Your presumption about the ATFs responsibilities are wrong. They are a revenue generating agency spun off from the IRS. Their remit is to manage the collection of taxes payable for those products, including taxes related to National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act regulated weapons, fees related to Federal Firearma Licensees and Special Occupation Tax Licensees. They were created specifically to offfload some of the bloat from the IRS itself.
They then bloated into what they are today.
Why do we have 3 agencies constantly doing each other's work? Why do we need the ATF and FBI to investigate gun crimes? Why do we have the FDA and USDA regulating milk production?
Your presumption about the ATFs responsibilities are wrong. They are a revenue generating agency spun off from the IRS. Their remit is to manage the collection of taxes payable for those products, including taxes related to National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act regulated weapons, fees related to Federal Firearma Licensees and Special Occupation Tax Licensees. They were created specifically to offfload some of the bloat from the IRS itself. They then bloated into what they are today.
That's entirely my point.
Why do we have 3 agencies constantly doing each other's work? Why do we need the ATF and FBI to investigate gun crimes? Why do we have the FDA and USDA regulating milk production?
The bloat is the problem.