12-21-2018, 06:41 AM
montana Wrote:Poor choice of words on my part, "my apologies". It is the "people" in the bureaucracies that can get thrown under the bus, not the actual bureaucracy. Even then it is done with much caution as not to start a snowball effect. Admiral James O. Richardson is a good example of such a fall guy, covering up for the real guilty parties. Bureaucracies are the enforcers for the political parties and true change will never occur until the majority understand this truth. I have never seen any leadership in a position of power, "willingly undermined that source of power" which are the bureaucracies.Government and society cannot function without the bureaucracies. In any case, all the complaining about various bureaucratic misdeeds is off topic.
More importantly, none of you are discussing the elephant in the room. The ATF did not initiate this issue. It is Trump who is responsible for this ban.
"I signed a memorandum directing the Attorney General to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns." ~ Donald Trump, 20 Feb 2018
"The President once again fulfilling a promise he made to the American people, and this morning the acting Attorney General signed the final rule making clear that bump stocks are illegal." ~ Sarah Sanders, 18 Dec 2018