The main mission of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms is to eliminate the latter, component by component if necessary. From Annie Oakley at notthebee.com:

The ATF is an unelected body of hired bureaucrats that have no power invested in them to make law, and certainly not law under the “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” section of the U.S. Constitution.
But that doesn’t matter because this is 2023 and we need to progress past silly notions like liberty and tyranny because the federal government wants to be the only one that owns guns.

(Please don’t research how the ATF classifies things because it’s a paperwork wormhole that you’ll never escape)
