History of the ATF 4: Learning all the Wrong Lessons

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Our long-running series of long explorations into past ATF activities finally makes it to current day! And what may surprise you are the ways that bad laws, bad assumptions, and deep ignorance continue to cause tension and resentment... in and out of the Bureau. We also finally address the question of what happens to good ATF agents trying to do their duty.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the T-Rex Talk Spotify channel.
0:04.0	This is not a new episode. This is going to be episode four of our history of the ATF.
0:08.0	Just got back from Shoshow where I organized some new original podcasts.
0:12.0	You're going to look forward to, but for now, we're going to talk about the ATF.
0:17.0	By the way, this is just for you, Spotify listeners.
0:20.0	Actually went to their booth and talked to them at Shoshow this year.
0:24.4	Uh, it was kind of interesting.
0:29.9	Welcome back to the history of the ATF trilogy.
0:35.8	And this is episode four of the trilogy, even though we're only
0:39.9	doing a overview and we're barely scratching the surface of just a few incidents. This is still
0:45.8	taken a lot longer than I planned. However, I do think that this is important stuff to understand
0:51.2	today. Judging from the comments on the previous three episodes,
0:55.0	there are a lot of young people who are learning this stuff for the first time. So, let's get into it. Let's have a quick recap.
1:13.6	In episode one, we talked about prohibition as a failed experiment, a catastrophic failure
1:20.4	on a number of levels, 14 years of very destructive failure that was overturned by the people.
1:27.0	Did the proponents of big government learn from this failure?
1:30.3	No, the 1934 NFA was enacted the very next year, and it has nothing to do with alcohol,
1:35.3	but it was based on the exact same idea that social problems are solved by government action.
1:42.3	And the strategy was the same, remove the rights of many law-abiding
1:46.2	citizens to address the actions of a few criminals. Then in episode two, we talked about the results of
1:53.6	that. The ATFs pivot from alcohol to firearms as their new primary focus. The 1968 gun control
2:00.3	act was even worse than the NFA, and the ATF's behavior
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