ATF director and firearms expert show some of the weapons being found on the streets

Steven Dettelbach, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and Chris Bort, acting chief of ATF's Firearms Ammunition Technology Division, show Margaret Brennan some of the weapons that law enforcement agencies are currently finding on the streets.
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[@lovablepersona5000]

The collective ignorance from the top leadership of the ATF is amazing.

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

relatively sad if you ask me. I mean, if were gonna talk about, lets lead with absolute facts... good, bad and indifferent. Thats why it's so hard to have a conversation.

[@jason21602]

They are terrible at explaining these things to someone who is ignorant and trying to understand.

[@mortimersnerd5172]

@@jason21602 their botched up explanation can't be understood by the ignorant anyway.

[@Killso420]

This clown is the head of the ATF 😂 I'll be assembling my FRT 3D printed "assault rifle" now and guess what, there isn't a single law against that 🧐

[@BasedU.S.parriot1776]

The director of the ATF stated on a national TV he dosent know the difference between a clip and a magazine

[@Soulsnatched4th]

2nd amendment wasn’t for hunting.

[@BetterTextLex]

“A well rounded diet, being necessary to nutrition of a free state, the right of the people to hunt, shall not be infringed.”

[@earlestes8649]

It was designed to protect the people from idiots like this! Our founding fathers knew that this day would come when our government would become a tyrannical government and it’s coming soon down the pike!

[@FLMAN3366]

You'd think they would remind her of that!

[@interstellarsurfer]

Yes, it was. There's no bag limit, and it ain't fit to eat.

[@ksman9087]

The more ignorant they can keep the people, especially the press, the easier they are to control. @@FLMAN3366

[@douglasmccurdy6724]

In that room the most dangerous objects are the 3 human beings.

[@tdbarton7712]

There are two dangerous men in the room. Reporter Brennan gets a pass as Detteldunce and Bumblebort categorically failed her and the cameraperson with lack of basic safety. She doesn't know what she doesn't know. Ms. Brennan did not opine on any of the (mis)information from ATF's top fools.

[@davevaught5583]

She had a hard time hiding her love for that 1911😂

[@arghyachatterjee3008]

@@tdbarton7712 You mean "fatso" and "baldie"?

[@LazarOrthodox04]

​@@tdbarton7712of course feminist yapping

[@ACEE_Femboy]

@@LazarOrthodox04bro, ngl the girl didnt do anything 💀 she doesnt even know what a gun is pluh

[@aaronwilkinson8963]

A firearms expert would not refer any gun or rifle as an assault weopon.

[@yourlifeisagreatstory]

“This little piece can be used to change the firearm to make it illegal (implying more deadly)” - well, a pressure cooker can be modified to make it illegal and more deadlier, but I don’t need to fill out paperwork to buy one nor are they storming my grandma’s house and arresting her for having one….

[@dobber43]

​@@yourlifeisagreatstorynot yet granny is in trouble if they ever get as far as they want with guns we must hold the line for g ma.

[@o.w.i.m]

@@yourlifeisagreatstory They probably wouldn't arrest her, the current modus operandi is one to the head.

[@TroyBierkortte]

If this "expert" were handling firearms like this on my range, he would be kicked off.

[@fortheloveofnoise9298]

No real expert would be anti gun

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

Amen! its the blind leading the blind.

[@charliedontsurf334]

@@Citizen2ACitizenLLC Willfully blind.

[@y_us_12]

Unfortunately it works totally opposite in ATF. The more stupid things you r doing with a gun the higher your expertise. Here we see the leading experts

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

@@y_us_12 hilarious and true at the same time!

[@jacobnorris6311]

So for an extra $200, these "weapons of war" suddenly become ok to own for the everyday American. Wow ATF, very cool! Doesn't sound like a shakedown AT ALL

[@mountainmantesla4395]

It has one purpose. To keep the guns out of the hands of the poors and the blacks.

[@Cheepshooter14]

Also, that $200 tax was imposed at a time when the average median white male income was around $1400 per year. Average black male income was $650 per year. Minimum wage laws wouldn't exist for another 4 years, and they were set at 25 cents per hour!

[@colddeadhand7414]

Yep, stripping your rights away and then selling them back to you. If the mob did this it would be illegal.

[@dobber43]

​@@Cheepshooter14yeah they made it prohibitive for common men so only the people they trusted could get them their fellow rich friends and security teams. Also not to mention they have u on file file and control a lot of what you can do with ur purchase even after giving them their 200 in hush money.

[@jdisrael7607]

You are witnessing three people who as children were always picked last in kickball and now the whole world is going to pay.

[@BozoDuhClown]

This was the largest display of fear mongering bs lol

[@charliedontsurf334]

I've seen bigger.

[@southern04man]

Shocked?

[@aterentyev]

Fun fact: ATF have themselves supplied weapons to the cartels in the past, and have recovered those same weapons after ATF agents were killed in the line of duty.

[@markl6769]

True

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

but they dont want to talk about that!!!

[@61woody]

Fact!

[@Matthew-bc9mr]

And they weapons they flooded onto the streets were NFA items. Full auto rifles and submachine guns. That citizens cannot legally purchase.

[@ksman9087]

You are right, but I think it was a Border Patrol agent who was killed.

[@danward7891]

How safe do you feel when the ATF lies and their expert mislabeled and misrepresented almost every firearm on the table?

[@Killso420]

The answer is "Super Safety"

[@methanesprings4085]

Lol@@Killso420

[@downandout992]

"Expert"

[@Marinealver]

Like at any moment a military drone would strike me and/or my neighbors home.

[@williegilligan2661]

I am amazed by the number of lies they tell... On camera noless.

[@MrZoichi]

The only surprising thing to come out of this interview was the ATF goons *not* immediately looking into the barrel of the guns when asked, "Are these guns loaded?"

[@colddeadhand7414]

😂😂😂😂

[@salloroc20]

two brain cells fighting for third place

[@andrew5689]

What a horrendous display of so-called "expertise".

[@bobbywilson9468]

😂😂😂😂 so true!!!🙏🏼💪🏽🛐💯!!!!

[@charliedontsurf334]

I thought it was a great display of government expertise. Please show this far and wide!

[@SargentD4]

Maybe he’s an expert in the alcohol and tobacco part 😂

[@Marinealver]

@@SargentD4 not even, the guy looks light weight AF. But yeah as in Lord of War whenever ATF wants to talk it is never about the Alcohol or the Tobacco parts. I'm also suprised they haven't been placed in charge of Marijuana.

[@richardprice5978]

@@Marinealver please no Mary-J ( i don't get involved with A or T but yes F and fireworks/minor-explosives/safe-ish-chemical's ) they need to be removed from alcohol and tobacco related products and leaving that to marshal's/localities and for public consumption farm/F&D food & drug administration, ATF is a left over from the 1890's-1940 era and failed policy's and now there aiming to dubstep down on it 🤦🏻‍♂, not really sure if they should even be around after 1950's as part of government/president-cabinet

[@kevinquick4844]

I love the fact that their so called expert couldnt properly break down a glock. The most popular handgun on the planet.

[@wesroberts953]

You would think at a very basic level they would know the difference between a clip and magazine.

[@bobbywilson9468]

FACTS 😂😂😂!!!

[@philrc1]

Yeah, I noticed that too.

[@rth8db757]

Glad others noticed

[@robertjohnson9884]

Never carried a Glock in government service and never had to break one down? So much for an expert. The military used to define expert as: ex= has been: pert is a discharge of fluid. Very appropriate for these two.

[@404Matt]

Not a single Draco or Hi-Point. This is clearly fake.

[@williamfoster2681]

Imagine how safe we'd be if the ATF went after real criminals instead of hobbyists tinkering in their garage.

[@emilyphillips9817]

Y’all this is the ATF Director and he doesn’t know the difference between a clip and magazine, how a bump stock works, or how to handle these guns correctly. The freaking DIRECTOR of the ATF. The guy that regulates firearms. This is scary on a whole new level and the incompetence of this administration is astounding!

[@user-zc6vs3rw8r]

He has really soft hands, though

[@BetterTextLex]

He has exactly zero legal experience with the firearms industry, gun regulations, or the Second Amendment. All is his prior experience is white collar crime and civil rights enforcement, but I doubt he has done much enforcement of the Second Amendment

[@mikemelina7395]

Yeah, but he ticks the right boxes for "Clueless Joe", he wants to revoke your rights, that's all that matters to the Democrats.

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

And thats why I dont pay attention to titles. They probably chose him because of his firearms ignorance. He's talking like he was just debriefed which is probably why he had the "Expert" accompany him. SMH

[@studleydewrite2942]

So,the atf is staffed with people no more qualified,when it comes to firearms,than the current administration is when it comes to leadership abilities. All are clowns. President Trump 2024

[@DaLinkWent]

The "expert" couldn't even get the Glock to disassemble 😂😂😂😂

[@fortheloveofnoise9298]

no expert would be hating on guns

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

I thought I was the only one that caught that!

[@FrankyJay.....]

He shouldn't be considered a expert lol

[@Dutchbrother07]

He clearly knew how to do it, he was just having trouble with that particular firearm. Understandable since it’s not even his. He did the other one in like two seconds. Let’s put a camera on you and you can disassemble a random firearm of mine and if you stutter, you’re apparently incompetent

[@whomagoose6897]

Now we know that you don't have to have knowledge and skills to work in the government. It's who you know to get a government job, not what you know.

[@HHIVR4]

Just when you thought the AFT couldn't look dumber they go and do this...😂😂😂😂😂

[@colddeadhand7414]

I love it when they post a remembrance for the fallen ATF agents during Waco every year and the internet roasts them almost as hard as they roasted the Branch Davidians.

[@beers1892]

It's nice to see experts that can't even tell you what they have or break down a glock.

[@tomshepherd4901]

This is rather misleading. One of the "experts" just called a 75rd drump magazine a "clip", which is wrong. One of the AKs is full auto, the other is semi-auto but has a bump stock. They made a false equivaency between the two. Yes an AK47 can be bump fired at a high rate, but it is still semi-auto, (one pull of the trigger per round fired.) The vast majority of bump stocks are used for target shooting, not killing people or anything else. If congress wants to make bump-fire stocks illegal they should modify the NFA. The president and AG do not have the authority to do that, which is why this is at supreme court now. 75% or more of all gun homicides and 2/3 of all mass shootings are committed with hand guns, not military style rifles or full-auto weapons. Republicans have been actively blocking efforts to trace any firearms. Until that changes, serial numbers won't matter. Why don't they ever get a reporter who actually knows firearms to do this kind of thing. Educational? Really? This is spin and fearmongering, not education. I agree that people who can't be trusted with firearms shouldn't have them. But this is not helping.

[@carlh7795]

The modification needed to the NFA is to trash it. Paying a tax for a right? Hmmm, like a poll tax? And then allowing someone sitting at an agency desk determining whether they'll accept your tax for the right, or deny it and make you a felon if you go through with acquiring what is Constitutionally your right to own? And having it even be law that the tax isn't allowed to be paid on machine guns after May 19, 1986? Nuts. The NFA, GCA, and Hughes Amendments should have never come close to passing.

[@pARabell9mm]

Whatcha expect from a couple of political hacks?

[@nickrussett259]

It's worse than that, the one that said that is the DIRECTOR of the ATF itself!

[@gilbertnail7266]

The "Firearms expert" couldn't even figure out how to reassemble the Glock Clone after he removed the slide.

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

More than misleading!!!!!! SMH

[@mattrogers2701]

This is propaganda of the highest level. You will never disarm us.

[@Marinealver]

You got Drone Control? They are not going to go at you gun to gun you know. Don't expect a fair fight from some rather unfair folks.

[@fxrsniper1]

@@Marinealver Are you high?

[@yuulb.alwright9920]

​@@Marinealver We got drones too. Ukraine has shown us what a little RC drone can do.

[@PrezCamacho]

​@@MarinealverEver heard of RF fences?

[@roboteen]

Fair fight or not, like Biden said, he’ll have to send f15s after us.

[@fndrr42]

The expert cannot take the slide off a damn Glock. God help us

[@spqr49]

He's as much of an expert as all the "experts" during covid.

[@KurtSimmons]

Why hasn’t anyone ever asked them how they track a gun with a serial number back to the, “shooter” since they can’t legally keep that information?

[@TisiphonesShadow]

I've been a cop for 27 years with a lot of that time in forensics. I'm also a trained armorer. Both of those guys are clowns and are intentionally misleading the audience. It's disgusting.

[@rumble2468]

They're political appointees. Dettelbach is a lawyer, but has openly admitted to lacking any experience or technical knowledge of firearms.

[@gunscarsandc_gars2771]

And during this time we're you just finding barret 50 cals and m249s on the street

[@jacoblee5307]

I totally agree.

[@dobber43]

​@@gunscarsandc_gars2771right? Like what street? In Mexico maybe but bro a $7,500+ dollar gun that is by no means concealable is not used for normal crime lol. Even if they were maybe they should keep an eye on that area and find what big money gang is bankrolling this and using them u know punish the guilty party instead of the innocent law abiding ones.

[@ILPurp98]

I also enjoy how they mention gangs, cartels, and criminals, but all the regulations they speak of only affect law-abiding citizens

[@chrisrosenthal1210]

^^^^^THIS^^^^^ They can come up with all the laws in the world. Criminals won't care. It solves nothing.

[@ctom7389]

Factsssss

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

because they can't control the gangs, cartels and criminals. So they go for the low hanging fruit..... The Law abiding citizen! smh

[@KCBluesJams]

Where exactly do you think the criminals get all the guns and while Mexican cartels sends drugs we send guns into their country to arm the drug dealers . Guns are readily available to purchase in multiple states that don’t require a background check just cash 💵

[@chrisrosenthal1210]

@@KCBluesJams Every state requires background checks. If you're doing a private sale, use some judgement. If you're in questions about the buyer, refuse the sale or require then to go through a FFL and complete a background check. If you knowingly sell a firearm to someone you think is prohibited, that makes you the criminal also. Now the ATF on the other hand sold several thousand weapons to illegal straw purchasers for over 6 years straight in an attempt to arrest the cartel buyers..... Then never arrested a single one of them. The Mexican police recovered a bunch of them at crime scenes. Thank the ATF for Mexicos complaint on guns coming from the US.

[@kidfunkyfri3308]

i love how the ATF is claiming "people are claiming these aren't NFA items"(the bumpstock and pistol brace) when they themselves are the ones who said that they weren't in the first place

[@bgreene.visuals]

This new Three Stooges promo is WILD 😂🤡💀

[@deltafire12]

Minus Margaret. She just didn’t talk to the “right” people. And if disagrees, I REALLY HOPE that this Director and Chief gets fired because let’s agree on one thing: THEY DON’T KNOW ZAP ABOUT FIREARMS 😂

[@RobertBeckk]

Dude doesnt know its not against the law to build a gun without a serial number.

[@Douglas1ro]

He knows! He didnt want to explain it to her. They want the general public to stay in the dark.

[@FrankyJay.....]

There trying to change the laws. Ban everything. They should just ban 3D printers too.

[@diegrinder6851]

Actually, that's not true A DIY firearm build only needs a SN if and when you later decide to sell it or give it to someone else.

[@mortimersnerd5172]

You can buy the lower, the part with the trigger that needs to have a few holes drilled with the jig and right sized drills included. The upper which is the hammer, barrel and slide must be ordered through a firearms dealer. It can only be bought from the dealer and a background check must be done when picked up. The plastic lower which really is all that makes it a ghost gun is useless without the metal slide, barrel and firing mechanism. A 3D printed gun can't handle the minimum 20,000 Ib. per square inch of combustion of the burning powder and explode. A plastic firing pin isn't strong enough to set off the primer.

[@derekpowell5376]

⁠​⁠@@mortimersnerd5172 actually, the upper does not need to be shipped to an FFL as it does not have a serial number. I ordered online Friday and received it today. No checks, no nothing since it’s not the “business” end of the rifle.

[@hectorluisprieto8873]

at approximately 11-minute mark, the ATF “expert” demonstrates he’s unable to disassemble a Glock pistol and continues to try to do so until he hands it out to a person outside the view of the camera to do it for him. You can’t make this stuff up!

[@BasedU.S.parriot1776]

Guy is a political hack, make a wish director

[@HuckleBerry476]

6:57 That is an AR-15, sir. Those labels were required to be put on all “assault weapons” during the crime act, which sunsetted in 2004. Has nothing to do with machine guns.

[@derekofalltrades5494]

Did the ATF director just say that buying a gun with cash is suspicious because there's no credit card trail? Hmmmm sounds like they ARE creating a registry.

[@spitfier79]

Tell me you know nothing about firearms without telling me you know nothing about firearms.

[@Marinealver]

I would ask him about the Alcohol and Tobacco, but the ATF never bothers with such stuff.

[@wejones426]

Wow, you "experts" know almost nothing and completely made a mockery of safe firearm handling

[@Harem__King]

They’re experts at making your life a living hell with dumb laws lol

[@tims9448]

It looked like they may have cleared one gun when they picked it up off the table Where are all the trigger locks?😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@tyleradkins7294]

The worst part is that these self proclaimed “experts” probably make 100’s of thousands of a year to do this.

[@straitjacket89]

I love how many lies are being told in this story it's clear that nobody here knows anything about firearms

[@n4d3m4n]

"Short Barrel Rifles are unusually dangerous..." "So pay us $200 and we'll let you have one.

[@Marinealver]

None of the people in this video ever shot a gun.

[@chrisrosenthal1210]

"Most Americans back more gun control" ..... 358 comments so far and not ONE supports your infringement on our rights.

[@rumble2468]

Polls suggest that Americans support "gun control" in the way they support abstract concepts like eradicating poverty, but can't give you specifics.

[@duanewhitlock2887]

Oooo, scary... The ATF arms expert couldn't even break a Glock down!😂

[@joshchampionmusic2285]

This is literally the equivalent of the surgeon general not being able to take a basic BP reading. The level of incompetence in this video mind blowing.

[@richardgiesey1]

I love that this reporter had to ask these "experts" if they were unloaded after hes fondeling them

[@peterkosche4035]

Yes while pointing the rifle in the direction of the camera operator. Not learning anything from Alec Baldwin.

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

At least she knew to ask! I would imagine being around all of these so called dangerous firearms that there would have been a 10 minute off camera showing of unloaded firearms. But thats just me. What do I know. Im just a RSO, Basica Pistol Instructor/Concealed Carry Instructor. Not the head of the ATF nor an Expert.

[@TheBloodwolf63]

We should own machine guns with no nfa. NFA should be abolished, because its an infringement

[@Killso420]

Stay "super safety" my friend, you can!

[@ahuras238]

SHALL NOT

[@ffarmchicken]

Bruen, history, text and tradition is the law of the land now. Only traitors and Redcoats support or enforce the NFA.

[@97gseclipse]

The director was bullied in high school

[@n4d3m4n]

"$12.000 cash money, and there's no credit card trail"... except for the fact that there's a 4473 filled out and a background check done.... and the FBI can turn that off any time they want to, to infringe upon rights...

[@randymelton8713]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but SBR's are only NFA items because of a clerical error. They were supposed to be taken out of the legislation when handguns were.

[@bobbywilson9468]

True story/Facts 🙏🏼💪🏽💯!!!

[@ForTehNguyen]

it used to be shorter than 18" until they unknowingly sold M1 carbines back to USGIs after WW2 which was 17.5" or so, so they had to change it afterwards to 16" otherwise they created tons of felons. Thats why shotguns are still 18" but rifles are 16"

[@Darkness_Actual]

Yeah, "error".

[@arghyachatterjee3008]

No! They kept SBRs because they wanted to stop sawed off rifles / shotguns.

[@basketofdeplorables4253]

@@arghyachatterjee3008 Why?

[@squirrelcovers6340]

He doesn't know the difference between a magazine and a clip. He has ZERO credibility.

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

He was waiting for the NRA to step in but they were too busy spending putins donations

[@Supadupanerd]

Nerd alert

[@FraserFir-sb4lk]

@@Supadupanerd Sir, these are supposed to be *the experts*

[@claireconover]

or … maybe you’re wrong.

[@EkarDGames]

@@claireconoverno… he’s not

[@My-T1]

Jesus Christ, the head of the ATF knows absolutely nothing about firearms, and his "expert" is a clown that does not know that people DO in fact hunt with AKs.

[@ilushabronisz9203]

Look how scared she is to be around all those unloaded guns 😂😂

[@subterfusion4005]

Have to give it to the ATF director for acknowledging the cartels having all these scary firearms without mentioning the US govt sold the guns to them.

[@FLMAN3366]

Controlling the narrative, time and time again.

[@ffarmchicken]

The US government also gave millions od dollars of fully automatic firearms and ammo to terrorists that want to destroy the U.S.

[@luisuribe5432]

Love how they explained straw purchases but not when they sold firearms to the cartel themselves 😂

[@jordanhurst4460]

I was more irritated by the fact that he said an 18 year can go into a gun store and buy a Barrett 50 cal. Technically true but he failed to mention one really small detail... IT COSTS $8,000!!! Yeah, not a lot of 18 year olds have that kind of capitol "expert."

[@thomasokeeffe4719]

Felt like i was watching an SNL skit

[@draufganger620]

1) Ruby ridge 2) Waco 3) operation fast and furious ATF couldn’t care less about preventing violent crime

[@Stylepoints71]

Operation Thor is a fun one, too.

[@Marinealver]

Just chill bro, they are on tour and are just getting started. Just you wait till you see what they got next!

[@CottonChopper486]

Blood Thirsty Tyrants

[@Razgriz85]

Probably had a hand in giving the Philly cops the C4 that they dropped onto the roof of a house in 1985, that caused a massive fire killing 11 people, 3 of which were children, and destroying the homes of hundreds of other people in the surrounding block due to the spreading flames that the fire department was ordered to not put out. Their target was a Philly group called MOVE.

[@DirtyCivi317]

Reporter:You would like to regulate every other part too? Director: Yes! I mean no that’s for congress to decide.

[@Killso420]

Oh really, yet every chance you get, you forget that and decide people who have obeyed the law are suddenly felons

[@christianbolt5761]

Nothing to do with hunting! Why don’t we have a gardening amendment, or football amendment.

[@TylerMiller-qg9qk]

The director really said "pay in stores with cash so there's no paper trail" as if that matters when there's still a background check and multiple forms that get sent straight to the ATF afterwards regardless of payment method. These people are tyrants in clown makeup

[@chrisr6749]

"About 20 minutes of work and they can make the plastic part into a gun." Then struggles to put the slide on the P80 😂 Looks like you need more work with the file buddy.

[@FLMAN3366]

So called expert LOL those are the guys testifying at trials convincing juries to convict people like Matt hoover at CRS. F-T-ATF!

[@southern04man]

I love how they completely leave out that you can't print the main part.....the barrel.

[@Mad_Marx]

I want to meet the ATF official that can convert an 80% lower to a fully functioning firearm in 20 minutes.

[@whateverwhatever4026]

Ffs. They can lie to us all day, I'm not even allowed to comment challenging their nonsense...

[@AntiMatter1]

If a gun is stolen you can’t trace that gun to the person who pulled the trigger.

[@dennischapman8837]

They can, but they use an unlawful database...aka gun registry. It does exist. Tho it's not as complete as they want. They're trying to track private sales and turn us all into FFLs or criminals.

[@BetterTextLex]

True. It is also difficult to trace a gun to the shooter when it was privately sold by a non-FFL, purchased illegally, or the serial number has been defaced. The only benefit from tracing js that it may lead to the last public sale of a firearm by an FFL.

[@mortimersnerd5172]

@@BetterTextLex most all of the illegal guns coming across the border with the unstoppable drug shipments can't be traced anyway. They come from all around the world and aren't registered in the US. The ATF controls the manufacture, importation and distribution of all legal firearms in the US. They know which gun store bought which gun with which serial number and who the store sold that gun to.

[@Killso420]

facts

[@arghyachatterjee3008]

@@mortimersnerd5172 That's not accurate. Most illegal firearms that can be traced in the Americas (North and South) source primarily from the US. Legal gun sales are extremely restricted with tight goverment control in the rest of the Americas. Most countries use a dual licensing/registration system where a person has to be licensed to own a firearm and the firearm also need to be registered with the police. This is usually one time of license where bribery will not get you one if you are a documented felon. Police doesn't like guns in the hands of people whom they may have to face some day on the street.

[@matts375]

I don't recall anywhere in the Constitution where the word hunting is mentioned. Maybe these experts can help with that.

[@BlyatBlaster]

4:38 right here. Dir. Dettelbach just lied, right here. The wording of the NFA was that qualifying weapons were “unusual AND dangerous.” Not “unusually dangerous.” For a weapon to meet the restrictions under the NFA it had/has to be both “unusual” AND “dangerous.” A pistol brace, with millions in circulation on the hands of average Americans, is not remotely “unusual.” This also falls under the Heller ruling that the second amendment covers weapons “in common usage.” He’s lying right to you, and you’re eating it right up.

[@djpaul213]

It's so hard to watch this. My last 2 brain cells are about to leave.

[@ffarmchicken]

Haha, so true.

[@niospartan]

Wait till someone tells the atf director making your own firearms in the u.s. is legal as long as you don't sell them.

[@Marinealver]

In Palpatine's voice "I WILL MAKE IT ILLEGAL"

[@BullittGT40]

The so called ATF expert who can't even breakdown a Glock, one of the easiest guns to disassemble, failed to mention that it is perfectly legal for American's to build their own firearms.

[@bthemedia]

He did say “PMF” in the video… but failed to define it as Privately Made Firearm - or note that it is has been legal to do so in America since even before the Bill of Rights

[@capt_mersh6073]

**'We know the cartels have these weapons because we are the ones supplying them'**

[@AntiMatter1]

The expert can’t take one gun apart. And said this one won’t come apart.

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

Probably because they dont issue Glocks to Experts or the ATF!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Dutchbrother07]

He did take one apart tho. A few seconds after he had trouble with the first one (it’s not his firearm and he has not had the opportunity to familiarize himself with its quirks, as all guns have)

[@downandout992]

​@@Citizen2ACitizenLLCYou are so clueless it's laughable. Glocks are issued to military and police forces worldwide. Clarks are not my favorite handgun, but give credit where credit is due. But I guess by your way of thinking people who qualify as experts due to their marksmanship are not real experts, but political hacks are.

[@downandout992]

​@@Citizen2ACitizenLLCyour comment is so off base that it's laughable. Glocks are issued to military and police departments worldwide. But by your way of thinking people who use a Glock and qualify at an expert level due to their marksmanship are not the real experts, but yourself and some political hack are.

[@LucaniaTheGreat]

@@Dutchbrother07nah dont make excuses. i own a p80 allegedly and it is the same as any other glock, when it comes to breaking it down.

[@MMccloud]

I spent 14 yrs as a tactical officer in Texas and part of the cartel task force. Never did my team or any other team I know of find an M249 or Barrett .50……..never

[@ThePeachtree69]

And likely never will find one. This is all part of the lefts fevered dream to instill fear via a Hollywood style script.

[@Will97675]

The idiots in this interview are fear mongering. There’s a lot of people watching this that don’t have a clue about weapons. They take these “experts” at their word.

[@MMccloud]

@@Will97675you are correct sir, I’m not even mad anymore just really sad people buy into this crap

[@riggingpots3453]

The expert that can't even dissamblr the glock..or make the fake frame actually viable....seems like bs to me

[@roberthall2401]

The expert cant take a gun apart, hahahaha.

[@ryancray238]

Everyone in that room has no clue about anything

[@aarongingrich3831]

"government use only" When government allows itself to do things it does not allow its citizens to do, that is the very definition of tyranny.

[@krow7402]

"Government use only," And the Government is "We the people," I think that's permission enough! Full auto's back on the menu, boys!

[@stephencolley334]

Short sighted /incomplete /misleading definition of TYRANNY!🤢🤢🤢

[@grifdenton5224]

@@stephencolley334 Ok. Give us your definition of Tyranny then.

[@ffarmchicken]

I have a “government use only” marked Bushmaster. 😊

[@edwardboe7290]

​@@grifdenton5224It's rule by one despotic ruler.

[@ramonasp4989]

I got OUT of Law Enforcement BECAUSE they put ONLY "leaders' WITH Degrees IN Charge INSTEAD of Leaders who had DID THE JOB and Knew about it! A degree is a piece of paper that is USELESS if you have NEVER PERFORMED THE JOB IT APPLYS TO!!

[@smokecreekstudio7320]

ATF like … no one sells the cartel guns except us.. don’t even try hahaha

[@American-FOB]

Eric and Barrack know all about weapons flowing from the US into Mexico. They forgot to mention how the ATF approved pistol braces for over 10 years, until #46 decided he wanted the 40+ million of them off the streets.

[@pasqualezarro5216]

This has got to be the most disingenuous, conniving 21 minutes I have ever seen produced by our legacy media. Dettlebach needs to be removed for sheer incompetency and complete lack of knowledge.

[@NoName-tq9fi]

I don't know which is worse, the outright lying and intentional misrepresentation made by government officials, or the complicitness of the mass media in letting those officials spread such total BS with zero pushback or fact-checking.

[@colddeadhand7414]

Well, the media is chocked plum full of CIA assets....so there's that. 😂😂

[@ericm1402]

That George Jetson fellow looks like a Kirby Vacum salesman.

[@nnerd]

No one is using berret 50 clas and M240s in the streets.

[@glowbro1895]

That's an M249 with a para stock but I get you.

[@lukesweeney3736]

Nope, but they sure do look scary

[@nnerd]

@@glowbro1895 oop you right its been a long day

[@stephencolley334]

BUT, they possess them with the INTENT of availability for future use!😡

[@brittanycompton9150]

​@@stephencolley334What?

[@j.angelis6934]

I would just like to remind everyone that the shooter in Las Vegas was a former IRS Agent with severe mental health issues. There are many things that could have been done before the shooting to prevent him from acquiring the weapons. The system failed us and the innocent victims. You can't blame bump stocks (which were legally approved by the ATF for 10 years+ previously) for the evil that men do .. and then use that as an excuse to take away our ability to not only defend ourselves but to also enjoy the sporting aspect of shooting and training. Pistols become more accurate with a brace or a stock... they don't become more dangerous for innocent civilians. These kind of misleading interviews should be followed up by equal representation with people who actually know what the facts are and are familiar with firearms. The public is being Hoodwinked with this type of propaganda.

[@shawnpritchard366]

The system allowed it.

[@jimketchum3169]

It wasn't an AK or AR with a bump stock. It was an M240 belt-fed machine gun.

[@randymagnum143]

​@@jimketchum3169I mean, that's certainly what they first reported.

[@jimketchum3169]

​@@randymagnum143I guess I missed that. Guess it don't matter though. The scary black rifle is the objective here...

[@jimketchum3169]

​@@randymagnum143Any chance you've got a source for that?

[@randallpowell5456]

Tell her about all the times the atf sold the cartels firearms come on Mr atf director don't leave out information tell everyone about operation fast and furious

[@TannerSwizel]

I like how every thing on the table supposedly has a NFA get-around counterpart with it on the table, except say the bolt action Barret that is neither NFA or a get-around, and the m249 that is $13,000 just for the semi variant and wasn't touched the entire interview since it's just to scare the "weapons of war" folks into believing the full auto variant is flooding our streets(fun fact the 2A is useless in its purpose if it doesn't allow weapons of war), or the gawdy 1911 style cartel capper that has no reason to be on there except to say "cartel bad, ban all guns so cartel still bad". I'll grant the "expert" a micrometer of slack for not knowing how to strip a glock slide, it probably had a switch, but given that glock switches are probably the most common full auto get-around in the wild one would think the top "expert" going after these devices would know how to strip a slide with one. If they keep up this shenanigans it'll only be easier for groups like GOA, NAGR, and FPC to destroy the NFA and the full auto ban in the FOPA, so they should keep up the good work of looking like squeamish idiots afraid of touching the very devices they seek to destroy

[@palmereldrich8863]

This atf "expert" is so incompetent he would be kicked out of almost any range in America before getting a shot off.

[@practicalshooter6517]

Those two experts are ether lying or ignorant of the law. They made many unprofessional mistakes.

[@Citizen2ACitizenLLC]

It appears to be both

[@skeyestudio5707]

Like our current administration, they don’t care. As long as it puts votes in their corner, the lying, ignorance, and misinformation are all justified. Pure propaganda.

[@Marinealver]

I would say more of the former than the latter, but I also agree that Both is likely.

[@bigchrisp6173]

“Kickup”? It’s called recoil. Also, there’s no saint of drug traffickers. Her name is Santa Muerte, and she is a saint in Mexican folk catholicism, and neopaganism associated with healing, protection, and safe passage to the afterlife. She is often associated with death because of her appearance even though the Bible depicts angels the same exact way which is why the angels say “don’t be afraid” as they lift up your soul to purgatory.

[@matts375]

"Fully automatic" LOL, its just called automatic. What experts.

[@hunterrogers5638]

The only problem I see here is 3 tyrants

[@ThatAppalachian]

The comments section knows more than these tyrant scumbags

[@KaiseruSoze]

As the US govt. (congress, president, supreme court) loses trust, the more the civilians will need to protect themselves. Illegal is a relative term.

[@colddeadhand7414]

Exactly, when criminals are making and interpreting law, becoming an outlaw becomes duty.

[@billycarr1254]

@ 4:38, a real journalist would've asked "and why does that combination (short length & fireable from the shoulder) make the firearm especially dangerous?" That would force them to discuss velocity loss, 1930's gang culture, pistols (ie: handguns) and then it's a completely different conversation.

[@edgarolivo13]

You can feel the ulterior motive and manipulation in their speech and body language

[@MastroAdventures]

These are all legal firearms for citizens to OWN... Thanks God for America and the Constitution.

[@jordanwayne7316]

Take a shot everytime you hear the word “right”

[@constitutionalright827]

Amazing how little the "experts" in firearms know about them... Truly terrifying and embarrassing for them.

[@BucksDCable]

I'd pay that dude $1000 if he could build that frame in 20 min.

[@domingofung]

He makes 100 times more for Not building it.....😂

[@yourlifeisagreatstory]

He was being highly misleading. He said “pieces can be printed in 20 minutes…” but he failed to continue that it would take a day or two (or longer) to print and make it safe to fire.

[@dobber43]

​@@yourlifeisagreatstoryalso a good printer where it wouldn't fall apart would cost a couple hundred. And knowing enough about printers to dial them in right not a 20 min task for sure

[@user-pl6yi1bi7m]

Lol. Just a bunch of clueless people having a conversation

[@air-1579]

In all of history, no firearm has ever loaded and fired on it' s own

[@Rdenham1976]

It's really easy to prove your point when you can lead an idiot around by the nose telling them whatever you want them to believe.

[@cameronater1747]

“You wouldn’t use that for hunting” Well what the hell does hunting have to do with anything?

[@roaddemon20011]

The ATF has nine different task forces.. 10 if you count the one that gives guns to the cartel.. operation Fast and Furious, director. Don't forget you guys are the ones giving guns to the cartel..

[@bobbywilson9468]

FACTS 🙏🏼💪🏽💯!!!

[@Marinealver]

How many task forces are the for Alcohol and Tobacco?

[@clapity5611]

ATF: “will keep firing until there are no more bullets.” simple version: Until the magazine is empty.

[@TheRealZJM377]

Dam just imagine if that was a 1911 he was trying to get the slide off .