The ATF has no power to enforce GUN LAWS because the NRA has stripped the ATF of all power. They CANNOT ASK Gun Shops for records or information.

The ATF, Alchohol, Tabacco and Firearms office 10 years ago was stripped of the legal power to ask a Gun Shop for records and were strippped of the power to make a data base of guns used in crimes BY THE NRA!!  The NRA got a congressman to put a poison pill in a bill which took away the power to regulate guns.  We have not had a director of the ATF for 6 years because the NRA does not want one chosen - sweet deal for the NRA to stop the AFT from doing its job.

Jon Stewart Can Explain much better than I.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/jon-stewart-slams-pro-nra-republicans-maki