Colorado Congresswoman/good-judgment poster girl Lauren Boebert (R-CO4) introduced a bill to abolish the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives last week.
Boebert, long an agency critic, says the ATF stands in the way of Americans buying more guns, and that ‘gun free zones’ are the most dangerous places in the country. “We don’t trust the ATF because of their overreaching actions,” she said in introducing the bill, which has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee.
In other 119th Congress news, Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) introduced H.R. 38, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow concealed carry license holders and residents of Constitutional Carry states to carry concealed weapons anywhere they travel in the U.S.
Hudson has introduced this bill in previous years; in 2017, the bill passed the House but was not taken up in the Senate. Donald Trump has said he would sign national concealed carry reciprocity legislation into law.
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