JUST IN: Jim Jordan Leads Fiery Hearing In Which ATF Director Testifies Before Judiciary Committee
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- ATF Director Steven Dettelbach faces the House Judiciary Committee.
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I have never heard of the ATF going into Chicago or any other city to remove glock switches from known gang members.
Ohh heck I would love a video of that happening
Just like New Orleans after hurricane Katrina in 2005, they went after the middle & upper class white hard working, law abiding citizens with guns!! They did not go into the ghetto black neighborhoods to grab guns!!
They probably provided them the glocks in the 1st place . There are persistent reports of crates of guns showing up in inner cities like Chicago. Or trains strategically stop in yards and the gangbangers are somehow told which cars have the guns come on and they disappear
I myself spoke to a couple of law enforcement investigators who were touring the country talking about the drug running into Mena,, Arkansas, when Clinton was governor, and they also were saying they were providing not just cocaine but weapons to the gangs, like the crips and bloods. That was a CIA operation and it was in several States, not just Arkansas. Reagan was supposedly president, but Bush was in charge.
If they are not elected officials, then I do not see how this is LEGAL!! The Constitution allows for the paths in which laws are to be enacted. The ATF does not have the jurisdiction, period!! They and all of the alphabet agencies have gone ROGUE!!
You want to stop crime , try prosecuting the repeat criminals rather than demonizing legal gun owners
The only ones demonizing people are right wing nut conservatives, that care more about their right to own child murdering weapons, than the child murder victims right to live.
You stop any crime lately?
@@skeetorkiftwon have you?
@@skeetorkiftwon 367 people are responsible for MOST of the shoplifting in NYC. They collectively have been arrested THOUSANDS OF TIME! If the prosecutors would put them in prison instead of catch and release there would be substantially less shoplifting in NYC. Point is prosecutors do their job these things wouldn't be an issue
Simply make using a gun in a felony a MANDATORY additional 10 year sentence.
If you can't keep guns away from felons, keep felons away from guns.
This guy is proving to the Country that the ATF deserves no more money to be issued by Congress!!!
ATF, NSA, DOJ, FBI, USBP, any three letters, all arms of Team Blue and will never be de-funded. We are just serfs.
Did you watch this video? The ATF has countless agents stationed with law enforcement to keep people safe. Are you also in favor of defunding the police? So much for the party of law and order.
Prefer agencies with competence and w/o corruption or political deference. I know: "picky, picky, picky".
Only if you believe him and according to the comments very few do myself included.
@@jp12069we don’t want to defund the police, we want to defund tyrannical federal agencies that think they have the power to make laws and attached cruel and unusual punishments to them.
Jim jordan is an animal and it is a blessing to have him in that seat, he stands for the American as a true American
I wish we had more fighters in he Republicans Congress like Jim
As a black man, I couldn’t help but notice the overwhelmingly disparity in how each government official presented their questions. Specifically, the black ones. Do we really talk like that? 😂😂😂 All of that excessive voice inflection and aggression? Jesus, I cringed every time someone who looked like me spoke! 😂
Someone told me the other day that I “sound monotone.” I’ll take that as a compliment after listening to this! 😂😂😂
Oh, and I will NOT be giving up my guns or bending to these goofs who think taking guns from those of us who acquired them legally will solve anything! I was born here, spent 11-years in the Marines, and did what I needed to in Afghanistan. I fought for my right to carry, and for the other law abiding citizens of this country to exercise their 2A right as well!
I feel for you. It is difficult to keep going foraward when so many are trying to stay in the past.
I want to say a very sincere "Thank you for your service"
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Thank you for you service
Thank you for your service, and your God given common sense!
Criminal behavior WILL NEVER BE STOPPED BY INFRINGING CIVILIZED LAW ABIDING CITIZENS RIGHTS
Why doesn't that make sense to more people ?
Because common sense is dead these days! A huge majority of people are stupid and don't have critical thinking abilities. It's just sad... 🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼
Exactly!
@@starman4913 You're right he should be !!! For permitting Biden to take off office. Along with all those doing he's thinking. But I know there is a plan in the works bigger than Trump. That's why Biden was allowed to be the resident in charge.
@Star Man I love David Bowie! Hi David Bowie!
I've always found it interesting that the only people trying to ban firearms are the ones who have never fired one in their life.
That is pure unadulterated proof. It’s those that never spent any time around firearms should made to take firearms classes.
They know when shtf they're all fodder and they don't like that feeling.
Red flag laws are kinda wild, because the idea is sort of like having your license revoked because you MIGHT drink and drive. Even if you promise not to
Red flag laws are issued by non-partisan experienced judges and require a petition that must be reviewed and approved. If someone in your life goes through all the trouble of filling out a petition and bringing it to a judge, you've probably already proven you shouldn't have a firearm. Also, FYI, a petition isn't required to get your license revoked. It's apples and oranges and if you can't see that, I'd recommend researching red flag laws and license revocation. 😂
@@jp12069 I'd recommend not giving opinions about firearms when you've never held a firearm in your entire life.
Non partisan judges: 😂
Good as their logic!💪🙏🇺🇸
@jp12069 You are assuming a lot. As corrupt as the politicians are today its obvious the the Alphabet agency's have already been weaponized against political opponents and parents who attend school board meeting. Our Tyrannical government wants to be like Russia, China, Japan and most other countries who can't back against a Tyrannical governments.
If you give them an inch, they take a light year. Shall not be infringed.
Ain’t that the truth. I find it hilarious when Democrats blame American gun manufacturers for the guns in South America, when it wasn’t the gun manufacturers selling them to the cartel, it was the American GOVERNMENT. Or when Democrats blame guns for the actions of its user, the only inanimate object to catch that kind of blame. We don’t blame Cutco when someone stabs someone else with their knives, we don’t blame Ford when a psyco runs people over with their trucks, yet we blame the gun instead of the criminal. Or when Democrats demagogue about child safety when we could fix that TOMORROW by putting armed guards at every school in the country, but Democrats refuse to do that, because they NEED these tragedies to push their radical agenda.
The newest one is their big lie about “guns being the leading cause of death of children”, when even the leftist fact checking Corp SNOPES is forced to admit that the study is bogus. It only works if the age range used is 1-19 years old. If the cap is 17, excluding 18-19 year old ADULTS, car accidents are still the leading cause. If the cap is (I think) 10, then drowning, car crashes, OD’s and more are the leading cause.
But the Democrat cult doesn’t want to talk about WHY. WHY 17-19 year old are shooting each other, which is GANG VIOLENCE. Can’t talk about that, no, it’s the GUN’s fault... clowns. Authoritarian clowns, the lot of em.
If you give them a millimeter they'll take 455 Galactica light years and magically claim they're somehow justified
@@cdistasioyou cannot claim your are a law enforcement agency and change the rules... you enforce you do not change you dont get to make new or different policy changes to enforce upon the people, if the police could change how they enforce certain rules there would be people dead left and right atf might as well just stand for a tyrannical force at this point.
@@thatdudecole1245 The more voluminous the laws the more corrupt the government. Thomas Jefferson once said that those who want to be ignorant and free want something that never was nor never could be
ATF wants you to secure your firearms, but can't secure the ones they have in their possession.
Quality 👍
They can try
They probably handed those firearms over to Antifa.
Exactly
not only that; they 'lost' fire arms, meaning the agents just walked away with them . In other words, stole them.
This is chilling. This is how atrocities get committed. You hand down a list of enforcements based on bureaucracy and it's blindly enforced.
My brothers have been using rifles (they hunt) and handguns SAFELY since they were 12-years-old. We lived in a rural area without nearby police. Dad had to protect the family while working 10-12 hour days. My brothers are now 71-years-old and have NEVER had a mishap while using guns. People kill; guns do not kill.
Congress should remove the rule making ability from the ATF. The ATF has shown that they cannot make good decisions and thus should not have the ability to make rules to limit legal & law abiding Americans.
Agree, especially since the "director" evidently can't tell a pistol from a long rifle..
@@oilsmokejones3452 my thing is why do all these triator get to hold hearing
Maybe review global statistics on gun crime to see if u are restricted ...it's still the wild west out there
@@oilsmokejones3452 that's so important....like Gym cudnt tell the difference between a paedo and a coworker
Not only that the director has ran for office on the premise of gun confiscation in the past.
Abolish ATF!
ABOLISH THIS GOVERMENT! SET TERM LIMITS! GET RID OF LOBBIEST!
Kook
Small agency, with big agenda , abolish guns from law abiding citizens, .. why??? Threat to Marxists and Marxism!!
@@patland1762 Well thought out. You must be an intellectual giant.
@@ShiggyMiyamo Well name thrower, do you have anything intelligent to say?
Love how you keep us informed
You have to laugh at the irony of a politician arguing with a bureaucrat about getting a yes/no straight answer. I guess a dose of your own medicine is pretty hard to swallow.
The fact that congress has abdicated and delegated its authority to make law to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats is shameful and should never have been done
Besides that, it is against the constitution for them to do so. The ATF and FBI should be abolished and the agents that belive in our constitution should be hired by constitutional police forces like DHS and ICE.
Every 3 letter agency
Facts!
All enabling legislation should be immediately repealed. If the members of Congress are unwilling to vote for something, it should never have power of law.
And while we're at it, remove the power to issue executive orders from the presidency.
The only way anything from the federal government should have the power of law is if it actually is a law.
Nadler needs to be deported to Talmudistan and be charged with crimes against the American Republic.
How can you be in charge of a department that’s main subject is firearms and not know anything about firearms and tasers?
Or any of the other branches
They are token hires and it’s going to have devastating impact .
How can you drive a car and not be a mechanic? Your question is silly. There is no need for a department head to be an expert in the details.
@@keithanthony974 those boots must taste nice
Well if Gym Jordan can be head of the House INTELLIGENCE Committee, then anything seems possible 🤦♀️
Excellent content! The gaslighting is absolutely outrageous whenever OUR or Ballard are questioned or scrutinized or when facts are presented that don't align with a particular narrative. It's very clear what's going on here. Ty so much!!
Ill go ahead and repeat the old joke my grandpa used to say;
"The atf should only be the name of a convenience store" 😂 I still love when I hear this joke, because it is so true ❤
I've been to that store, it's called Frontier liquior in Fallon Nevada.
Mark Twain said it best.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."
Makes you wonder if he knew Nadlers grand parents... "they say the apple doesnt fall far from the tree" or in nadlers case, "the piece of crap doesnt fall far from the a-hole"
AInt that the damn truth!!
😂nadler is an enemy of the country
Words of wisdom. Even when im 100 yrs old ill still have more too learn , explore ,and will always pray to keep common sense. I will never be closed minded. But i will not except evil in anyway.
@Frank well said sir!😂
We didnt ever elect ATF🤔🤨 and they were not elelced to make laws or rules. Who do they think they are to be able to make rules🤔 Rules are not laws‼️
They are the DEMOCRACY!
Which has nothing to do with Representative Republic. That this once great nation use to be.
A corrupt congress did..
It is illegal for them to make laws, only congress can make laws
@@PoEisLife they are a pointless agency that has overstepped their jurisdiction on many occasions, they should be disbanded immediately
None of Trump's heroes, role models, like Kim Jong Un, Stalin, Lenin, Sadam, Hitler and recently Putin were elected. Trump lost twice. Please don't speak.
my man MATT GAETZ FTW! get em Matt, we the people vote to abolish the ATF!
Does anyone actually think making something illegal will cause criminals not to do it?
These illegal laws established as regulations must be adjudicated by the courts. I'm glad Jim Jorden is standing up for Congress. These unelected bureaucrats are taking over and this has to stop!
Gym Jordan didnt care about his students getting raped I doubt he cares about anything else.
Gym Jordan is standing up for the NRA who funds him. Make no mistake. No politician on the Right gives a d@mn about your safety and rights.
@@jefft5152 It sounds like you have proof that "No politician on the right" and I have to assume that you would also then include ALL politicians on the left from crime-ridden cities that don't give "a d@mn about your safety and rights."
@jefft5152 nor on the left
All gun laws are unconstitutional
And every time one of these tragedies happen the democrats will entertain no other solutions but gun bans
No politician right or left cares about our safety
So it's better to be self reliant and armed
So by your flawed logic anyone working in an agency is a bureaucrat and you believe each of the hundreds of thousands of emplyees in these agencies must be elected. The maga kooks already lie about "stolen elections" and now you would like us to vote on every job vacancy and existing job holder in every govenment agency. Brilliant idea Fido.
Corruption at highest level!!!👿😈😡🤬👺🔥💩🤡🤯
al off them republicans, specially the expresiden ·45
I agree with you, but your adolescent emojis don't further your argument
Biden?
Listening to Nadler is a crime against my ears.
I don't like one little bit how these people can't answer a simple question, especially if it's a yes/no question.
Did Congress write the law pursuant to the Constitution? If it's not pursuant to Constitution then the law is null and void. And it's not the Law of the land.
Then Its not the Law Americans need not follow
If it's coming out of D. C. And the people have not ALL VOTED ON IT, IT DOESN'T EXIST TO WE THE PEOPLE ANYWAY 😂🤣💯
Land in the constitution is federal land. I have no hope so long as Americans don't understand that the Northwest Territorial Ordnance and Constitution are federal law for federal territory. Empty skulls really don't deserve to be armed. They would never even know what to fight for.
Really?
The constitution doesn't say anything about nuclear weapons so I guess the law which bans you from having nuclear weapons isn't the law and every patriot should have at least one strategic nuclear weapon for home defence and perhaps an open carry battlefield nuke for personal protection.
Of course that means that instead of killing a few dozen kids in school your dysfunctional progeny will simply nuke the entire county but that's fine with you becaue the second amendment is clear "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".
Nukes are arms, banning nukes is a law which is not compatible with the constitution.
Jim Jordan would let us have nukes if he were President. He's a real patriot, who would allow Americans to deconstruct each other and irradiate North America for the next thousand years IJN.
Hello 👋
Excellent job by the thr director of the ATF, dodged every fxckin' important questions and show the American people how unreliable their government is. Great work!
Question should be asked of every Democrat. Do you love America. Because they are the only ones who can purge under oath. Truth is not spoken by the ObamaBiden democracy
I would have found him in contempt for not answering the questions
We The People
If the ATF ever accomplished anything we would support them! Gov…get out of our lives!
David Halseth
Amen to that!
One addendum to the 1934 firearms act- The $200 tax that we have today on NFA items (SBRs, suppressors, machine guns etc.) was ALSO $200 in 1934! That was probably close to $10,000 in today’s money. It was absolutely a shady and prohibitive tax back then and it’s clear that the ATF is still trying to be prohibitive and absurd 90 years later
their only accomplishment has been harassing and violating the rights of law abiding citizens.
@@douglasscovil3447 exactly. How hard is their logic to follow? If criminals break laws, how many laws do we need to make to stop them from breaking laws? It's such an insane thought to follow.
The ATF director literally just said that removing the brace doesn't affect the function of the weapon .... Huuuuhhhh 🤔
Yeh he did and last time i check you still need to pull the trigger for it to do a damn thing.
He said he fired a rifle with a bump stock too. “It’s impossible to single tap it, you will always fire multiple rounds unintentionally while using a bump stock.” By that logic, doesn’t that accessory make the gun WORSE?!
Bro…..it’s not supposed to make sense. They don’t care that they are wrong or nonsensical. They just want you to lick the boot and comply like a good bot.
We work all the time, shoulder to shoulder, with local law enforcement…….in order to shoot lawful dogs.
This is such awful theater, the only thing about governmentll that's good is it can be overthrown according to history.
He had trouble answering simple questions. Wow!
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
George Washington
Any law enforcement agency that relentlessly breaks the law should be abolished.
I'm not sure if Americans know that compared to other cultures they are extremely uptight and take everything to the extreme needlessly
@Australian Jackaroo I hear ya, but the America I grew up in was truly incredible. I was the youngest of 4 in a single parent household that belonged to a very small community just above the poverty line. To be honest, I don't feel like we are reacting extreme enough, there should be a lot more passionate outrage to end the careers of these tyrants and reduce government agency employment that have slowly eaten away our freedoms. Perhaps Australia is more complicit due to gun laws, maybe citizen on citizen crime is lower. But I'm not sure defenselessness against the government is in any way better. Not that you implied anything of the sort, but without extreme retaliation we will fall.
@@australianjackaroo6660 yes we know most people incarcerated are there for not paying fines....
If the left would let law enforcement do their jobs without always speaking in defense of criminals, we would have far fewer problems with gun violence. We have over 100k Fentynal overdose deaths each year which is a far more serious problem and yet the left doesn't want to address that.
We also have zero representation when it comes to the enter workings of the atf....why the hell should they get are tax money
The problem is the person behind the gun,authorities including!
PLEASE, make a new law that says, “Anyone that is testifying or being investigated while under oath, if asked a direct yes or no question by a sitting member of government, MUST respond with either a “YES, “NO”, or “I don’t know”, otherwise be charged with “Evasion” and “Intent to obstruct a legal investigation” which qualifies as treason and will thus be jailed for up to 180 days and fined up to 10% of their total existing assets at the time of infringement.”
If you want ANYONE these days to answer your questions the way you want them to be answered, you’re gonna have to put something like that in place that deters them from spewing out bs to avoid answering the question directly.
👏👏👏💯
Great, if you still believe these people give a care about us. To me, its clearly theatre on both “sides”. I believe the only reason why they have these dueling sides is to make sure both citizens’ demographics are represented and will therefore tune in. I think they are all on the same team 🤷♀️
@@WELLHELLOMISSAMANDA Sorry, but if you think that both sides don’t care then you’ve gotten lost. I’ll admit, considering how much BS and corruption has been going on, it’s hard to tell who is fighting for good and who isn’t, but Jim Jordan 100% is fighting for good, fighting for us, and fighting for the country and he represents a particular side.
While yes, there are individuals on both sides that are up to no good, it’s only Conservatives who are fighting, at all, for good.
Again, if you don’t believe that then I have to assume that you’re not someone who has been paying very close attention to politics or even the modern culture war. A lot of people don’t, so I can’t blame you if that’s the case, but for those who do pay attention, it’s clear as day who is on our side and who isn’t, and right now, the Liberals, Democrats, Leftists, Antifa, BLM, and most of the uneducated dumb people (as opposed to uneducated intelligent folk) are all on the Left. The Blue team. The Democrats.
The team that cheats to steal power, who will lie to steal power, who will oppress and even kill all in the name of gaining power.
And the team that fights for good, have allowed it to happen, sitting back thinking foolishly that good will prevail in the end. No. We have to unite, stand up, and fight or else they will stomp al over us. People are finally waking up from this “woke” insanity that so many have been brainwashed with, and people are finally starting to see how evil the Blue team is. How they want to sexualize and mutilate children, how they want to let pedophiles, murdered, and rapists out of jail. How they was lawlessness. How they want drugs and sex traffickers to pour into our country freely across our borders, where other countries are releasing all their prisoners, and allowing them to migrate into our country because keeping them is too much of a financial burden on them and we’re not checking any one of them.
Over 100,000 people die from Fentanyl and other opiates per year and it’s mostly coming over the southern border, but one side does give a damn. In fact, not only did they cheat to get power, but they give such little shit that they filled the two most powerful and important positions in the world, with a senile old man, and a woman who runs away from her job and doesn’t show up for work, almost ever. Bravo. Put the most powerful country int the world in the hands of people that literally have done nothing but harm.
If you can’t see that they need to be stopped, and that it’s not just political theatre, you’re delusional like the rest of em. Wake up!
@GT Base Deflective dellusionism. Gym Jordan should have.been busted in Ohio or participating in J6 !!
That would violate a whole lotta Constitutional protections. But nice try, tho.
The ATF needs to be dismantled and these government agencies need to be held accountable.Every time I watch a oversight committee hearing I'm just blown away at the incompetence of government officials and yet they continue to be free and keep their jobs.
Totally agree
We don't need ATF man
Same here...I'm amazed at how human beings can just expel hot air and believe their own rhetoric.
Dettelbach literally knows nothing about firearms! How on earth is he their director ….making these “rules” that don’t go through Congress??
They are not incompetent they are evil the oops is a cover its ontentional destruction.
How can you tell an agency from an Assault Agency? Intentions and actions.
how many of these people would die if lying would kill you.
Cant help but notice that he talks circles around the questions from one side of the aisle and directly answers the questions from the opposite side ......
Where was the ATF when hunter lied on the paperwork he filed for a firearm he purchased?
He is asked about that
Shouldn't you bring up George Soros too?
How many top secret documents did Trump steal, then lie about or deny having?
He refused to answer that question
@@ronmac1832 Soros is responsible for more dead Jews than any KKK member. Let that sink in.
The gentleman in the back touching his lip, reminds me of Robert De Niro 😂
We the People , demand the arrest of Dettlebach , and that the ATF be shut down all together !
It's almost like he's been told to waste as much time as possible with people who want the brace, and clearly answer people who agree with the rule...
Exactly what THEY do
Yes they have been coached to do this by the left ! If they can use up the time without answering their questions they get more bromine point with Joe!!!!
Spoiler alert: While he’s sitting here talking about the forbidden plastic, thousands of his contraband guns are getting stolen 😮 gg, well played 👍
Nadler is in the top ten of the biggest jokes ever played on America.
He reminds me of Batman's Penquin. 9:29
Cicillini is also an unbelievable ignoramus. He asks what republicans are willing to do to prevent (gun) violence. Well, good and decent individuals are not only willing to confront liberty hating authoritarian leftists about their lust to infringe on the law abiding liberty loving patriotic American, we're also willing to confront liberty hating authoritarian leftists about their unbelievably disgusting and dangerous habit of releasing and refusing to prosecute violent criminals that is part of their general behavior of refusing to enforce the law(unless it is to persecute their political opposition). I have yet to hear even one single individual who can explain the thought process of how confiscating firearms from the law abiding will prevent evil individuals from committing evil acts. Part of the reason violent crime is so bad is because the entire country suffered through tens of thousands of violent criminals terrorizing the entire country for over a year straight, all while democrats not only did virtually but actually cheered and applauded and bailed them out and facilitated the countrywide wholesale wanton violence they supported. Perpetrating what democrats are advocating for I like trying to mitigate drunk driving by taking cars from sober individuals, while doing almost nothing about actual drunk drivers. These obviously are not patriotic Americans at heart that love the second amendment, they're liberty hating authoritarian leftists that want to release and refuse to prosecute violent criminals while persecuting good and decent individuals for having a piece of plastic on a small caliber rifle.
He keeps getting re-elected by the voters in New York. If he's a joke, then so are the people who keep re-electing him.
He needs to sit still! Drive me crazy when someone does that.
@Pocket Square I will trust it when we go back to same day voting, paper ballots only, photo ID, and impartial scrutineers at the polling stations.
We need protection from the ATF. They do not have the authority to make laws. Congress does. So do we have to abide by this or not?
And I'll take it a step further. Does Congress have the authority to overrule the Constitution? The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed apparently is a phrase that is very confusing to government officials. They love to say what arms we can and cannot have
Interesting because the Commonwealth’s have had these exact laws on their books since 2017 or before!
If the 2nd was written to keep the government in check and to stop it becoming tyrannical then infringing on the 2nd in any way makes the government tyrannical by default.
No but it does make the ATF tyrannical by default. Removing letter agencies should be priority number one
Yet they are only used for killing children in their classrooms.
Perfectly stated
@@therealnynetynyne360 how no? Unless criminals. Infringement is pretty crystal and clearly stated.
@@therealnynetynyne360 you mean FEMA rule?
Stop with the hearing already, enough proof start making arrests
Facts are different than degrading the false information presented as facts but in fact are not the real picture therefore ,
questions are asked to bring out the TRUTH
He suddenly knows every answer with no stutter when his side is asking the questions. Def not rehearsed.
Funny how he talks about the trigger pullers but those are the people being set free.
And criminalizing law abiding citizens
Name 1.
@@manhandler There are lists of thousands that you can find very easily. People released on parole for murder only to do it again. Research it. You will find long lists as well as news stories.
@@manhandler Darrius Sutton, William Tolliver, Darrel Brooks. All released on either no or meagre bond for firearm related crimes and would go on to commit heinous acts almost immediately following release.
@@johnnydjiurkopff Thank you for shutting that clown up. It's amazing how many people we have in our country, that are unwilling to look things up, and want to run around acting ignorant, over their ideology.
Gave him the questions ahead of time; just like old Joe!
When he said people are printing them on 3d printers…..
Glory to the printbros
Do they understand that none of their laws will stop any of the criminals out here and no matter what goes on in the country the 2nd amendment shall not be infringed upon.
They know criminals do not obey gun laws. Every law and regulation is specifically targeted at law abiding, apple pie eating, baseball watching , red white and blue Patriot. The commies and global socialists do not want us to be able to protect ourselves from them.
Nope.
Oh, they understand.
They don’t care.
It isn’t about “making people safer”, it’s about disarming the population.
They are the criminals. Laws mean nothing, for them it looks good. They sure as hell don't follow them.
How can they ban assault weapons that they have no definition for????
Sen. John Kennedy pressed David Chipman on his (Chipman's) definition of an "assault weapon" during Chipman's confirmation hearings. Chipman stammered and stuttered and circumlocuted, and never could give a clear response.
Especially with my rifle identifies as a squirt gun lol
AR is considered air light vs. The old wood heavy 22 rifles , I could get an AK 47, or 308 300 mag or a pistol 44 magnum. Their purpose is to take our guns.
The same way they did before in their assault weapons ban
Mike Garrison - any gun and rifle with an automatic reloading function and or a magazine should not be available to the public
1:17:50 Miss Boxcellarbug Jayapal, I would like to point out that this is probably happening because of operation fast and furious, not because American citizens are giving them away to the cartel or because we need more restrictions and less firearms.
Yes we stick with the forefathers...stop the harassment and spread love and mind your business...if your put in a position to save a life... thanks Your now heroic..
How have our leaders become this dense?
If they were serious about solving crime they wouldn’t be trying to remove guns from the law abiding.
Exactly!
You have no leaders
Because gun control is not about solving crime or making people safer. It's about the government having complete control of it's populace.
Wait, wait...who gets to say who is a law abiding citizen. Most people are UNTIL they quite abiding the law and decide to commit mass murder! Who is "dense" it the person making such a thoughtless statement.
It is so sad that these inept departments have torn our country apart.
Where does the US constitution Grant any authority to create a bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms? Especially when it's major activity nowadays seems to be trying to police the possession and use of firearms which is inherently UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Why not repeal taxation of firearms (and tobacco while you're at it) and abolish If this organization rather than just complaining about it?
they are not protecting us they are taking our rights from us.
never seen or heard these people anywhere
the person killed them the gun didn't kill them
it will nor stop bad people from. killing .bad people steal and loot will get it anyway
wY
Define the atf fbi doj an congress itself unless they do exactly what we say.
DISBAND the ATF we no longer need this agency and its functions are already handled by other agencys. DEFUND and FIRE THIS bureaucratic
That’s a wonderful speech Lumpy… too bad none of what you said is what you are doing. When was the last time you actually arrested a criminal?
What's really wrong with this is that the ATF is claiming that they were delegated this task by Congress when Congress is not authorized to pass any laws concerning this
True, Constiturional Law.
Protect schools w better buildings and ON SITE Security. All that ATF money can go to secure Schools and Borders and Prisons.
We do NOT need ATF to Prosecute illegal weapons. PORK.
If you think Anti gun Laws will stop school and mass shooting, you do NOT know Criminal minds and mentally ill motivations. Yes, look at groups of people who cannot have gun license, like Driver Licesnses are regulated.
How dare y'all pont at Trump fight on crime, including border control and bolstering Local Police. Point at Obama and Biden funneling Billions to USA enemies as well as leaving a HUGE military Arsinal including Tanks, Helicopters and American Citizens we have never heard from again. All these gifts have been OPPOSED by WE The American Legal VOTERS. The one-sided skewed facts Lefties purport are so OBVIOUSLY masking Clinton, Obama and Biden CRIMES against WE The American People.Trump loered crime, raised ecconomy and held strong negotiations FOR a STRONG America. Trump will do MORE FOR WE The American Voters.
Years ago, I read something written by a former ATF agent. It was a long time ago, but one thing that stuck was his comments about the attitudes in the agency towards firearms. He was a firearms enthusiast and was well-schooled in the subject, but his fellow agents were by and large extremely ignorant. He said he got clowned for being a 'gun nut', but whenever they needed his weapons knowledge they were quick to come to him. That was when I realized the ATF was incompetent, and they've proven that 6 ways to Sunday over the years.
Well I hope they get more funding to hire better people!
@@jefft5152 It's more of a problem with the culture of the agency. Give them more funding, they'll just hire more terrible people
Fauci, what does he have anything to do with our 2nd Amendment?
@@jefft5152 Money isn't always the answer, especially with this current administration, that should be obvious by now.
@@savannah505 FALSE, cutting funding and regulations isn't the answer based on the previous administration.
Message received, I'll be more tactfully with my criticism
Thies Must Stop...!!!NOW
As a side note, the US Supreme Court has ruled that OUR SAFETY is not the job of law enforcement
The SCOTUS has been a joke for a long time.
The second amendment right to bear arms is plainly stated and, contrary to the OPINION of democrats, is couched in the terms of national defense.
Meaning YES our founding fathers did mean weapons of war when they wrote the second amendment.
Hell the only scope of weapons they didn't foresee were nukes and apocalyptic bio warfare.
F you see. Kay the atf !!!
Self Protection is a "God Given" Right !!!
@@williamcollins4082 Bro's out here with a 18th century Philosophy of Law. Get your humors in order!
@@GreyKnight7777 I lost my sense of humor a long time ago !!!
Got popcorn n soda ready for the Show !!!
who are these people who get to decide how we live!!!!!! who gave them this power. who break their own laws but come after us.
That is Russia posting that remark folks.
Bigo Mr. Johnson, finally a sane point
Was worth watching just to see Hank Johnson make a fool of himself. He never fails to entertain. 😅😅😅
NEVER willing to answer one single direct question . The ATF MUST GO , defund them now and defend our Constitution .
Who ever passed the law without congress should be fired and prosecuted. And they should find out who told them to do it.
Congress, Congress told them
exactly, law enforcement umm enforces LAWS
Courts rule on law
How are citizens being held liable for rules and policies?
@@howitstartsmm and CONGRESS CREATES and CHANGES laws!
As a citizen broke the LAW and being granted authority and resources to imprison those the standard for sentencing should reflect that privilege of authority!?
So, I'm the only American in this thread...
Well. Yall have fun
fiery speeches will help us...thank you for your sacrifice and helping us who elected you.
This guy is full of it!
Congress makes the rules, not government agencies
Not in Brandon's illegitimate and incompetent clown show
Humph. Doesn’t look that way.😊
Congress does not have the legal right to delegate authority to any agency and people better start suing. And making Congress do their jobs.
If they are not elected officials, then I do not see how this is LEGAL!! The Constitution allows for the paths in which laws are to be enacted. The ATF does not have the jurisdiction, period!! They and all of the alphabet agencies have gone ROGUE!!
@@cjbanksful Nor does the Senate!! And yet, that is what this leftist majority in the Senate has done!! Nadler is an 🫏!!
I love it when "our representatives" justify the current constitutional violation by pointing to other constitutional violations they've made.
How do I get in touch with the doctor to order? From whose nickname is doctor purple? Doctor poop.
Apparently the more "Wrongs" shoved down your throat make you think it's Right !!!
@@williamcollins4082 it's proven if you keep telling a lie people will believe it as truth.
Another one that holds true.
A lie will travel around the world twice before the truth will leave the city.
@@warpedone4963 one small issue .
I don't believe a single word !!!
I hold to the Missouri motto. "SHOW ME" !!!
5lbs of crap in a 3lb bag; the ATF is a criminal parasitic entity specifically designed as foremost the muscle to intimidate anyone daring to challenge whatever the most recent illegal revenue stream the feds cook up to bleed the rank and file citizen. They couldn't care less whether "we" are killing each other as long as there's always a constant and direct invasion of privacy in order for the "powers that be" to suppress any potential challenge to their gangster supremacy.
ATF to Me says I don't have to Watch My back in New York City.
It took me a few minutes to recognize Steve Cohen without his bucket of chicken . Greaseball
The nothing answers of every bureaucrat in this country is a gigantic waste of time n money
Amazing that we pay for our oppression eh?
Sorry brad seems like your smart cant have that
They need to pass a law were it's a crime for members of congress to lie to the American people knowing their lying. Anyone who serves the the public and lies knowing its a lie should go to jail. It's not a game when the country/people is/are being destroyed PERIOD
The punishment should be immediate removal, lifetime ban on any position in state/federal government, immediate investigation both criminal and financial with any money found to be out of order taken, and then have their asses canned in public and on live tv in every state, country, and language. Watch how fast this type sht stops, I know I tightened up when Grandma took that switch to our asses.
Why only jail for such an offense? At a minimum, jail and asset forfeiture and in some cases, public execution would be appropriate.
Yeah, and how about the President and his department heads?
@@Sevatar_VIIIth or took you by the arm to apologize for an infraction? 😂
@@donnagarner6007 my aunt used to get us with that Vulkan neck grip when me and my cousins would start wild'in acting an ass in the store. Never failed....
What about “Congress shall pass no “ex-post-facto” law? If Congress does not have that authority, then it cannot delegate it to an agency!
Why do you love guns ❓
Your founding fathers were mason's
and your constitution is under British and French protocol
True, but Marxists are not interested in legal niceties.
I believe you're confusing THE LAW with those willing to ENFORCE IT...
This guy is a great human being.
Great job Stephen... :)
The question they should be asking the ATF is where are all the guns that went missing that were in their possession
Are you suggesting the ATF is shady? How dare you sir!?
Boating accident?
Sold back to the cartels by corrupt officers.
They should be asking them what they want for their last meals before they are all given lethal injections for their crimes against Americans.
@@michaelmonceaux2107 BATFE: Boating Accidents To Fuck up Evidence 😄
Assault weapons are also knives, cars, and your hands, fists and feet when someone is beaten to death
That is correct
To interrupt shooting cycle you put criminals in jail which y'all do not do
@ 57:33 The ATF is supposed to catch criminals, NOT WRITE RULES TO CREATE CRIMINALS OUT OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS ! Writing rules is NOT what Beaurocrats are hired to do.
They need rules for their people to follow. All agencies make rules for their assignment.
Thank you Matt gaetz for standing up for as American citizens law abiding citizens and I praise you for that and I support you 100%
Legally there Simply needs to be No Place on Earth for a Loser.
Majority should congregate within the Breadths of Federal Law.
I am an ex Mechanic now I am retired. I never got an AR Pistol or any of the special triggers or the bump stock either. I can barely run the $399 AR that I have. I remember in boot camp shooting the M16 full auto, I shot more birds than targets (just kidding). But watching the ATF/FBI round up AR Pistols from 40 million pissed off owners should be a heck of a show to watch, hope I last long enough the see the ending.
Me also
Why is the ATF going after Law-Abiding-Citizens with a RULE that carries criminal penalties and INCARCIRATION, INSTEAD of going after criminals committing crimes with MINIMUL punishment??? Who is being held ACCOUNTABLE for the "Fast and Furious" DISASTER????
Or operation wide receiver.
Obviously they *are* going after criminals every day, I'm sure you know that but you just want to repeat the Maga word salad...
How many people has the ATF arrested for having possession of these braces?
@@curtisduvall380
No they haven't. Those braces are illegal and not protected by the Constitution or the law...
You people thrive on ignorance...lol
@@curtisduvall380 No. They, actually did not pause the rule...
They paused it against the plaintiffs. A manufacturer of the gun braces and a Gun Rights group who is a co-plaintiff...
The rule is still in effect. The argument is a pretty weak one. It's one person's opinion about the reason the gun brace was develeoped....
ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME
During the course of my career in law enforcement I can tell you that the vast majority of the drunk drivers I arrested spoke more clearly and were more easily understood than "The Ranking Member" during his opening statement. I'm just curious, Mr. "Ranking Member", how much you had to drink prior to this hearing. Let me guess, "two beers", right? Judging by the way he was speaking, or shall I say slurring, I wouldn't be AT ALL surprised if directly before this hearing if he was given a Breathalyzer test he blew at least a .18.
What an embarrassment. Notice, too, how most of these Congressmen and women actually sit there and READ their questions as if it's the very first time they've seen them. Seriously, pay attention to how they don't even have a clue what the next word is that they're about to say while reading their questions. It's plainly and painfully obvious that most of them didn't write these questions themselves. If I was one of the members questioning a witness you'd better believe I would damned well know what i was asking and wouldn't need to stare intently at a piece of paper mumbling every word as if it were the first time I had ever seen it!!!
It's honestly funny to me. Every time they mention the ATF's purpose of preventing firearms getting in the hands of violent criminals by stopping trafficking....I just remember that the ATF supplied the cartels with firearms and then "lost track" of them.
That guy went to jail. He gone.
Along with Eric holder.
Fast and the furious
Yeah California was bad for that and it's still a huge problem all over they admitted as much
@jefft5152
How could there only be one guy who secured, transported, and Illegally sold more than a thousand firearms to the Cartels. It was a sting operation to catch licensed gun dealers illegally selling firearms. So ATF agents illegally sold firearms, and those firearms were used in murders across the United States and Mexico. What they really managed to do was supply Cartels with fire arms, without doing anything to fix the supposed problem of licensed firearms dealers selling guns illegally.
This is what happens when political affiliation and people are appointed to further an AGENDA is more important. THAN FOR THEIR EXPERTISE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE FIELD.
You're right, Jim Jordan is a perfect example.
@@peggyhughes9837 Jim Jordan is ELECTED not appointed 🤦 Guess I understand now why YOU were triggered by a comment calling out people who DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT 🤭🫵🤣🤣
@@donsims1941 Well, Gym Johnson certainly doesn't know what he's talking about.
@@timothyharris4708 well he certainly understands the the HEAD of the ALCOHOL. TOBACCO AND FIREARMS agency Should be an EXPERT on FIREARMS 🤷 looks like YOU are also TRIGGERED by someone expecting you to KNOW your job 🤔 TELL ME YOU ARE A YOU WERE HIRED FOR " DIVERSITY" OVER MERIT WITHOUT TELLING ME 🤭🫵😂🤣
@@timothyharris4708 who is Gym Johnson?