Poor, Poor ATF!

So neglected!  So frustrated!  So...(snort) heheheheheh...

Here's an article you ought to read.  It's from the Washington Post, and its writers are terribly concerned about the frantic need to do something about F-Troop's antiquated record-keeping, understaffing and lack of official management.  Yeah, my heart bleeds.

Here's a hint, Sari and James.  I note it's something you left out of your reportage on the poor, sad, bleeding ATF.  There's a reason the "gun lobby" turned so viciously on these selfless public servants.  It's a reason you'd have found quite easy to unearth, had it occurred to you to try.  It's not a secret.

Go out from your ivory tower and find yourself the most "law-abiding," non-slavering, apolitical gun owner you can find.  Don't worry; just throw a SIG over the fence first and he won't hurt you.  Then ask him his opinion of the lantern-jawed heroes of the ATF.

Er...stand back a bit first.  What you will find is that, though he has probably never met an actual ATF agent in the flesh, he hates, hates, HATES the ATF.  With a smoldering, resentful passion, he hates it and everything having to do with it.  And he has gone to some lengths to break its legs and stake it out in the sun without water.

Ask him the reason for that.  Then do a little digging on the history of the ATF, and of the way it treats American citizens when it's not crippled.

You could start with "Operation Show Time."

H/T to Sipsey Street