UNEX BATF under the Department of Energy in a national emergency?!

I received a new publication from the BATF (E).

On the cover it read:

"Note: Due to the Homeland Security reorganization BATF is now a D.O.E. organization and code numbers governing firearm transactions have changed. Part 147 is now 447, part 178 is now 478 and part 179 is now 479. (Federal Register, Vol. 68 No. 16, FFL Newsletter August 2004)

Questions for the board...

1. What does this mean in English?

2. As a D.O.E. entity, does this give them expanded powers in time of a national emergency?

P

The ATF can be part of any agency, and still remain just what it is: a bunch of jack-booted thugs.

What does alcohol, tobacco and firearms have to do with energy?

What does alcohol, tobacco and firearms have to do with energy?

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Without firearms, you have no power.

ethanol.

The reason I posted the question is that an licensed dealer told me that the DOE had expanded powers to enter homes.

Rumor...yes. With the knowledge on this board I was hoping someone would know.

P

I would note that BATF has added the letter 'E' to its name. The 'E' stands for explosives.

The Department of Energy has direct responsibilities over nuclear weapons, and also the national laboratories that do extensive work on conventional explosives in addition to their work on nukes.

The DOE operates the NEST teams dealing with the discovery and control over nuclear weapons that might be in the hands of terrorist groups. The NEST teams have extraordinary extra-Constitutional powers. Those powers might extend to entering and searching homes etc. without a warrant. However, I do not know that this is actually the case, but I do suspect that it is.

As for BATFE having the same powers, I would doubt that to be the case.

IMO,

Woolly

It's a agency that's allowed to make their own laws. Under what authority? Who knows. Surely not the authority of We The People!

During the cold war, the BATF regulate the distributuin of stils for small farmers to make tgeir own alcohol in the event of a national emergency, like a nuclear exchange with the USSR. If you want to distill alcohol, you need to obtain a permit via the BATF.