Kyle Rittenhouse Calls on Congress to Abolish ATF After Agency’s ‘Firearm Expert’ Fails to Fieldstrip a Glock

Kyle Rittenhouse posted a video to X in which he blasted ATF “firearm expert” Chris Bort for failing to fieldstrip a Glock handgun during a recent Face the Nation appearance.

Rittenhouse fieldstripped a Glock handgun as he spoke into the camera and, once he had the slide separated from the frame, called on Congress to “abolish the ATF.”

The ATF is a joke. #AbolishTheATF pic.twitter.com/kmXyHEZlbO

— Kyle Rittenhouse (@ThisIsKyleR) March 12, 2024

Breitbart News reported that the ATF’s Bort tried to disassemble a Glock handgun during a March 3, 2024, appearance on Face the Nation. His goal was to show how easy it is for criminals to take various gun parts and assemble them into firearms which Democrats refer to as “ghost guns.”

Ironically, Bort was not able to fieldstrip the Glock so he moved on to a second pistol which he was able to take apart. However, having taken it apart, he was not able to match the slide with a different frame therefore, he never showed how easy it is for criminals to build “ghost guns.”

WATCH: Chris Bort—the acting chief of the ATF's Firearms Ammunition Technology Division—struggled at disassembling a Glock style handgun during a made-for-tv scaremongering interview with Steven Dettelbach, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on CBS News. pic.twitter.com/rzcZ0lFGmB

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 4, 2024

ATF director Steven Dettelbach began talking to the Face the Nation reporter after Bort’s failed sequences and, as he did, Bort picked up the handgun he had initially failed to disassemble and tried again to take it apart. He failed again.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.