The United States Government Accountability Office released a report
Wednesday on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, GAO announced on its wesite. Titled “Enhancing Data Collection Could Improve Management of Investigations,” the report, originally published June 30, but just made public today, “addresses (1) how ATF's
priorities for its criminal law enforcement investigations have changed
since fiscal year 2003 [when the agency was transferred from the
Department of the Treasury to the Department of Justice], (2) ATF's
staffing challenges, and (3) the extent to which ATF has data to monitor
the timeliness and outcomes of delayed denial investigations.
“GAO recommends that ATF establish a mechanism to provide
headquarters managers readily available data to better monitor the
timeliness and outcomes of delayed denial investigations,” a summary
concludes. “ATF concurred with the recommendation and ATF officials
outlined steps they plan to take to address it.”
Unaddressed in the report, addressed to Charles E. Grassley, Ranking
Member Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, and F. James
Sensenbrenner, Jr., Chairman Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland
Security, and Investigations Committee on the Judiciary, House of
Representatives, are concerns expressed by gun owners about ATF powers,
by Federal Firearms Licensees about inspection inconsistencies and
application of rules and revocations, by firearm developers about
arbitrary and often contradictory rulings, and by whistleblowers and
disaffected agents about agency waste, abuse and corruption.
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