Surrender
So, Phil Gingrey wanted to amend a budget bill to require the ATF to videotape all firearms testing. The reason for this was that several actual firearms experts have testified that the ATF was making stuff up when they said a weapon that fired out of battery was a machine gun. What it really was was broken and unsafe, yet they farted with it anyway, which is not smart when a weapon can fire out of battery. Good way to get killed. The bill is a good idea for a few reasons: 1) agents (such as in the case I just mentioned) have been known to make stuff up; 2) wouldn’t a video be better evidence in a court of law than the word of someone; 3) it will serve as a monitor to ATF’s tendency to make up the rules as they go along. In short, it was a good idea.
Well, Gingrey gave up. No bill.
Lame.
Via David.
