No one at the ATF has ever been prosecuted, much less meaningfully punished, for these abuses. But punishing individual agents will not solve the underlying problem. Until the ATF is abolished, or its firearms regulatory authority is removed, these abuses will continue.
Federal firearms regulation rests on the government’s claimed authority to tax and regulate what is, in fact, a constitutional right. No constitutional right should require a tax, a permit, or government permission before it can be exercised.
Patrick Tate Adamiak is starting his fourth year of a 20-year federal prison sentence even though he broke no law and committed no crime.
That sad fact leads almost every discussion about the 31-year-old who had no prior criminal history. The public’s attention has been rightfully focused on freeing him from his undeserved incarceration, not on the ATF agents who wrongfully put him in a prison cell for two decades.
As most of you know, Joe Biden’s ATF lied about what their confidential informant had purchased from Adamiak. They lied again to obtain a search warrant of Adamiak’s property. They found nothing illegal while executing their search warrant, so they lied yet again about the legal items they found in order to obtain a conviction.
By Lee Williams
