Patel was sworn in Friday as FBI director after winning Senate approval despite Democrats’ concerns about the steadfast Trump ally’s plans to radically overhaul the FBI.

ATF is a separate agency with about 5,500 employees and is responsible for enforcing the nation’s laws around firearms, explosives and arson. Among other things, it’s in charge of licensing federal firearms dealers, tracing guns used in crimes and analyzing intelligence in shooting investigations.

other places outside brick-and-mortar stores.

In an executive order earlier this month, President Donald Trump directed the attorney general to review all actions taken by the Biden administration around firearms “to assess any ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens.”

  • @[email protected]
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    205 hours ago

    FBI and ATF under one roof? Might as well rename it the Department of Overreach.

    😺😺

    • @[email protected]
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      129 minutes ago

      He looks like he trusted a fart but shit himself, you know he just shit himself, you’re asking him if he just shit himself, and he’s telling you he didn’t just shit himself.

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    Throw him in a blender and turn him into automatic transmission fluid. That’s the only kind of ATF he can be any good at.

      • @MegaUltraChicken
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        Well I think we outta cram his ass into some transmission lines to find out. For science.

      • @[email protected]
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        210 hours ago

        He may be a bile sac, but the group glazing is beginning to run no matter how much he tries to blink it out of his eyes. 🙃

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    Jesus Christ, if any of what his wiki page says is true, I wouldn’t hire this guy to be my gardener!

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      Are you kidding? I would absolutely hire this guy to be my gardener.

      (I have recently planted a large crop of Dendrocnide moroides)

  • @HappySkullsplitter
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    Good thing he has that 2 months of somewhat related experience

    He’s gonna need it

  • @PattyMcB
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    SERIOUSLY? I’ll bet this fucker tries to gut 2A, too

    • @FireTower
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      The GOA backs him and given his speech at their conference I’m willing to bet he isn’t keen on doing that.

    • @Arbiter
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      Of course they will, they’ll do it in the name of removing guns from “undocumented immigrants” and “gang members”.

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    311 hours ago

    So do you think he’s going to relax federal gun laws? Then it’ll be up to the states. Or do you think they’ll challenge the states’ laws too?

    Asking for a friend.

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      The speculation I’m hearing is that he can’t legally shut down the ATF but he is in favor of getting rid of anything that would make 2A a privilege instead of a right.