Tom McClintock Asks ATF Head Point Blank: 'What Do You Think Is The Purpose of The 2nd Amendment?' 

Instead of having a hearing, why not just shut down the ATF? Take a vote and pass it!

DISBAND THE ATF - DEFUND ALL POSITIONS

The atf murdered that guy

He belongs in jail. But democrats are far above all laws.

DISBAND THE ATF !!!!!!!

I have a visceral hatred for people who refuse to give straight answers to simple questions.

Enemy of the State

In black and white it says, "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" What do you have to say now, traitor?

The ATF Director should have been fired one week after been appointed

Says the 2A exists to protect our right, but he's the director of an agency whose sole purpose is to infringe on that right. What a moron!!

He's lying. People have lost their FFLs over very minor paperwork errors.

The atf director sounds more like a political activist or a politician than the leader of the atf. No accountability whatsoever

Lies. All Lies. This is a prime example of why "qualified immunity" must be abolished.

DIDDLEBUTT IS FULL OF $HIT !

Dittledingbat needs to be removed as well as the ATF

I respectfully disagree with the need for an ATF.

Have you ever conducted a raid on the home of someone who leans to the left?

If they enforced the border like this....😅

aft director needs to be fired and put in prison

The inability of people to answer a simple yes or no question is astonishing.

The federal government has NO right to regulate firearms for U.S. citizens. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!

The only thing he's remorseful about is that his agency has been exposed as incompetent and evil. He wanted that to be kept a secret.

He. Is lying. This is ridiculous

Force rammed into a man;s home with no felony arrest warrant is murder.

He with out a shadow of doubt knew this was going ahead

IF YOU CANNOT ANSWER THE QUESTION 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🫵🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸You should be fired DISBAND THE A T F NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is legal unless we decide to look for something to make it illegal

This person does not have the capacity for remorse

Bureaucracy, bureaucratic, double talk on parade. We are in the age of Newspeak.

He's got that line memorized. 'There is a specific provision that Congress has passed'. The ATF is the only agency that gets to determine the meaning for that specific provision.

Every time the atf head says"respectfully" he is lying or avoiding the question!!

"That was one sentence out of a 16-page rule," he said, thinking he's helping his case. No, sir, you just underscored how onerous and complicated your rules are.

What is the ATF"s position on Chicago gun crime and Murder or are they only interested in Republicans?

Diddleback gives a new, expanded definition of the term :slimey weasel". How do characters like this become directors of government agencies?

Ample Due Process? Since when was a door getting kicked in and a dozen agents unloading “due process”?!

DEFUND THE ATF! Congress needs to start using its power of the PURSE

The ATF stormed the Malinowski household and killed Malinowski with an efficiency SEAL Team 6 could not hope to achieve against Bin Laden.

I feel so dirty after listening to this thing weasel and slime around the questions

This director needs to go. He does not even know anything about gun and the legal use.

We see law breaking at every one of these hearings yet nobody gets punished. WHY NOT?

There should be penalties for these installed talking heads for not answering direct questions. I just wish the GOP would find some representatives with stones enough to do something!!

How does gov't claim the Bill of Rights are to be protected while at the same time regulating, restricting and outright removing Rights? Gov't isn't protecting Rights, they're usurping and violating Rights; having free citizens ask for permission, paying a tax stamp-- that isn't protecting Rights, that's extortion. You can't exercise a Right unless you pay gov't and get their approval. Without their approval or payment, you can NOT exercise a Right. Again, thats not protecting Rights, that's usurping and violating Rights.

Respectfully just words another snake in the grass

"...Shall Not Be Infringed."

The ATF is a ROGUE agency with a ROGUE director and should go the way of the Dodo!!

His answer on 2A wasn't specific enough.

congressman we are doing everything possible to obfuscate this issue

Dude keeps saying respectfully. He's the most disrespectful person by violating the constitution and hiding behind congressional bs . He needs to go

The ATF needs to be dissolved, immediately.

For a guy that is supposed to be an attorney, he doesn’t know what the 2nd. Amendment means or is about is absolutely ludicrous !!!

im just waiting for him to say "I WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS" !!

He has a valid point. It is in black and white. Hundreds of pages hiding little gems that can be interpreted multiple ways. But they have the last say on the interpretation.

ATF should have no law enforcement authority WHATSOEVER. It should be nothing but a paperwork shuffling agency with NO authority to interpret or change laws or definitions or implement the laws. Reduce it to paper pushing ONLY. The ATF absolutely should have no authority or responsibilty to conduct any form of law enforcement activity. It is not COMPETENT to engage in such activities.

Mr word salad

Just hoping one day law enforcement doesn't kill me for my own safety...

The secret catch 22 is when he says, "legitimate collector." What defines a "legitimate collector?"

WHY $200 !?!? IT'S A RIGHT NOT A FEE or a moneymaker for the greedy government.

Question ❓ Exactly What is America getting for Taxes Paid for ATF

Due process?? The last guy you guys murdered was not even given due process you just murdered a gun collector.

When people start stuttering, they are very likely to be lying.

Stutterbu😅tt no person in charge should stutter so much . Trying to cover his ass when he knows his agency is rogue

GCA is a non law. The 2A is the Supreme law of the land. NOWHERE does it say A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arm shall not be infringed as long as the ATF says its ok.

Yeah, the dealer who lost his FFL because an employee entered "United States" (_country_) instead of _county_ on a 4473 was a real threat to the public and was _clearly and obviously_ falsifying documents. Same with the FFL who put the make of the gun in the model field and the model in the make field. This is the same agency that sold guns to the cartels, "lost" thousands of others and murdered Malinowski.

Also if a word is misspelled or other clerical errors not cause by the purchaser or seller but not intended to give false information. The seller license is automatically revoked.

TYRANTS!!!!

That joker shouldn't even be a bartender.

Insane how Dettelbach uses the same answer for multiple different questions.

Why did they put a lawyer in charge of the aft?

imagine having to get a license to practice your 1st amendment, 5th, etc. what if women seeking abortions were required to get a license? Why is onlybthe 2nd subject to total government oversight?

What are these committees for if all these directors lie and fail to account for unlawful actions,with no accountability.

For those who do not understand the meaning of 'Rights', we need to make it clear once and for all: The Second Amendment does not apply to semi-automatic rifles, pistols, revolvers or shotguns regardless of the make, model or caliber. The Second Amendment RESTRICTS GOVERNMENT. The technology of the firearm is irrelevant. The restrictions upon government remain the same, regardless of the firearm. The Second Amendment was not written to grant permission for citizens to keep and bear arms as that is a God given right to survival. It forbids GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE in the right to keep and bear arms, period. The right of the people to keep and bear arms, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Can't get anymore point-blank than bold capitalized letters that means precisely what it says. This also applies to the other 'Rights'. They are not granted by government, they stipulate inherent rights that the government MAY NOT PROHIBIT. This is the reason why the BILL of RIGHTS were written. The BILL of RIGHTS are based upon the First through to the Tenth Amendment (1-10) to the Constitution, which are the written 'RESTRICTIONS' upon the three branches of government (Legislative, Judicial and Executive), NOT THE PEOPLE. Case law is NOT the supreme Law of the Land - the Constitution is. Our Constitutional Republic Government is Of, For, and By the People. The goal of tyrants are to deprive you of your Rights and Freedoms. It is never wrong to do right. It is never right to do wrong. Let's stop their attempts to destroy our Constitution and our country. We are not a DEMOCRACY. We are a Constitutional Republic, period.

They needed a new airport director, to go along with their drug smuggling operation. It's the only explanation that makes sense to me.

"...people who are bona fide collectors can liquidate their collections..." bona fide: made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud So who's to decide if someone is a bona fide collector?

DUMBLEDORK and his band of merry men tal mid gets!

How can he say it's written in black & white when the rule is entirely open to subjective interpretation?

Did everyone hear that studder? That means that everything he said after that was a LIE!

Do not question the Einsatzgruppen.

It would be most unwise to force law abiding American citizens to deal with a tyrannical govt. themselves.

It's to keep the Government from illegally kicking your door in in the middle of the night.

"We asked another three letter agency to investigate, and they're totally not going cover our ass for us."

Liar, liar pants on fire!

He needs to get up to date with the legal rulings as it has been ruled that convicted felons DO HAVE 2A RIGHTS, which makes the form 4473 unconstitutional as its whole purpose is a mote point

Protect from invaders .

The question still comes back; why a pre-dawn no knock warrant? There is absolutely no justification for it!!!

The ATF should be a convenience store, NOT a government agency.

Tom McClintock Asks ATF Head Point Blank: 'What Do You Think Is The Purpose of The 2nd Amendment?' "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, December 20, 1787 "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824 "On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823 "...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..." - James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788 “A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." - Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788 "I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers." - George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun." - Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778 "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." - Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833 "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt (the Younger), Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783 "What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty .... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins." - Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, I Annals of Congress 750, August 17, 1789 "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops." - Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787

Question ❓ Last Time ATF Pledged Aligence to the American Flag

Fumble man , fumble man is a tool

there is no reason for a 16 page rule/law.

The details "we" have already gotten indicate that the outcome of the "search" was the one the aft wanted going in. Judging by how these executions usually play out, one expects the shooters to receive promotions for a job well done. PS: It did not escape notice that the same government that never even bothers to pretend to keep accurate records on ANYthing, requires perfection in a deliberately complicated paperwork storm FFLs must navigate for every single transaction. PPS: I like how -dufflebag- -diddlebook- dumple... this guy pretends that having an FFL doesn't require one to abandon any expectation of privacy, because aft will -shoot- -your- -dog- 'inspect' your facility/inventory at will without warning or paperwork.

It's hard to believe this ATF man if he had his way he would have you by guns from government entadentys

He does not think that the American citizens should own a firearm because it makes his job too difficult.

It is legal to drive the speed limit unless the officer deems it an unsafe speed for the road conditions

This is what happens when you hire McLovin.

The dem swamp

This guy needs to be 6' under taking care of daisy's

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

I I I uh uh uh uh is that all he knows how to say smh

It says make profit that means selling one gun breaks the law..

Disband the ATF!