A so-called Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “leading expert” struggled to disassemble a Glock on CBS’ Face The Nation.

Chris Bort, the acting chief of the ATF’s Firearms Ammunition Technology Division, hilariously struggled to disassemble the handgun.

“Chris Bort—the acting chief of the ATF’s Firearms Ammunition Technology Division—struggled at disassembling a Glock style handgun during a made-for-tv scaremongering interview with Steven Dettelbach, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms on CBS News,” Steve Guest wrote.

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These are the people who want to regulate firearms and destroy the Second Amendment.

X users commented on the hilarious ATF fail:

X user Austin Ramos easily disassembled the same style handgun in seconds.

“I am more qualified than your ‘leading expert’. Therefore what ever rules you say can be disregarded,” Ramos wrote.

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The Daily Caller reports:

In addition to Bort’s incompetence, Dettelbach himself appeared to display a stunning lack of knowledge on the subject matter for which he is the nation’s chief regulator.

At one point in the video he refers to a drum magazine as a “75 round clip.” A magazine, which feeds rounds into a firearm’s chamber, is different from a clip, which holds cartridges together. This is something I would hope any run-of-the mill firearms enthusiast would know, but apparently the freaking head of the ATF doesn’t.

The levels of stunning incompetence on display in this 20-minute fear porn extravaganza can’t be overstated. First, there’s the Bureau’s inability to find anyone more qualified or competent than these dinguses to do the interview. Then there’s the decision not to cut the obviously-going-to-go-viral clip of your weapons expert showing how bad he is with weapons.

Though the two feds definitely take the cake in this week’s idiot awards, an honorable mention goes to CBS. Instead of finding one of the many available weapons experts with media savvy to interview these two and ask actual questions, they use host Margaret Brennan, who doesn’t ask one difficult question or challenge any of the many dubious claims made by the “experts.”

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