Kansas Representative Tracey Mann is reintroducing the Reining in Federal Licensing Enforcement (RIFLE) Act, a bill designed to defend the Second Amendment and protect firearms businesses as a measure to counter the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) zero-tolerance policy established in 2021 under the Biden administration. The policy is said to target willful violations by those holding a federal firearms license (FFL). However, the ATF has revoked over 250 FFLs since its inception, 20 in Kansas alone, drawing skepticism to the policy’s true intent.
Mann regards the rigid policy and its ultra-aggressive implementation as a continued attack on the Second Amendment and the firearms industry through the weaponization of the ATF under the former administration.
“President Biden did everything in his power to weaponize the federal government against gun store owners in the Big First District of Kansas and across the country… His zero-tolerance policy undermined the Second Amendment and trampled on the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. Since day one, I have rigorously pushed back against this unconstitutional policy and fought for more oversight to rein in ATF’s abuse,” according to Mann.
It should come as no surprise, as Mann points out, that the Biden administration’s ATF presided over record-high revocations, with 2024 seeing the largest number of FFL holders lose their licenses in the past 20 years.
“The Second Amendment is a load-bearing wall in our system of rights… If you weaken a load-bearing wall, the entire structure is compromised. The 500% spike in FFL revocations under President Biden is unacceptable, and it’s indicative of the President’s larger strategy to chip away at the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans,” says Representative Mann.
Some of the violations listed under the Gun Control Act that have been used as grounds for license revocation include the transfer of a firearm to a prohibited individual, failure to conduct a background check, falsification of records, not responding to a trace request, and refusing to allow the ATF to conduct an on-site inspection.
Mann is not the only one concerned, however, that the process is prone to abuse by design, allowing for vague interpretations of the law that favor revocation without proper discourse. Gun Owners of America has also played a large role in exposing Gestapo tactics, including multiple legal challenges to the zero-tolerance policy.
“Gun Owners of America has been at the forefront of the fight to unmask the ATF’s zero-tolerance policy and has now directly challenged the implementation of it twice in court… This policy is just one of the numerous intimidation tactics the Biden Administration has initiated to harass law-abiding gun owners and firearm dealers into submission, and GOA refuses to stand by and tolerate it. We urge the House to quickly act on Rep. Mann’s bill to rein in this rogue federal agency’s attacks on the Second Amendment,” according to Aidan Johnston, Director of Federal Affairs of Gun Owners of America.
The RIFLE Act would provide FFLs adequate time to respond and come into compliance with regulations while clearly defining the violation in no uncertain terms. The legislation will also establish an appeals procedure and protocols to reinstate licenses revoked during the no-tolerance period. Lastly, it would establish a government website to manage reimbursement claims.
The Trump administration has been busy correcting America’s course since the President’s inauguration last month. However, it remains to be seen how the 47th President of our nation will ultimately reign in the ATF and what measures the conservative majority in our current legislature will take to restore our rights under the Second Amendment. You remember, those that “shall not be infringed.”
Licensing the purchase or sale of firearms is Unconstitutional.
Limiting the purchase or sale of firearms in any way is Unconstitutional.
We are here because of all these Unconstitutional law were allowed in the first place. THE only solution is to get back to where we belong – Shall not be infringed.
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First rule of composing an Act: it’s gotta have a good acronym.
Let’s get back to buying guns from the Sears Catalog delivered directly to your house. Guessing it would end up being Amazon nowadays.
Local hardware store works. But one bite at a time for getting everything back.
Well we have been nibbling back our natural, civil, and Constitutionally protected rights for decades and yet the left is still attacking in new and innovative ways. IMHO it’s time to put all of this to rest. We have been re-active. Time to get pro-active.
We have barely begun. They have the better part of a century lead in the legislation and lawfare. Moonshots are fun and all and may even be worth trying when time/energy/resources permit but our unwillingness to grind is what lost the rights to begin with.
There is no real push back from Gun Talking blowbags who want to look like they are protecting a centuries old constitutional right all while it’s dead silence when it comes to noting the centuries of atrocities Rooted in Gun Control…you know who you are. Buffoons see the words Gun Control and they argue with it instead of Defining It. To argue with Gun Control all while completely ignoring its baggage gives Gun Control Standing. Happens all the time and it is reason why the tit for tat continues. Makes as much sense as arguing with home invaders over Caf or Decaf.
Any time you want to be productive please do so otherwise fuck off you cheap nag.
Home invaders, you mean like the No Knock Cops?
“But one bite at a time for getting everything back.”
I call that “The Lawyers’ Income Preservation Act”.
All the 2A defense organizartions are dependent on having gun control efforts successfully passing anti-gun laws. Where is the influence being applied to prevent gun control laws from happening?
Eliminate the NFA and GCA, the stilts upon which gun control law sits.
Do you have a funded articulated case in progress or ready to go? In the end yes that will be one of the end goals but getting to a point where that is possible let alone likely tends to take a lot of work and unfortunately enriched lawyers. Especially true when large numbers of brainwashed fearful types are able to vote against their own liberty as well as their neighbors. Workable alternatives are welcome but haven’t seen too many that wouldn’t be particularly bloody.
Why does eliminating NFA/GCA via law suit take a lot of time. Attacking an unconstitutional law does not need precedent of incremental “wins” to ensure that eventual (in our lifetimes?) victory will come of it.
Either Heller/Bruen apply, or they don’t. And if they don’t, years of nibbling around the edges (and money spent doing so) will be more wasteful than a direct assault that fails.
Why did it take years – years! – to introduce this Act?
When did it have a snowballs chance of hell in passing?
If I lived in Kansas I’d vote for that Mann.
The sky rains. A king reigns. The President will rein in ATF. I hope.
Representative Tracey Mann’s Reining in Federal Licensing Enforcement (RIFLE) Act aims to address concerns over the ATF’s zero-tolerance policy and its impact on federal firearms license (FFL) holders.