Another round of rumors is swirling around the controversial Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
According to a Reuters report, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering merging the ATF with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in a move that it believes would “achieve efficiencies in resources, case deconfliction, and regulatory efforts.”
The March 25 memo from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche added that agency leaders are also considering “eliminating field offices that handle antitrust, environmental and civil cases.”
The New York Times wrote that the major move would likely require congressional approval.
The change would continue the new administration’s effort to streamline the federal government. FBI Director Kash Patel currently serves in the dual role of acting director of the ATF.
President Donald Trump nominated Terry Cole to run the DEA; his confirmation is pending. A permanent head of the ATF has not been named.
The agency came under fierce fire from Second Amendment advocates during the previous administration for what many believed was outright hostility to gun rights. Several ATF actions were condemned as infringing on the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
The suggested move immediately drew criticism from a broad range of advocacy groups. Anti-gun organization Giffords’ Executive Director Emma Brown likened the change to “literally defunding the police.”
Justice Connection is a new group supporting DOJ employees during this period of upheaval in the federal government. Founder and Executive Director Stacey Young criticized the move as one that would harm authorities’ “ability to combat gun violence [and] the fentanyl epidemic.”
Critics of the current administration were not the only voices against the proposal.
Pro-gun rights advocacy group Gun Owners of America (GOA) blasted the suggestion. GOA posted on X that merging the ATF and DEA “would be a DISASTER for gun owners and the Second Amendment.”
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