https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...eople-who-failed-background-checks/901017001/
wow
ya think?
if the ATF didn't consider them dangerous, maybe they shouldn't be confiscating them. hmm...
can you imagine buying a gun and then a year later having an ATF swat team show up to confiscate it? presumably without compensation. though the article doesn't mention it, one imagines they would have some sort of search warrant and confiscate all the guns they find, not just the one on the NICS check.
I'm a little surprised they didn't get shot at a few times during the obama admin.
wow
If the background check is not complete within the 72-hour time limit, federal law allows the sale to go forward. ATF agents are asked to take back the guns if the FBI later finds these sales should have been denied.
In addition to the public safety risks, the ATF agents tasked with retrievingthe banned weapons from unauthorized gun owners across the country are exposed to potentially dangerous confrontations.
"These are people who shouldn't have weapons in the first place, and it just takes one to do something that could have tragic consequences," said David Chipman, a former ATF official who helped oversee the firearm retrieval program. "You don't want ATF to stand for 'after the fact.'"
Chipman, now a senior policy adviser for the Giffords Law Center which advocates for more gun restrictions, called the retrieval process "uniquely dangerous." "They are very aware of the inherent risk to law enforcement officers when they (seek) a firearm retrieval,"
ya think?
Yet in 2004, the Justice Department's inspector general found that the ATF's retrieval efforts were plagued by staffing shortages, technological inefficiencies and a general lack of urgency that resulted in recovery delays of up to a year.
"ATF agents did not consider most of the prohibited persons who had obtained guns to be dangerous and therefore did not consider it a priority to retrieve the firearm promptly,'' report concluded.
if the ATF didn't consider them dangerous, maybe they shouldn't be confiscating them. hmm...
can you imagine buying a gun and then a year later having an ATF swat team show up to confiscate it? presumably without compensation. though the article doesn't mention it, one imagines they would have some sort of search warrant and confiscate all the guns they find, not just the one on the NICS check.
I'm a little surprised they didn't get shot at a few times during the obama admin.