Director Robert Cekada has remolded the ATF into a more 2A-friendly agency and Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is responding by pressing New York lawmakers to pass state-level gun controls to replace federal controls repealed or altered by the ATF.
Robert Cekada told Breitbart that he sped up approval processes for Virginians trying to buy guns before that state’s gun ban took effect.
The Washington Post noted that gun control lobby “experts” are saying Trump’s rollback of gun control could lead to “mass casualty events.”
During Thursday’s House Oversight Committee hearing regarding “Privacy Protections and the Second Amendment,” ATF Director Robert Cekada said the Second Amendment was written so citizens could “protect themselves from a tyrannical government.”
During Thursday’s House Oversight Committee hearing regarding “Privacy Protections and the Second Amendment,” Rep. Summer Lee (D) suggested the ATF has been captured by the gun industry.
NRA executive vice president and CEO Doug Hamlin talked exclusively with Breitbart News and assured us that “the Trump administration is in lockstep with the pro-Second Amendment movement.”
Breitbart News was at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) when Robert Cekada was sworn in Monday, and he sat down with us afterward to talk about growing up hunting with his dad, owning numerous AR-15s, and valuing the importance of an armed citizenry.
Breitbart News noted that ATF Director Robert Cekada signed a rulemaking package Wednesday afternoon and it contained a “clarifying amendment” that would require would-be gun buyers to select their biological sex on Form 4473.
Robert Cekada was confirmed as ATF Director Wednesday afternoon and began his tenure by rolling back and/or revising Biden-era gun regs.
Acting AG Todd Blanche presided over the signing of a “landmark rulemaking package” that rolls back numerous gun regulations enacted under Biden.
During Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, ATF director nominee Robert Cekada stressed, “The ATF’s mission is not to burden lawful gun owners.”
Congress received on Tuesday President Trump’s nomination of Robert Cekada to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
