Wow I didn't know that

It’s an entire agency designed to fuck with people who haven’t hurt anyone.

Okay I'm onboard with abolishing the ATF

The ATF was given radical amounts of jurispruditial power because they were intended to be a nearly-militant group to combat organized crime during the Prohibition era.

And then their powers were just never fucking revoked

Yeah, ATF should be done away with.

In fact following the 74 AWB their powers were expanded
Despite gun crime having fallen every year since 1974

Their purpose is literally prohibition imao

To this day

I recall the argument the BATF came up with to explain why the Branch Davidians weren't found to possess the M2 Browning .50 cal. machinegun which was the sole basis the ATF alleged for their warrant in the first place... "it must have evaporated in the fire".

A 50-pound pig-iron bitch of a weapon

Reminder that the federal government attacked its own civilians with a flamethrower tank during the Waco siege

In fact, most of the federal bureaucracy needs to go, because the government has expanded FAR AND WIDE beyond their prescribed limits within the U.S. Constitution. We also need to do something about these unconstitutional, local governments. They're fucking tyrants.

YOU will evaporate in a fire before a Ma Deuce will

You can't even repair your own vehicle on your own property without being fined.

Ma Deuce is explicitly designed to NOT evaporate in extreme heat

The US has been getting increasingly federal for a very long time

https://youtu.be/TNAakLv1ReU

Hmmmm

Wasn't actually a flamethrower tank. They just didn't give a shit about running over kerosene lamps in a mostly-plywood structure heated with propane while pumping in massive amounts of a flammable form of tear gas.

Yeah, we need to repeal the 17th amendment, too.

Return to federalism to distill power back to the district-level.

Reminder that the federal government didn't find any evidence of illegal explosives during the initial search of the Waco compound, so they invented a claim that the Waco commune had hand grenades in storage, which a judge rejected, but then they went ahead with the siege on the basis of exegent circumstances because of said hand grenades

CS gas is used in Army gas-mask training, and it's posted not even to SMOKE within 100 yards lest the shit catch fire.

@Calbeck any propulsion system that sprays flammable liquid through an open flame is a fucking flamethrower

Technically.

In LEEEEEEEGAL terms they were "just deploying teargas".

I'm disappointed in Trump being weak on the 2A

Enough teargas to "melt a .50 cal Browning machinegun"

God it'd be great for automatics to be legalised again

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A teargas prohibited for indoors use by the Geneva Conventions ever since the Israelis found out what happens.

America never signed the Geneva Convention, in fairness

Nor should they

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Oh and not "melt" but "evaporate" -XD

The thing has all kinds of retard shit in their

We signed the Hague convention

@Calbeck Ayyyy whatup

Honestly good on trump for backing out of the Paris accords. UN Agreements that just exist to berate first world nations while congratulating third world shitholes for tugging on their own dicks shouldn't be tolerated. The US isn't a dancing fucking monkey.

I authentically believe the Waco Massacre was entirely a matter of utter retards doing shit that was illegal up one side and down the other. The only reason none of them went to prison is that they happened to be wearing badges at the time.