{"id":1197494,"date":"2023-03-15T20:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T00:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/gun-owners-of-america-aghast-at-potential-atf-expansion\/1197494\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T20:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T00:11:35","slug":"gun-owners-of-america-aghast-at-potential-atf-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/gun-owners-of-america-aghast-at-potential-atf-expansion\/1197494\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Owners Of America Aghast At Potential ATF Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gun Owners Of America Aghast At Potential ATF Expansion<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

A national gun rights organization is decrying the expansion of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in President Joe Biden\u2019s $6.8 trillion budget proposal for 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGOA is extremely concerned<\/strong> at the massive surge in ATF funding in recent years\u2014doubling the size of the agency since the end of the Obama administration,\u201d Aidan Johnston, Gun Owners of America\u2019s director of federal affairs, wrote in an email to The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s budget proposal contains $1.9 billion for the ATF. This is a 13.6 percent increase over 2022 and half a billion dollars more than the agency\u2019s fiscal 2020 budget.<\/p>\n

If passed as written, Biden\u2019s budget would expand the ATF by 35.7 percent\u2014an overall growth of more than 50 percent since the Obama administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A researcher simulates a check done for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System or NICS, at the FBI\u2019s criminal justice center in Bridgeport, W.Va., on Nov. 18, 2014. (Matt Stroud\/AP Photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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According to Biden\u2019s plan, the $1.9 billion would finance the expansion of multi-jurisdictional gun trafficking strike forces, increase firearms industry regulation, and implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.<\/p>\n

The proposal also calls for $51 million for the FBI to complete implementing the enhanced background check system that is part of the Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a statement, GOA said the budget items are nothing more than incremental gun control that will make no one safer while denying law-abiding gun owners their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

The organization is especially alarmed at funding for \u201ccrisis intervention programs,\u201d so-called \u201cRed Flag Laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

GOA and other gun rights groups claim that Red Flag laws set the stage for authorities to confiscate firearms without due process. They say that language in the Act requiring due process is misleading.<\/p>\n

Read more here…<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 03\/15\/2023 – 23:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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