This. If ATF wants something changed, they write the legislation as "experts" (like Guy Relford does) and then gives it to the legislative branch to pass it. That is how this should work. Notice the two big ones (GCA/NFA) arent rules by the NFA but actual legislation?"Rule" making, by unelected bureaucrats, that have the weight of law needs to stop. If an agency believes the law should be changed, re-interpreted or otherwise amended, they should put that in writing to the legislators. The lawmakers can then take a vote. I realize the legal argument that congress created the bureaucracies to work in their stead, but it's gone too far. In this particular case the ATF has done nothing more than 'change their collective mind'. They are literally outlawing on a Monday what they said, in writing, was legal the previous Friday. You don't like it? You don't want to play along? You're a felon and the full, sometimes deadly, weight of the federal government will be used to force your compliance. That, IMO, is tyranny. A whimsical creation of law benefitting the king. It's a ****ing brace!!
At best they should have nothing more than enforcement and investigation duties. And honestly, the FBI could probably handle that as well. Disband the BATFE and move the A, T, and E investigators to the FBI.