Citizens Need Protection from the Deadliest Government Agency - #2A
How to prevent ATF from targeting innocent Americans … again. Retired senior ATF official plots a course ATF should take.
How to prevent ATF from targeting innocent Americans … again. Retired senior ATF official plots a course ATF should take.
(Lee Williams, The Gun Writer) - Deep inside the hills near Martinsburg, West Virginia, on a government base with incredible security, lies what may be one of the most impressive firearm collections in the entire world. It contains more than 17,000 individual firearms of nearly every type—from Oerlikon cannons, cane guns, internally-suppressed pistols, gold-plated AKs and thousands of machineguns to one or more examples of nearly every model of rifle, pistol and shotgun ever produced. This base houses ATF’s National Tracing Center, and the collection is called the National Reference Gun Vault or simply “The Vault.”
Those who have actually been inside the massive structure—at least the real gun guys—talk about it in hushed tones, for hours. They recall every firearm they saw, touched or picked up and especially those they had never seen before.
In the past, the vault was staffed by a half-dozen armorers most of whom had retired from the U.S. Marine Corps. They bore the title: ATF Firearms Enforcement Officer. Their job was to answer questions from ATF agents in the field. If they didn’t know the answer, they had more than…
