ATF traced Trump rally shooter’s gun using records opposed by some in GOP
ATF traced Trump rally shooter’s gun using records opposed by some in GOP
About a half-hour after an ATF tracing center received the weapon’s serial number, officials learned the father of the shooter purchased the weapon in 2013.
The right will fight against any sensible gun policies even if some other crazed Republican ends up succeeding in killing their orange god-emperor. They are really just that fucking stupid.
It’s asinine too - their beef is the ATF digitizing records to make an incomplete record of sales, which is seen as registration. Muh freedoms, etc
The problem is, Americans live in a digital panopticon. If the Feds want to know, they’ll find out.
He can prevent getting shot at by dropping out of the race.
The information turned out to be useless. I suppose it might have been useful if the would-be assassin had escaped or if he had been part of a larger conspiracy, but I think that then his gun would likely have been stolen or otherwise untraceable.
You know, I often think this when I’m parking my car. Why the fuck did I even wear this seatbelt? It turned out to be useless since I didn’t get in any accidents.
If you're trying to convince someone to wear a seatbelt, you aren't going to change his mind by telling him about all the times that seatbelts didn't do anything for you. This doesn't mean that seatbelts are useless, it just means that you're not making a good argument in favor of them. This article implies that "some in the GOP" are wrong to oppose keeping these records and tries to illustrate that point using a case where the records didn't actually make a difference. That's just poor rhetoric.
But the method not
I wonder if we'll see maga shitheads advocate for trying the father for attempting to murder Dear Leader.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Soon after a Secret Service sniper killed the man who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, officers grabbed the AR-style weapon by the shooter’s body and started to record its make, model and any details they could glean.
The attempted assassination of a former president and current White House nominee gave the public a glimpse into “the time pressure that law enforcement, the ATF agents and our local police partners are under to solve these cases and advance the investigation,” said Steven Dettelbach, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The nation’s 80,000 or so operating licensed gun dealers are required to maintain their own records, with law enforcement agencies contacting the shops directly if they need to identify the buyer of a weapon used in a crime.
The identification of Crooks reflects a speeded-up version of the traces that occur hundreds of thousands of times each year when authorities find a gun potentially linked to a crime and discover it was purchased at a store that has since closed.
Last week, Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) tacked an amendment onto the appropriations bill for the Justice Department, which oversees ATF, that would prevent the agency from using money to maintain digital copies of its out-of-business records.
Republican critics of ATF have proposed slashing its $1.6 billion budget by more than 10 percent, which Dettlebach said would impact efforts to maintain the trove of closed-business records and deploy agents to work with federal and local law enforcement agencies investigating gun crimes.
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