Under Biden’s proposed budget the ATF will be getting a massive increase in its budget. Under the Biden proposal the agency will be getting a massive $1.7 billion in additional funding.
The new budget proposal from the administration is going to be a massive 13% increase from years prior and this is going on with the agency getting a leader.
This increase in budget is going to go towards hiring more ATF agents, hunting down “rouge” firearm dealers, and increasing firearms regulations.
As reported by Armed American News:
There are few documents in Washington more worthless than a presidential budget. Joe Biden’s budget, which was formally presented Monday, is no exception.
A presidential budget is merely a wish list – a starting point for the complex task of funding the government. They’re more of a statement of priorities than an actual budget, and Biden’s priorities are very clear. He wants to increase funding for the ATF by more than 13%, so the embattled agency can hire more special agents to target Biden’s fictional “rogue gun dealer” boogeymen, whom the White House blames for skyrocketing crime rates in large cities historically controlled by Democrats.
This should really come as no shock to anyone as the Biden administration has moved from targeting the everyday gun owner to the firearms industry. Firearm manufacturers and gun store owners are the new aim of gun control activists and anti-gun politicians. This push from the administration will ultimately affect the everyday gun owner as firearms become harder to obtain and harder to learn about.
Armed American News would go on to explain the very problem with giving more funding to the ATF despite its long history of failures:
The main problem with any increase in funding for the ATF is the ATF itself. Historically, the agency has proven all too willing to be weaponized by the current occupants of the White House, especially if the current occupants are anti-gun, and there has never been a more anti-gun crew than the Biden-Harris administration.
This susceptibility to political pressure has led to massive failures, which have cost hundreds of lives: Ruby Ridge, Waco and Fast and Furious to name a few deadly debacles. The fact that the ATF isn’t now pushing back against Biden’s crazy “rogue gun dealers” theory shows just how far the agency is willing to go for a presidential belly-scratch and pat on the head. After all, we all know the real reasons why violent crime rates are skyrocketing in large cities – gangs, defunded and demoralized police, and soft-on-crime prosecutors – and they don’t have anything to do with gun dealers of any kind, rogue or law-abiding. In fact, the ATF continues to provide top cover for Biden’s theory. As of today, they still have not responded to a pair of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, which would debunk Biden’s rogue gun dealer theory once and for all.
Many on the American right chant and shout “abolish the ATF ” and not only do they have every right to, this isn’t the worst idea. The issue is the very act of dissolving the ATF as a federal agency, this would almost never happen. Even the strongest conservatives would not want to open that gateway to dissolving the ATF, the response from the next Democrat president would be to dissolve a different federal agency. I am afraid the best we can hope for is a massive decrease in the agency’s budget and ahead of the agency that will bring a halt to the regulations it creates.
