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1 year agoI get what you’re saying and the question is not out of line.
It makes a bit more sense if you think of the ATF as the FDA but for guns. They’re supposed to be the subject matter expert. So it’s not completely out of line for the court to ask them to explain matters relating to guns.
I will never understand the proclivity to just make numbers and shit up when the sum of all human knowledge is at your finger tips.