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Abolish the ATF Act

To abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Introduced Jan 7, 2025

Latest action (Jan 7, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Gun Policy
Legislative subjects (2)
Department of JusticeExecutive agency funding and structure

Summary

This bill would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The legislation eliminates this federal law enforcement agency by statute. The provided text does not specify how the agency's existing functions or personnel would be handled following abolishment.

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Sponsor (1)
34 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 7, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Jan 7, 2025 Introduced in House

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  • HR 129 — Abolish the ATF Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 92%
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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 7, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 7, 2025

Mr. Burlison (for himself, Ms. Boebert, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, Mr. Collins, Mr. Onder, Mr. Ogles, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Self, and Mr. Gosar) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Abolish the ATF Act”.

SEC. 2. ABOLISHMENT OF THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is hereby abolished. <all>

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