You make it sound so easy...;) Oh, because it is. LAV didn't trip, fall, and get his dick stuck in this. He went balls deep with sketchy people and got caught.
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This is basically exactly what happened.
I work with an AUSA that was formerly general counsel for ATF in ATF HQ. He said they knew exactly what was going on with the demo letters, but were told to ignore it and move on. That changed under the current administration.
The article shows further proof that our society has moved away from objectivity and into a partisan subjectivity. Doc Robert's "Facts matter...Feelings Can Lie" comes to mind here, because there's a sad tendency to evaluate facts based on feelings- and dismiss any inconvenient facts if they don't match the partisan worldview.
I understand, but every agency lets something slide...until they don't.
I doubt this was the only clarification letter since 1986, but anyone who wants to push the edge of the envelope has now been warned.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/op...tters/download
I moved the clusterfuck of posts about politics into a new thread.