The bad thing is that its making the whole BATFE look bad to the American public.For the most part, the people who are in leadership positions within ATF makes me want to puke.
Id expect to see demands for defunding more and more as the mainstream media realizes they have no choice but to get this story out.
This has avalanched the last 6 months or so. I could tell early on based on this forum and elsewhere that this was huge, but I had no clue just how big it was until the last 60 days or so.
The public isnt likely to see upper management being the issue...we just dont get into things enough to make those discernments most fo the time.
What WE see is 'the BATFE is full of criminals'...and because we dont take the time to understand the WHOLE issue we want the whole thing shut down instead of just going after the ones who did the wrong.
The ATF has really gotten itself a bad reputation over the years in the public eye.
And honestly, things like these new regulations it keeps trying to push arent going to help at all.
If the ATF was smart it would seriously back down on trying to bring any new rules for owning or buying guns right now and do some damage control to let Americans know that it ISNT our enemy...because quite frankly the public, especially 80 some odd million gun owners, arent seeing the ATF in any sort of positive light at all.
The good thing is the fine folks here who have shown that there ARE honest ATF agents out there.
The down side is pretty much no one is seeing this forum.
Ive tried to get the word out as much as I can so more people can read here and see that many ATF personnel are great people. But it will take a lot more than a few links for it to happen. All we see right now is horrible stories about the ATF sending guns into Mexico and getting people killed. That certainly isnt helping the ATF image at all. If there were some way to get THIS forum out there for more gun owners to see....
