Renegade... Agreed! Congress does need to get involved. But will they? Look at how long it took them just to approve a boss for the bureau. And while your citation of the definition of person is 100% correct, a process or implementing regulation can absolutely be frozen if a deficiency is discovered until such deficiency is remedied. This is exactly where ATF's Counsel's Office was headed because ATF was facilitating prohibited persons in possession. Again, it was already a crime for a prohibited person to be in possession... ATF was facilitating the process via legal entities.

Folks are up in arms regarding the extent of the problem. I have tried to explain the difficulties inherent in breaking out natural persons from legal entities under the 922(g) umbrella charge. I can assure you that there are a significant number of cases beyond the few that have already been referenced. But in order to provide that "proof" a lot of manual work has to be done.

Under the Chevron Doctrine, agencies and bureaus have extremely wide latitude in interpreting the regulations used to implement legislation. SCOTUS has sided with the government almost universally in matters such as this because of Chevron. It doesn't make the actions any more palatable.

We should not even be having to fight *any* battle over NFA. But until it goes away, if it goes away, we are going to have to figure out ways to minimize the impact of ATF's regulatory efforts. We would be excoriated for doing nothing. Since we are getting excoriated anyway, we will continue to fight.