Tiffany: Should [Biden's] son be turned over [for prosecution] since he violated Form 4473?
Dettelbach: I'm not going to comment on any ongoing investigation.
Tiffany: So you don't take a position on we should have equal justice, we should not have a two-tiered system of justice?
Dettelbach: I just can't comment…on pending investigative matters.
Massie: At one time, the CDC tracked the defensive use of firearms, and after officials were lobbied by activist gun control organizations, they removed that data.
Massie: I see that you're cooperating with the FBI, the ATF is, on the January 6th pipe bomb investigation. What can you tell us about how that's going?
Dettelbach: i'm not going to comment on an ongoing criminal investigation.
Massie: Were those pipe bombs operable?
Dettelbach: Again, it's an ongoing criminal investigation, and under long-standing policy, I cannot comment..
Massie: We've just had a committee for two years that investigated ongoing investigations, so I'm not accepting that answer from you. Do you know how the pipe bomb was discovered at the DNC?
Dettelbach: I can't comment because it's an ongoing criminal investigation.
Massie: I think you can comment.
Escobar: We are a nation awash in guns, and it's not because we are becoming a more violent country…the crimes are getting deadlier because of the weapons that have flooded our communities.
[oftentimes deposited in alleys by rogue intelligence]
Dettelbach has no actual power. I would guess that the two similar-looking goons sitting behind him are his direct handlers/superiors.
Bush: Firearm-related incidents are the leading cause of death for children and for teenagers in the United States, and that has been okayed; we have given it a red carpet.
[knowingly false stat, often repeated, that includes adults eighteen and nineteen years old]
Bush: Missouri, which is a republican state…it is among the ten states with the highest gun deaths in the country. The highest rates of gun deaths, and the weakest gun laws in the country. This is a state that Donald Trump won.
Cline: You have the ability to create a registry of, for example, AR-15s, and create an enforcement list, of {Biden's] new ban on pistol brace weapons, correct?
Dettelbach: I disagree.
Cline: I think the evidence is clear that you have that ability, even if you say that you don't.
Ivey: The use of these AR-15s and other weapons of mass destruction, essentially on our streets, is really devastating communities.
[they constantly make up ridiculous descriptions as a fear tactic]
Hunt: If the left can't repeal the Second Amendment, they now have an unelected bureaucrat like yourself [Dettelbach], issue a regulation that will make forty million Americans, felons overnight.
Hunt: In 1986, you could walk into a store anywhere in this country and buy a fully automatic weapon…were there more or fewer mass-shootings across our country when machine guns were available? I think we all know the answer to that. We weren't having these problems because it's not the guns, it's our core values that have plummeted.
Hageman: The ATF, and the entirety of the Administrative State, continues to engage in illegal lawmaking.
Happy Birthday Melania!
Hageman: It's a pretty scathing indictment if the ATF's attempt to subvert the lawmaking authority of congress by misinterpreting statutes so that an unelected bureaucrat can essentially alter the underlying statute and apply new criminal prohibitions…the weaponization of the ATF by unelected bureaucrats, who are always pushing to expand their power, and the scope of federal gun laws, to infringe on the Second Amendment.
Hageman: Is your priority as ATF Director to catch criminals who violate the law, or to change the laws to create new criminals?
Dettelbach: We use the laws as congress has passed them to try to protect people from violent crime, and catch people who are violating the law.
Hageman: Congress didn't pass a law banning bump stocks, did it?
Dettelbach: Congress delegated to ATF rulemaking authority.
Hageman: Actually the court held that you don't have rulemaking authority. That was the Fifth Circuit decision….Did congress ban pistol braces?
Dettelbach: Congress passed a National Firearms Act, and said short-barreled rifles were subject to additional regulation.