Submitted by Gun Homeowners of America,

In 2021, the Biden Administration introduced a brand new “Zero Tolerance” coverage for revoking the licenses of firearm sellers, often known as Federal Firearms Licensees or “FFLs.” As a part of this new coverage, the ATF lately up to date its “Federal Firearms Administrative Motion Coverage and Procedures.”

Gun Homeowners of America obtained copies of this up to date ATF order, revised below the Biden Administration in January of 2022, together with the prior model that existed below the Trump Administration.

Primarily based on a overview of adjustments in ATF’s coverage, it’s clear that the Biden Administration is looking for to weaponize ATF’s forms towards all the Second Modification business.

Listed here are the ATF’s leaked inner tips for FFL revocation: 

The Biden Administration’s new Zero Tolerance coverage is overly harsh—seemingly deliberately so—on trustworthy gun shops.

Actually, between January and September of 2022, ATF subject workplaces in Charlotte, Columbus, Houston, Louisville, New Orleans, and St. Paul revoked licenses extra ceaselessly than they issued “warning conferences”—a a lot much less extreme penalty that ATF’s personal handbook deems is critical to “assess the FFL’s potential to attain compliance and decide any potential dangers to public security and firearm traceability.”

In different phrases, below the Biden Administration, ATF has modified its focus from regulating the gun business to destroying it by no matter means doable—eliminating entry to firearms by placing as many gun sellers as doable out of enterprise.

Watch: GOA breaks down ATF’s Inner Memos on “Zero Tolerance”

There was no less than a 200% improve in FFL revocations since enactment of ATF’s Zero Tolerance coverage. After all, license revocations are a prolonged course of, and this quantity virtually actually will proceed to extend. Examine Biden’s Zero Tolerance coverage to ATF’s prior coverage:

Zero Tolerance: “ATF will revoke a federal firearms license, absent extraordinary circumstances on preliminary violations.”

Prior Steering: “ATF might revoke a federal firearms license below applicable circumstances based mostly on an preliminary set of violations.

Even worse, ATF is utilizing a historical past of fine conduct and compliance with federal regulation towards FFLs. Below Biden’s Zero Tolerance, now even a historical past of compliance, adopted by a single unintentional mistake, could also be used as proof of a so-called “willful” violation.

So in case you have a historical past of noncompliance, you’re in hassle. Alternatively, in case you have a historical past of compliance, you’re nonetheless in hassle since you ought to have identified higher, and your violations at the moment are suspect of being willful.

After all, there may be one other nefarious function behind the Biden Administration’s Zero Tolerance agenda to get rid of gun shops. When an FFL goes out of enterprise, it’s required to ship each Firearm Transaction Kind (Kind 4473) to the ATF, together with its “certain e-book” and different data.

As of November 2021, ATF has turned 920,664,765 of those data into an unlawful nationwide gun registry. In accordance with ATF, 865,787,086 data already are in an digital format, which Gun Homeowners of America proved to be digital, searchable, and centralized—in violation of federal regulation.

After all, as a result of ATF can not enter a vendor’s data into its registry till the FFL goes out of enterprise, the Biden Administration’s mass license revocation technique permits ATF to increase its nationwide gun registry at an unprecedented charge.

So, why does this matter?

As a result of a Federal Firearms License can now be revoked for first offenses, many nicely intentioned gun shops (and their staff) at the moment are assured to lose their livelihoods if ATF decides to construe an harmless mistake as a “willful” violation.

This hurts not solely the FFL and its staff, but additionally the firearms group by decreasing entry to lawful self-defense instruments and increasing ATF’s unlawful out-of-business gun registration data for the communities previously served by the shop.

The extra FFLs the Biden Administration shuts down, the much less entry Individuals must their Second Modification rights and the extra knowledge the federal authorities will management in regards to the identities of law-abiding gun house owners in every group.

Along with license revocations, ATF’s Zero Tolerance coverage additional demonstrates a disinterest in serving to FFLs turn into compliant, by eradicating notices and utilizing what info ATF does present as proof of intent to violate the company’s quite a few, advanced, and Kafkaesque guidelines.

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