Lately the ATF must have been having the blues and reminiscing about the good ol' days when they could get some solid trigger time on some innocent Americans instead of just yelling at them and stealing their stuff, because just a couple of months ago they raided the home of Bryan Malinowski and shot and killed him.
Malinowski, executive director of the Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, was an avid gun collector and would frequent gun shows to buy and sell firearms with other private individuals, which is completely legal and does not require an FFL. His frequent buying and selling of guns prompted the ATF to consider him as "Engaging in the business of selling firearms" and therefore violating a federal law by not having an FFL. They thus obtained a search warrant and proceeded to serve it in the most dangerous way possible.
Rep. Jim Jordan argued that the ATF was being over-zealous with its recent increased rate of revocations of FFLs. Rep. Dan Goldman expressed his anger that they were "Criticizing the ATF because they retaliated with deadly force" after someone shot an ATF agent.
Later in a separate hearing with ATF Director Steven Dettelbach, Jordan put Dettelbach's feet to the proverbial fire by questioning him about the policy of federal officers while executing search warrants to have body cameras on, which were distinctly missing in the Malinowski incident.
Of course, when the ATF issues its various arbitrary and capricious rulings, such as the infamous bump-stock, pistol-brace, and frame-definition rules, we common plebs must obviously comply immediately or face the prospect of federal charges, while the ATF itself can take its sweet time to implement something as novel and intricate as body cameras! How convenient it must be to be the enforcer of one's own rules.
In the end, I think the ATF is unlikely to face any consequences of note for breaking into an innocent American's house and murdering him.
In typical government fashion, the only thing that is really clarified is the fact that the ATF intends to further confuse the public and exercise increasingly arbitrary power to terrorize and prosecute American gun owners.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/atf-has-resumed-openly-murdering-americans
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