Sipsey Street Irregulars: CPT Jonathan Tuttle on the principal bureaucratic spider at the center of the ATF web.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

CPT Jonathan Tuttle on the principal bureaucratic spider at the center of the ATF web.

Office of the Chief Counsel
Stephen R. Rubenstein
202-648-7000 Chief Counsel
E-mail: stephen.rubenstein@usdoj.gov

Long-time readers know that it is the Chief Counsel's Office and their anti-firearm agenda that really runs the ATF. After the recent inexplicable fol-de-rol regarding the redefinition of "transfer", the redoubtable and perceptive CPT Tuttle makes the following observation:

For what it may be worth, I've copied below some ATF contact information. While it is difficult to be certain, the chief demon and legal string-puller in the ATF Chief Counsel menagerie may be Stephen Rubenstein, about whom we read nothing and know little. Knowing bureaucracies as I think I do, it seems highly doubtful that underlings would be left to run amok without authorization, and that the Upper Stories who concoct stuff would want to be at least one (deniable) level away, though (REDACTED) might have some observations in these regards. The visible people -- mainly Teresa Ficaretta and James P. Vann -- may well be doing bidding of higher-up masters, though I'd not rule out the personal vendetta aspects, as that permeates ATF. James P. rates no separate listing, so he's even lower down the ATF food chain.

2 comments:

Rudi Stout said...: I had a ffl and was at a meeting in WV at FBI headquqarters where they do the NICS checks and meet Mr. Rubenstein there and learned a lot from him. The law is what he says it is not what it reads or its intent. This is back when Pres Cinton was there and Janet Reno so he has been arounde a long time.
Rudi Stout; June 3, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Newbius said...: Mike: Moderate this please.

Is this Teresa Ficaretta related at all to this guy?:
James P. Ficaretta, Enforcement
Programs and Services; Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives; U.S. Department of Justice;
99 New York Avenue, NE., Washington,
DC 20226; telephone: 202–648–7094

The guy who now has full authority over FFLs, per D.C's post today?
http://www.atf.gov/press/releases/2010/06/060310-atf-official-statement-on-final-ruling.html

Just wondering...; June 4, 2010 at 4:37 PM

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