House Dems call for action on law enforcement selling restricted weapons [View all]
Source: CBS News
December 10, 2024 / 11:00 PM EST
A group of House Democrats Tuesday called for action from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, days after CBS News published an investigation which found dozens of law enforcement officials illegally sold firearms, even weapons of war, across 23 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California, who serves on both the House Oversight Committee and on the Homeland Security Committee, wrote to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach stating his "grave concerns" over the report that certain law enforcement officers were "exploiting their positions to acquire and illegally distribute firearms."
Garcia, joined in his letter by Rep. Dan Goldman of New York and Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida, asked the ATF to address a series of questions by Jan. 15, 2025, on serious systemic vulnerabilities exposed by the CBS News investigation.
"Reporting suggests that there may be serious systemic vulnerabilities in current machine gun and sawed-off shotgun and rifle regulations and enforcement mechanisms, jeopardizing public safety by enabling the proliferation of dangerous weapons, often into the hands of international traffickers and organized crime groups," they wrote.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/law-enforcement-selling-restricted-weapons-congressmen-letter/
Copy of letter at OP link in an embedded PDF viewer.
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