Dems Want Patel Removed at ATF; Gun Group Asks ‘What Are They Afraid Of?’
(AmmoLand) – After a group of 14 anti-gun-rights Democrats sent a letter to President Donald Trump calling for the removal of Kash Patel as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a major national gun rights group is suggesting they “pound sand.”
Democrat House members Mike Thompson, Robin L. Kelly, Dan Goldman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Eric Swalwell, Mike Quigley, Grace Meng, Nikema Williams, Mark Pocan, Emanuel Cleaver, II, Gwen S. Moore, Jennifer L. McClellan, Haley M. Stevens and Rashida Tlaib signed the March 3 letter. Identifying themselves as “members of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force,” they intimated Patel, who now heads the FBI, is “an unqualified partisan” who will “oversee our federal gun violence prevention laws.”
The letter also complains that Patel is “someone without experience fighting crime.”
As noted by The Hill, the Democrats also said, “Since the Biden-era Safer Communities Act passed in a bipartisan manner in 2022, there has been a “historic reduction” in gun violence.”
However, responding to the letter, which was posted on social media, Alan Gottlieb at the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, fired back.
“Apparently,” Gottlieb said, “everybody who signed that letter slept through last year’s stunning revelation that the FBI’s initial report of a 1.7 percent decrease in violent crime from 2021 to 2022 was quietly adjusted to show a 4.5 percent increase. House Oversight…
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