January 09, 2025 09:52 AM UTC

Boebert Proposes Bill To DOGE The ATF

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• by: Colorado Pols

The Hill’s Sarah Fortinsky reports from Washington, where Colorado’s favorite carpetbagging chaos agent Rep. Lauren Boebert is kicking off the new session of Congress with legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, better known by its sinister three-letter acronym ATF:

Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) introduced a bill to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), they announced Tuesday.

The bill, titled Abolish the ATF, aims “to safeguard Americans’ Second Amendment rights” and to “protect law-abiding gun owners from the relentless bureaucratic overreach” of the ATF, according to a press release from Burlison’s office…

“I cannot imagine under any circumstance or administration where the ATF serves as an ally to the Second Amendment and law-abiding firearm owners across America,” Boebert said in a statement.

Although the bill’s title has been introduced, the text isn’t yet available since it takes clerks time during the crush of bills to get them all published. Rep. Boebert has railed fruitlessly against the existence of the ATF for several years now, but with Republicans about to be in total control of Washington, D.C. and co-President Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) poised to recommend what will have to be sweeping reductions in government spending in order to meet their lofty projections, we can’t be comfortable today that abolishing the ATF is just another Boebert flight of fantasy.

Among gun rights supporters, the wholesale abolition of the ATF is a divisive issue, and Boebert is siding with the far-right Gun Owners of America in the internal debate about their future under a presumably friendly Trump administration. If Boebert and the “no compromise” gun rights activists end up denied during what’s supposed to be the greatest gubmint-cutting exercise of this generation, they could find themselves…disaffected.

Or not. Co-President Musk will need to Tweet about it before we know for sure.