Is A Top ATF Executive Pro-gun?

Sounds like President Trump just found the new ATF Agency Director:

In a “white paper” published by the Washington Post, ATF Associate Deputy Director Ronald Turk shows that a continued ban on the importation of numerous “assault weapons” is nonsensical…

Turk wrote, “Since the sunset of the Assault Weapons ban in 2004, the use of AR-15s, AK-style, and similar rifles now commonly referred to as ‘modern sporting rifles’ has increased exponentially in sport shooting. These firearm types are now standard for hunting activities.” Because of his paradigm shift regarding the view and usage of “assault weapons,” Turk suggests the ATF review and update its “almost 20-year-old study” on such firearms…

He also addressed suppressors, highlighting their broad use in hunting and shooting sports and suggesting it is “archaic” to continue to regulate them via the National Firearms Act.

Turk touched on M1 Garands, military-issue 1911s, and other U.S. military-issued firearms that are in holding overseas, awaiting clearance to be shipped back to the U.S. and sold to citizens.

If Trump reworks the NFA, this could mean brand new HK’s and FALs, in full auto, with suppressors, coming back in again.

ATF often gets a bad rap in the shooting sports community, mainly due to high-profile goatfucks like Waco or Fast and Furious. But those high profile screw-ups are almost always the pet projects of some political higher-up with political aspirations, and a desire to use the agency and its agents as pawns for their own publicity and budget purposes. I’m sure every ATF agent is aghast that Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered by smugglers using Fast and Furious Weapons.

The two grassroots ATF agents I knew in my youth were not at all anti-gun, or authoritarian assholes. Their entire focus was working with local Police on finding ways to pin federal firearms charges on gang members to increase their sentences, based on guns found in searches and at crime scenes. Although they could have gotten wrangled into Waco-esque duties by higher-ups, due to the military nature of their organization’s authority system, they themselves had no desire to hassle gun owners like themselves.

What is nice is, had this guy written this and seen Hillary elected, his career would have been over. But with President Trump in office, and the NRA keeping its eye out for sympathetic allies, you know his career is on an upward path, he will bring his friends with him, and that will only be good for relations between shooters and the ATF.

This is the K-shift, and its effects will soon reach everywhere.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because ATF will be on our side