🚽 19 August 2023: DAILY MAIL > All Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms Explosives Matters! Some law enforcement veterans told the paper that the previous system of issuing warnings rather than revoking licenses was preferable.

By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 01:07 EDT, 19 August 2023
UPDATED: 01:29 EDT, 19 August 2023
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‘The gun dealers were our first line of defense against gun trafficking,’ said Peter Forcelli, a retired deputy assistant director.

‘Why are we now beating an ally into submission?’

But Steve Dettelbach, appointed director of the ATF in July 2022, defended his bureau’s policy.

‘We’ve taken steps to hold accountable those few dealers who are engaging in these willful violations,’ he said.

‘They’re not going to have the privilege of being a gun dealer anymore.’

Dettelbach, who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio before taking the ATF role, said dealers needed to be held to strict standards because guns could end up getting sold to criminals.

Rick Vasquez, a retired ATF official, told the paper he approved of Dettelbach’s approach.

‘The ATF, previous to this administration, had a ‘Let’s see if we can help you’ attitude and some gun dealers took advantage of that,’ he said.

Yet those who have lost their licenses told the paper they are being unfairly targeted.

Anthony Navarro lost his license last year after receiving three earlier warnings since 2009.

He still sells firearm accessories at his store in Greeley, Colorado.

‘We were making $1 million a year, now it’s less than $100,000,’ he said.
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