In a little-watched Sunday political infomercial announcing a rare openly-partisan line from a putative law enforcement agency, ATF Deputy Director Thomas Brandon told CBS News correspondent Richard Schlesinger that the agency demands more gun control laws, especially a confiscation-enabling gun registry.
The point of the show seemed to be that Brandon and the ATF, like Schlesinger and CBS, are campaigning for gun control and for pro-gun-control politicians this election year.
“We’re a small agency with a big job,” Brandon tells correspondent Richard Schlesinger, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, July 31.
Brandon also says his agency is hampered by not having the necessary technology. Congress has imposed constraints on ATF, such as prohibiting the agency from creating a computerized database of gun purchases.
Yet, Brandon says, not having the database hurts. Indeed, after the San Bernardino shootings, it took 12 hours to find out who owned the guns used in the attack. He says a computer database would have helped, and adds that not having one simply doesn’t make sense.
“There’s a lot of things that don’t make sense in this town, you know?” Brandon tells Schlesinger. “And, so, yeah, would it be efficient and effective? Absolutely. Would the taxpayers benefit with public safety? Absolutely. Are we allowed to do it? No.”
“We’re a small agency with a big job,” Brandon tells correspondent Richard Schlesinger, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, July 31.Brandon complained that it took the ATF 12 hours to track the weapons used by the San Bernardino shooter (who was, at the time, dead); time that wouldn’t be “wasted” when they could have been door-kicking and gun-grabbing right away. But they’re lacking the vital and necessary roster of The Usual Suspects.
Given their history — and Brandon’s in particular — do you think they will be focusing their list management and raiding practices on the Islamic terrorists that they haven’t ever pursued once, yet?
Yeah, us neither.
Brandon schooled Schlesinger on the ATF’s new euphemisms: the reporter shouldn’t say that ATF wants to take firearms away from people, just say they want to “regulate dangerous weapons that can be misused.”
Thousands of Mexican criminals, of course, have (and misuse!) dangerous weapons provided by ATF with Brandon’s knowledge and support, and hundreds of lives have been taken by them, including other Federal agents. No ATF employee was ever investigated, except for the whistleblowers who revealed the “gunwalking” programs. Brandon’s answer? More power to the lawless agents that produced these homicides.
Some criminal in the upper midwest is still running around with the selective-fire M4 that an ATF agent left in his G-ride while doing the horizontal bop with another ATF agent, unbeknownst to either’s spouse. No ATF employee was ever investigated on that case, either. Brandon’s answer? More power to the lawless agents that released that firearm into the wild.
And, of course, a more adversarial, punitive, and abusive relationship with the nation’s peaceable gun owners. In Brandon’s world, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
And, of course, more power for the anti-gun politicians that CBS, Schlesinger, Brandon and ATF are campaigning for.
But hey, they don’t want to confiscate your weapons. Just regulate them away from you. Because otherwise, they might be misused. See, it’s all for your own good.
Update
By the way, Brandon was also the Cover-Up King of Operation Gunwalker, according to ineffectual former director Byron T. Jones:
According to outgoing Director Jones’s sworn testimony of April 2, 2014 before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Mr. Brandon was the person who determined disciplinary punishments for all of the ATF personnel involved in Fast and Furious. Brandon was “the ultimate decision maker.” Director Jones confirmed that Thomas Brandon did not fire a single person for participation in Fast and Furious.
The 471 page Justice Department Inspector General Report by Michael E. Horowitz recommended disciplinary action be considered for 14 federal officials….
Brandon intervened, to make sure that none was seriously disciplined. Instead, most have since been promoted (one was allowed to take a job in the private sector and still draw his ATF salary, bonus and benefits for a year while doing it. Brandon personally signed off on that). Now he’s using the imprimatur of the agency, and the bully pulpit of CBS, to campaign for gun control and for politicians that support it.
Sure, Federal Agents are supposed to obey the law, but no one’s ever expected him to, before, so why would he start now?
They don’t have a “big job”, in fact…the people of this nation didn’t hire them, nor want them. So they are just stealing from us and abusing us, exactly the same as an old school mafia protection racket. They should be tossed on prison under the RICO act, not collecting pay checks.
What’s that word, oh yeah…”Treason”…
Bill of Rights…”Shall not be infringed”, there is NO caveat that allows anyone to infringe just a little bit…
it is absolute, and we do not need permission from you authoritarian maggot traitor scum…..
“The enforcer of Tyranny, MUST bare the brunt of the peoples resistance to it”
…those tyrants that give you those orders to enforce, will hang later for certain, but it is you “good people” in LE/Mil who have an obligation to not follow any of this tyranny, unconstitutional shit going on, you and all of us, have the obligation to subdue and arrest all the traitors in our midst, and they are easy to identify, it is anyone who is doing anything contrary to the Constitution and bill of rights…any questions….go read the documents…
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! I DEMAND THAT YOU BATFAGGITS DISBAND AND MIND YOUR OWN FREAKIN BUSINESS…………THEY WANT REGISTRATION SO THEY CAN KILL YOUR ASSES PIECEMEAL… TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE “SHEEP” MENTALITY……………TO TERRORIZE THE PUBLIC WITH “SWAT” OPERATIONS…………
Thomas Brandon, the face of a real traitor pig!
Barbossa: I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means “no”.
My sentiments exactly!
*** …ATF Deputy Director Thomas Brandon told CBS News correspondent Richard Schlesinger that the agency demands more gun control laws, especially a confiscation-enabling gun registry. ***
This might seem like a nitpick, but it’s actually a critical point: a gun registry DOES NOT enable gun confiscation. Only cowardice can do that. Anyone who would peacefully surrender his guns when so ordered by the jackboots doesn’t deserve to have guns in the first place.
This isn’t to say that a gun registry is acceptable. But it betrays a defeatist mentality to imply that the jackboots can just grab our guns if they know what we possess. They can’t do that without a fight to the death unless we LET them.
Besides, government probably already has this information on almost everyone, even if it’s kept by the NSA or some other government agency rather than the BATFags.
HEY!!!,… ATF!!!!,… REGISTER THIS!:
F.U.!
JD – US Marines – The ATF: All-Transgender-F’kwads!
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LOL… I can loan you this for them, JD…
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That’s it #1,… I just didn’t know how to type it in,.. thanks.
JD – US Marines – Nothing tells these Zionist goons how much we love them then a good middle finger (… or hot lead!…)
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You DEMAND?? Who the f&%k are you to demand anything?
Fire that son-of-a-bitch and toss him out in the street. Shake a coffee cup and beg for nickels if you like, but you have no business demanding anything.
I don’t believe the nerve of this piece of schit.
A public servant ” demanding” something
LMFAO
Good luck with that loser
A …..assholes, T….traitors, F….f!@kheads
I have a brilliant solution to this.
How about if the ATF registers and publishes their home addresses on their Website.
Then we can register our weapons personally with them.
They can even charge the taxpayer’s triple overtime for sitting on their azzez at home now.
I just think they’re trying to recover all the fast and furious weapons without doing any real work…..again.
Another worthless agency.
Ya know….those mtherfkers are so worthless that if they just disappeared one day.
“NOBODY WOULD FKNG NOTICE”..!!!!
I thought there was a 1968 Federal Statute which made it a felony to create a gun owners’s registration list, punishable by 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine? Title 18 U.S.C., Section 926, “Gun Control Act of 1968”. Unless Barry snuck something into his NDAA which made this law null and void.
“[The Gov] demands more gun control laws, especially a confiscation-enabling gun registry.”
gun control, as you know, is all about control; keeping the sheeple defenseless against the oppression & tyranny of the Gov
9 of 10 dictators prefer “gun control”