ATF
Reid’s Revelation: U.S. is an ‘Oligarchy’ that Promotes Machine Guns
MSNBC’s foremost gun-hater, Joy Reid, was particularly aggravated by the Supreme Court’s decision that struck down a Trump administration-era ban on bump stocks by the ATF. On Tuesday’s episode of The ReidOut, she invited former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern to denounce the apparent “oligarchy” that they alleged was working behind the scenes to…
New York Times Whines GOP ‘Want to Further Gut the IRS,' Cripple ATF
The New York Times again reliably rides to the defense of overbearing federal government agencies. Reporter Glenn Thrush on Saturday defended the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in “A.T.F., Agency Crucial to Biden’s Gun Plan, Struggles to Push for Reform.” He picked on the bureau’s acting director for being civil at a gun industry convention. Another sob story about an…
CBS Ignores Chipman's Racism at ATF, Lets Him Spew Misinformation
It’s been almost two months since the White House pulled former ATF official David Chipman’s nomination to lead the bureau after he was sunk by evidence of racist actions against black agents during a previous tenure there. Ignoring those facts, CBS Evening News thought Wednesday was the perfect time to have a sit-down interview with Chipman, lament that he wasn’t the director, and…
Nets Skip WH Pulling ATF Nominee After Accusations of Racism Surface
NewsBusters asked and the broadcast networks answered! On Thursday, the Biden administration was forced to pull the nomination of radical gun control activist David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after evidence surfaced that he had targeted black agents with false negative reviews during promotions while at the bureau years ago. As expected, ABC, CBS,…
MSNBC Repeats Myth That 90% of Mexico Guns May Come from U.S.
On Saturday morning's The Cross Connection, MSNBC again showed itself to be the place for misinformation bolstering liberal causes as host Tiffany Cross repeated a disputed statistic claiming that 70 to 90 percent of crimes gun in Mexico are from the United States, thus giving Mexico a rationale to sue gun manufacturers in the U.S.
NY Times Page One Trashes Second Amendment, Worries About Poor ATF
The New York Times gave the full investigative treatment to defend its newest favorite intrusive government agency, the poor, downtrodden Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), in charge of enforcing U.S. gun laws. The investigation made Monday’s front page: “How the Firearms Lobby Hamstrings the A.T.F.” The Second Amendment was left unmentioned in the long…