America’s New Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & (NO) Firearms

It just never ends; at least for the next two years, cost and if the first two were anything to go on, they can seem like an eternity.  It is nonetheless scary to contemplate what more harm that these people can do; this time, to our very precious Second Amendment rights.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, now officially the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives but still referred to as the ATF, is a federal agency that was created in 1886, and was housed at that time within the Department of the Treasury under the jurisdiction of the Internal Revenue Service.  Later transferred to the Department of Justice, the agency was bounced back and forth between the two departments until it was put under the permanent jurisdiction of the Department of Justice after the events of September, 2001.   This change represented the agency’s ultimate alteration in purpose from a revenue collecting source to a terrorist activity prevention agency.-[source]