Article here. A fine idea. BATFE are the people that brought us Ruby Ridge and Fast and Furious. They haven't done anything useful since Elliot Ness retired in the 1940's. They were originally set up as Federal agents to collect the federal whiskey tax (the revenooers). A tax that has caused friction since George Washington's time. Later when cigarette taxes were invented, that job was handed to the revenooers. And even later when they started passing gun control laws in the 1930's the revenooers got the job of enforcing that too.
For one reason or another, BATFE is heavy handed, corrupt, and expensive. Far as I am concerned, the laws on whiskey tax, tobacco tax, and gun control are just laws, and can be enforced the way all the other laws are enforced. Police, courts, marshals, and FBI are plenty adequate. Shutting down BATFE would eliminate a lot of corruption and wrong doing and save money to boot.
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