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<blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2945523" data-attributes="member: 18914"><p>Two separate issues here - one is streamlining government administration, which is nominally non-partisan, and the other is a highly partisan issue of overall gun regulation. No matter what one thinks of overall gun regulation it should be seen as a good idea to reduce the number of branch heads and administrative staff by consolidating agencies if that can be done reasonably. Simply eliminating one agency and transferring responsibilities to another w/o giving resources adequate to the task is asking for unintended (and probably undesirable) secondary effects.</p><p></p><p>To those of you who are saying repeal the NFA - nice goal but completely unsupportable even in the current Congress UNLESS you want to trade something even bigger to Democrats to gain Senate passage, and I would not, because the cost would be high. Given that, don't let the good (consolidation/government reform) become hostage to the perfect (NFA repeal) that's the kind of politics that only works around the bar but not in the halls of Congress.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mugsy, post: 2945523, member: 18914"] Two separate issues here - one is streamlining government administration, which is nominally non-partisan, and the other is a highly partisan issue of overall gun regulation. No matter what one thinks of overall gun regulation it should be seen as a good idea to reduce the number of branch heads and administrative staff by consolidating agencies if that can be done reasonably. Simply eliminating one agency and transferring responsibilities to another w/o giving resources adequate to the task is asking for unintended (and probably undesirable) secondary effects. To those of you who are saying repeal the NFA - nice goal but completely unsupportable even in the current Congress UNLESS you want to trade something even bigger to Democrats to gain Senate passage, and I would not, because the cost would be high. Given that, don't let the good (consolidation/government reform) become hostage to the perfect (NFA repeal) that's the kind of politics that only works around the bar but not in the halls of Congress. [/QUOTE]
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