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  • Ross7

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    A by-product of that "Change We Can[not] Believe In", the previous administration’s failed attempt to reclassify SS-109/M855 ammo as armor-piercing.

    Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the agency failed to respond to a May 14, 2018, FOIA request for the 1,900 documents about the Obama administration’s AR-15 ammo ban efforts. The documents include ATF talking points about the “Armor Piercing Ammunition Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” and other records discussing ammunition classification.

    “Simply put, the ATF refuses to comply with federal open records law,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “The ATF has withheld records for over three years concerning the Obama administration’s shady attempt to institute gun control by restricting ammunition instead of guns.”

    Judicial Watch Sues ATF for Records About Obama Administration Attempt to Restrict AR-15 Ammunition
     

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    The ATF is no different than any other government entity or any other human for that matter. The ball is going to get dropped, and when it does somebody is always wanting a payday for it. Let’s say they win and get some coin out of the deal. What will they do with said funds? Is it going to help anyone other than themselves?
     

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    I'm not a lawyer but it'd appear that the only "coin" Judicial Watch is looking for is "attorneys' fees and other litigation costs reasonably incurred in the action".

    The "win" here would be the release of the records. Dropped balls shouldn't take 3 years to pick up... but it is the ATF/GOV we're talking about. It's always someone else's job and they're not going to break their necks to give up information that makes them look like dipshidiots.
     

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    Right on !!! We already know about the corruption in the IRS, FBI, EPA and DOJ, what makes us think all the rest of the alphabet agencies aren't just as corrupt, case in point with the AFT.

    Glenn Beck warned us years ago the congress would become irrelevant, and now all the unelected bureaucrats are thumbing their noses at it and the President. I sure hope we caught this in time to put and end to this shadow government.

    Rick
     

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    Govt agencies...unelected; create rules, policy and guidelines. The measure/audit/inspect for adherence; levy fines, collect the money, act as judge/jury/executioner and maybe most disturbing of all they preside over most of their own appeals....something very wrong with that and unless you run afoul of the EPA, IRS, OSHA, DOJ, FBI, ATF etc etc you would not know it. Talk to anyone tangled up/entrapped in the web of one of those agencies and you will find that you can appeal, but the appeal is heard by the agency usually. The only way to fight one of the agencies is to get the topic out of their hands, and I assure you that this is not as easy as it sounds...sometimes impossible and the legal fees and costs are prohibitive to the average citizen.

    These agencies are made of individuals and the individuals can be, are often partisan and not impartial. The agencies start with a "noble" charter but morph into an entity that extincts for their own ends. Govt agencies do not go away...the exist in perpetuity unless abolished and that doesn't happen often if at all.
     
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