How did this event with the ATF happen?
“That’s easy to answer. The ATF needs numbers to justify its existence. Each agent has to produce cases in order to justify their existence. They’re training is ridiculous.
A Q&A with retired ATF Senior Special Agent Daniel O’Kelly
Retired ATF Senior Special Agent Daniel O’Kelly has personally examined more than 100,000 firearms and even more ammunition during his 34 years in law enforcement – 10 years as a police officer and detective in northwest Indiana and 24 years with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
O’Kelly is a true firearm expert.
When he became an ATF Special Agent in 1988, he was responsible for investigating arson, bombings, explosives, organized crime and drug trafficking, but the agency soon realized he was capable of far more. O’Kelly was certified as an expert firearm witness in federal court in 1990. Ten year later, he was chosen to serve as ATF’s Resident Agent in Charge of the State of Delaware. He has served as the firearm instructor coordinator of ATF’s Tampa Field Division. He became the chief firearm technology instructor at ATF’s National Academy, where he wrote the firearm technology course for ATF personnel, which is still in use today. He even served undercover and arrested international gun traffickers in Europe and was later was placed in charge of ATF’s undercover training program – back when graduates would target motorcycle gangs.
Today, O’Kelly is director of the International Firearm Specialist Academy located in Grand Island, Florida. His clients include prosecutors and defense attorneys, law enforcement agencies, gun dealers and firearm manufacturers, importers and collectors.
By Lee Williams
