BATFE Director B. Todd Jones resigns

[Thermactor]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/20/atf-director-b-todd-jones-resigns/25081713/

Breaking news.

"Throughout his tenure ... Todd Jones has cemented his reputation as an exemplary leader, a consummate professional and an outstanding public servant,'' Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiep...ning-controversy-over-ammo-ban-cited-n1973746

B. Todd Jones will be resigning from his position as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and accepting private sector employment with the National Football League, gun dealer compliance and legal protection firm FFLGuard claimed in a Thursday advisory. The report, while as yet not corroborated, is consistent with information Gun Rights Examiner has been investigating, including by attempting earlier today to obtain confirmation from ATF.

Remember that the next time you go cheering for your football team. The NFL hired him.

 

[MErl]

In other news the administration has tapped Dan Gross of the Brady Campaign as a replacement.

(Not true but until we know a replacement we don't know whether to cheer or cry)

 

[Thermactor]

No cheer or cry. Just like Eric Holder's replacement Loretta Lynch, these are point people for an administration with an agenda, and it matters not who may be at the helm at a given moment. They take orders and read a script like they are supposed to.

 

[MachIVshooter]

No cheer or cry. Just like Eric Holder's replacement Loretta Lynch, these are point people for an administration with an agenda, and it matters not who may be at the helm at a given moment. They take orders and read a script like they are supposed to.

True, although Jones was a particularly dislikable arrogant prick.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

True, although Jones was a particularly dislikable arrogant prick.

They All are...

 

[wendellgj]

consummate professional puppet

 

[Erik M]

In my younger days I never imagined that the biggest chip on federal law enforcements shoulder would become the law abiding gun owner. As for Jones and Lynch, they never seem to run out of these people. What a time to be alive.

 

[Bartholomew Roberts]

According to one of the industry groups, the acting temporary director at least has a reputation of listening to FFLs and they anticipate him being an improvement.

 

[CoalTrain49]

Ain't that a hoot? Less than 2 years on the job. Does senate get to confirm a new director? I know that post was vacant for awhile after the last ATF debacle. Maybe this is the beginning of the end for the ATF. I could use a break from those boot licking bureaucratic drones.

 

[Sol]

Moving on to greener pastures... Or fields in this case.

 

[Blade First]

Jones resigning at ATF...

Will be gone by end of month. Total comments re: M855 reported to be in excess of 300,000 !

"...Deputy Director Tom Brandon will serve as Acting Director upon my departure." - Jones


ref: Katie Pavlich @ Townhall.com

 

[JFrame]

One statist down, a million to go...

As noted further above, another statist pawn will simply be inserted in his place.

It seems like this lame duck administration is making every executive push they can hatch up to attack the 2A and general rights of gun-owners from every angle possible.

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[JSH1]

Ain't that a hoot? Less than 2 years on the job. Does senate get to confirm a new director? I know that post was vacant for awhile after the last ATF debacle. Maybe this is the beginning of the end for the ATF. I could use a break from those boot licking bureaucratic drones.

Prior to Todd Jones, there hadn't been a confirmed ATF Director since 2006. Instead they had an "acting" director that did the job without the title. (Jones was acting director for 2 years before finally being confirmed as Director). One way or another there will be a head of the ATF.

 

[wojownik]

Will be gone by end of month. Total comments re: M855 reported to be in excess of 300,000 !

"...Deputy Director Tom Brandon will serve as Acting Director upon my departure." - Jones


ref: Katie Pavlich @ Townhall.com

Tom Brandon ... Before serving as DD, Brandon served as the Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division, directing ATF field operations in AZ and NM.

As deputy director, Brandon was also in charge of personnel during Fast and Furious and oversaw the decision that nobody was ever really punished.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Tom Brandon ... Before serving as DD, Brandon served as the Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division, directing ATF field operations in AZ and NM.

As deputy director, Brandon was also in charge of personnel during Fast and Furious and oversaw the decision that nobody was ever really punished.

That doesn't bode well for us gunners - or anyone else for that matter. My guess is he'll be just another bought and paid for shill for Obama.

Woody

 

[vamo]

Remember that the next time you go cheering for your football team. The NFL hired him.

I might just send Roger Godell a thank you letter for getting him out of the government.

But seriously why in the world should my opinion of the NFL change 1 bit over this. Should people we disagree with politically never work in the private sector again? I have a problem with his policy decisions and nothing against him personally I could care less where he works now that hes out of a policy making position.

 

[Blade First]

Yes, that's the same Tom Brandon, and he will serve as yet another acting director for some period of time before the specter of appearance before congressional committees is so daunting that he, too, will disappear.

Wish it were otherwise...you couldn't pop enough popcorn or lay in an adequate supply of beer.

Our response to the BATboys is a smackdown of rather larger proportion. Let's not forget how it's done...'cause we'll have to do it again.

 

[hso]

And for the Quislings who told us to lay down and take it because we were powerless to influence the BATFE and stop M855 from being banned...THAT'S how you drive the point home after a fed agency oversteps! You make certain that the agency and Administration clearly understand that OUR elected officials control the purse strings and that they can be opened generously or cinch tight as a garrott.

 

[OilyPablo]

So they purposely hire people who are against our Constitution? That's nice to know.

 

[bigride]

It's time for this whole "bureau" to disappear.

 

[longknife12]

Rest assured, they will find someone twice as rabid!
Dan

 

[Blade First]

Am I aggravated that you are almost always correct in your logic? Of course not, because you are almost always correct in your logic. Which leads to the proper conclusion on the present situation:

The bureau must be defunded and disassembled in short order. It represents one of the worst federal agencies because its "power" threatens the most important and fundamental, God-given right which protects all the others.

Momentum is a powerful thing...let's keep it for our cause.

 

[bannockburn]

hso

I like how you used the name Quislings to describe these duplicitous bureaucratic puppets. Most befitting in describing these arrogant and malevolent "public servants" as they do their master's bidding in trying to circumvent our Constitutional Rights.

 

[hso]

I was referring to our own Quislings here at THR who told us there was nothing we could do.

 

[PCFlorida]

I suspect HSO is a History buff.