein on this rogue federal company’s assaults on the Second Modification,” based on Aidan Johnston, Director of Federal Affairs of Gun House owners of America.
The RIFLE Act would supply FFLs enough time to reply and are available into compliance with laws whereas clearly defining the violation in no unsure phrases. The laws may also set up an appeals process and protocols to reinstate licenses revoked in the course of the no-tolerance interval. Lastly, it could set up a authorities web site to handle reimbursement claims.
The Trump administration has been busy correcting America’s course for the reason that President’s inauguration final month. Nonetheless, it stays to be seen how the forty seventh President of our nation will in the end reign within the ATF and what measures the conservative majority in our present legislature will take to revive our rights beneath the Second Modification. You bear in mind, those who “shall not be infringed.”
