01-14-2023, 04:17 AM
ATF is suggesting that it loses about $250 million per year in tax stamp revenue primarily over pistol-braced ARs for which people are not paying the $200 tax stamp under NFA. Yet, DOJ and ATF, pursuant to ATF Final Rule 2021R-08F (circulating on the Internet today) are prepared to waive the $200 tax stamp if one eforms registers a pistol-braced AR within 120 days presumably from this Monday. So, the motivation does not appear to be revenue based, butt rather registration based (which we all knew).
I, too, am not concerned with 87,000 IRS agents. There are plans to increase the Criminal Investigation Division of IRS to about 4,000 special agents who are armed; however, I very much doubt that they will be snooping around gun ranges, etc., to help enforce 2021R-08F out of fear of their presence not being taken to very kindly.
What is of some concern is that a commercial property realtor friend in Southwest Virginia received a flyer not long ago wherein ATF was soliciting real property managers with a commercial real estate background to manage federally owned or processed properties. Being a retired LE, I thought that this was to manage asset forfeitures by ATF to include real property seizures. Nope. The flyer was to manage ATF occupied office space within the Washington, D.C. Field Office (and I'm sure elsewhere throughout the country). Typically, such properties are managed and overseen by GSA. So, that tells me that the ATF solicitation of office space property managers is future planning where ATF's presence is to be vastly expanded.
Incidentally, I worked with old-school ATF Agents over the years. Their emphasis in the vast majority of cases was "G and G" (Gangs and Guns); not what we have going today.
I, too, am not concerned with 87,000 IRS agents. There are plans to increase the Criminal Investigation Division of IRS to about 4,000 special agents who are armed; however, I very much doubt that they will be snooping around gun ranges, etc., to help enforce 2021R-08F out of fear of their presence not being taken to very kindly.
What is of some concern is that a commercial property realtor friend in Southwest Virginia received a flyer not long ago wherein ATF was soliciting real property managers with a commercial real estate background to manage federally owned or processed properties. Being a retired LE, I thought that this was to manage asset forfeitures by ATF to include real property seizures. Nope. The flyer was to manage ATF occupied office space within the Washington, D.C. Field Office (and I'm sure elsewhere throughout the country). Typically, such properties are managed and overseen by GSA. So, that tells me that the ATF solicitation of office space property managers is future planning where ATF's presence is to be vastly expanded.
Incidentally, I worked with old-school ATF Agents over the years. Their emphasis in the vast majority of cases was "G and G" (Gangs and Guns); not what we have going today.