An active-duty member of the US Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on Sunday, according to the Air Force and local authorities.
Lol , as non American I didn’t know about this bureau including alcohol and tobacco.
What an interesting mix of stuff. I mean I had heard of the ATF, but usually related with explosives and firearms which are two things that make sense to be together in a bureau, but I didn’t know and didn’t bother to check what the letters in the name came from.
“The nicest thing you can say about the ATF is that it’s an unserious and unaccountable bureaucracy. Often it’s explicitly contemptible, such as during the Fast-and-Furious gun-walking scandal, and it’s setting up mentally disabled youths to take the fall during gun-and-drug stings. After those abuses of individual rights and public trust, the failings of the National Disposal Branch almost pale by comparison … the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives should be abolished, and its employees sent into the world to seek honest jobs in the private sector, if anybody will have them.”
Lol , as non American I didn’t know about this bureau including alcohol and tobacco.
What an interesting mix of stuff. I mean I had heard of the ATF, but usually related with explosives and firearms which are two things that make sense to be together in a bureau, but I didn’t know and didn’t bother to check what the letters in the name came from.
“The nicest thing you can say about the ATF is that it’s an unserious and unaccountable bureaucracy. Often it’s explicitly contemptible, such as during the Fast-and-Furious gun-walking scandal, and it’s setting up mentally disabled youths to take the fall during gun-and-drug stings. After those abuses of individual rights and public trust, the failings of the National Disposal Branch almost pale by comparison … the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives should be abolished, and its employees sent into the world to seek honest jobs in the private sector, if anybody will have them.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco,_Firearms_and_Explosives