Abolish the ATF?: Rep. Burlison wants to eliminate 'disaster agency' he says has been violating 2nd Amendment

Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., wants to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and plans to enactment guardant a measurement that would bash conscionable that.

"The ATF is simply a disaster," Burlison, a subordinate of the blimpish House Freedom Caucus, told Fox News Digital connected Thursday, adding that "for decades they've been a catastrophe agency" which has "been violating the… Second Amendment."

The congressman suggested that states should beryllium allowed to grip matters themselves, without national interference.

"There's precise fewer ATF officials," helium said, accusing the bureau of "co-opting oregon commandeering [local] instrumentality enforcement to enforce laws" which authorities lawmakers did not pass.

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Left: Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., leaves a gathering of the House Republican Conference astatine the Capitol Hill Club successful Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 25, 2023; Right: The letters "ATF" are seen connected a Department of Justice ATF Explosive and Fire Investigation conveyance astatine the Marine Corps Air Station Airshow successful San Diego, California, connected Sept. 28. (Getty Images)

The legislator plans to present a connection antecedently enactment guardant successful 2023 by then-Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. 

Burlison, a freshman who took bureau past year, was 1 of the Republicans who joined Gaetz's measurement arsenic a cosponsor.

GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Mary Miller of Illinois, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Cory Mills of Florida, Mike Collins of Georgia, Barry Moore of Alabama, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Bob Good of Virginia besides joined arsenic cosponsors, according to congress.gov.

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A vest worn by peculiar agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is seen during a grooming league adjacent San Marcos, Texas, connected Aug. 19, 2010. (Michael Paulsen/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to the ATF for remark connected Friday.

"ATF provides tremendous benefits to the American nationalist done each of its efforts warring convulsive transgression each day," ATF spokesperson Kristina Mastropasqua said successful an emailed statement.

Burlison besides thinks the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should beryllium abolished.

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ATF seal (Ted Soqui/Corbis via Getty Images)

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"The EPA is making one-size-fits-all rules for the full United States" and is "being much harmful than… helpful," helium said.