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Gun Lobby Makes It Difficult for President Obama to Appoint New ATF Director

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The gun lobby is making it difficult for President Obama find a new permanent director of the ATF, the Chicago Tribune reports. Obama had to give up on his previous nomination Andrew Traver, who headed the ATF office in Chicago, after pressure from the gun lobby made it impossible to get Senate…

Editorial: ATF Left Without Teeth to Enforce Gun Laws

allan12 years ago12 years ago02 mins

San Francisco Chronicle Editorial One of the gun lobby’s favorite mantras is that the nation doesn’t need any more laws to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals; it needs to start by enforcing those that are on the books. But that argument evaporates upon closer inspection of the federal government’s systems for tracking and…