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https://wamu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1240263617-scaled.jpg25601707The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives enforces gun laws already on the books. How can enforcement happen when the very agency charged with doing so are handicapped by Congress?