AGs against ATF Arbitrary actions

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    Trappemann said:
    And I can't believe we are the only 2 who GAS!
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    We've been trained. When a minority of the states' AGs sign a joint letter or file a motion or suit that appeals to us, it almost universally goes nowhere. Because the thing they're fighting against is almost always being championed by those in executive power or those who hold the national legislature, and they just do not care. They know it might get challenged in federal court based on the arguments presented in such a multi-AG letter or action, but they also know that they have a bottomless pit of money with which to pay left-leaning DoJ lawyers to fight such a challenge, and they know it will drag out for literally years. They can get a lot of their damage done in the meantime, and get to watch red states blow a lot of money and energy fighting against the feds.

    So it's not that we're not happy to mark the event of that letter being sent, and not that we don't applaud the well crafted (and it is!) content of that letter. It's that there is pretty much zero expectation that the lefty-run ATF will give a single fvck that the letter was sent. Because they are just doing what the administration wants: making things miserable for conservatives generally, and going after the low-hanging fruit of making 2A people miserable specifically.

    We should be VERY glad that Trump got hundreds of new constitutionalist federal judges seated, and three decent SCOTUS justices. The excitement will come when this ATF rule change is challenged in front of one of them, not when this voice-in-the-wilderness letter is summarily tossed in the trash by the ATF, who really, REALLY don't care one bit what you or any state AG think about anything.

    Not trying to be a downer, here. Just realistic. This letter will go nowhere in terms of changing who the ATF understands themselves to work for, so while it's interesting to read the quality arguments involved, it's all going to have to come down to an actual law suit anyway, later.
     
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