ASA friend and legal expert Michael Faucette, explains why transparency and reform are needed to restore Americans' 2nd Amendment rights after four years of bias and abuse toward lawful gun owners. Mike is a partner at Wiley Rein, LLP in Washington, DC, as well as Executive Director, Firearms and Ammunition Import/Export Roundtable (F.A.I.R.) Trade Group.
“The latest attempt to undermine the administration is coming in the form of weak and fledgling attacks on President Trump’s pick for acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Kash Patel. It is the height of irony that this group of House Democrats would malign Patel as an “unqualified partisan” when President Biden’s choice for the agency, Steve Dettelbach, took unprecedented steps to weaponize the ATF against gun owners in order to push a dogmatic anti-firearm agenda…”
“Another administrative quagmire the ATF should address is the regulation of suppressors. There is a common misconception that background checks for NFA items such as suppressors—one of the most misunderstood safety devices in the world—are more exhaustive than those for traditional firearms. In reality, their background checks are identical. However, for NFA items, FBI is not held to the same three-day statutory limit that applies to Title I firearms like rifles, pistols, and shotguns. Thus, delayed NFA background checks are set aside by FBI examiners as a non-priority. This often results in extensive delays, simply because the FBI treats these identical background checks differently.”
