FBI Director Patel To Take Over ATF, Too. The extraordinary move has some wondering if Trump might move to dissolve the ATF altogether. Rightly resented by liberty-minded Americans, the ATF has played central roles in some of the most ghastly crimes committed by the federal government in recent decades, from the ATF entrapment of Randy Weaver that led to the killing of his 14-year-old son and his wife as she held their 10-month-old daughter, to the standoff in Waco that ended in the mass slaughter of 76 Branch Davidians, including 25 children. ​ Like the vast majority of the federal government, there's no constitutional authority for the ATF to exist in the first place. As the old joke goes, "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store, not a government agency."​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-director-patel-take-over-atf-too-will-he-burn-it-ground