Let the ATF know how you feel!!

[alsaqr]

The responses to the BATFE study are posted for all to see on the BATFE website:

http://www.atf.gov/about/foia/shotgun-study-responses/0306-shotgun-study-responses.pdf

BTW: All US government regulatory agencies post the comments.

 

[daorhgih]

The Straw-man is ready, and waiting to put the "hand-writing" on the wall.

quote: "... can always be found one egregious example to twist the emotions ..." As I see it, an attempt to harm the first family will be set up by "The Powers That Be" to provide that egregious example , by using some clueless ultra-right or fascist skin-head dupes, hairy-scary-biker -- you know, the kind of guy everyone loves to hate -- with fire-arms, for their cause of a rebellious "New Natural Nation". A show-trial will be pulled off, with swift justice, especially against The Evil Guns, and the verdict will serve to further inflame the powder-keg of Citizen ignorance and prejudices. The whole act will be a front for the Alphabet-Nazis and their JBTs to begin wiping their stinky parts with The Constitution, state by state, city by city, house by house, citizen by citizen. On another subject: what is the easiest way to bar a window from the inside, permanently. Thanks.

 

[RightCoastBiased]

Why does an firearm need to be sporting in order to own it? I didn't see that in the constitution.

 

[Maverick223]

The following was resurrected from the missing sector of the thread (see announcement for details):

Your letters and comments become part of the record. That is the way things work in the Federal government. It has been this way for a long time.

I can't help but notice that they redacted dirty language...yet they included personal information, which was required per their instructions.

 

[hso]

I received my BATFE "Thank you for responding..." email.

U.S. Department of Justice
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives


Dear Sir or Madame:
Thank you for responding to the Shotgun Study. Your assistance will further promote ATF’s ability to support the firearms industry. We will review and consider your comments and suggestions.
If you have any questions, you may contact the Firearms and Explosives Industry Division @ 202-648-7090. Once again, thank you for your email.

Firearms and Explosives Industry Division
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

For those that would not participate because of sloth or fear, your voices have not been heard and your influence will be smaller than if you had at least made the minimal effort to post a cogent comment that the elected and appointed officials might have been made aware of. Being afraid of getting on some list or being too disillusioned or lazy to "waste your time commenting" is a pathetic excuse for not exercising your right to be heard when critical 2A issues like this come up.

If you're afraid of getting on some list for commenting on government absurdity, guess what, you might as well consider yourself on some list for being here at all. If you just didn't care enough to respond, but spend your time complaining here, then you're doubly wasting your time because there were numerous letter templates available to comment with that only required the effort to copy and paste and send.

Of the 516 pages of responses -

1 response was blank
2 were 4 pages
4 were 3 pages
4 were from "nuts" (2X2 pages, 1x3, 1x4 for 11 pages of nuttyness that contributed nothing)
41 responses were spam (24X1 pages,14x2 pages, 2X3 pages, 1X5 pages for 61 pages of spam)

Of all the 400+ real response, I don't recall any that supported the ATF study. They all criticized it or the basis behind it.
It would have been good to see at least another 10 or 100 or 1,000 gun owners paste a copied opinion into an email and send it to the BATFE before they recommended a ban on the importation of more firearms.

 

[alsaqr]

Those comments are the ones that were received by 6 March, 2011.

http://www.atf.gov/about/foia/atf-submissions-for-public-comment.html

 

[Bubbles]

Wow. Gun owners need to use spellcheck more.