The Taco Island Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

[Louisistan]

Commissioner for Alcohol: Louisistan
Commissioner for Tobacco: Kanta Hame
Commissioner for Firearms: Hahiha / USSR

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is a federal law enforcement organization within the Taco Islamd Department of Justice.[4] Its responsibilities include the investigation and prevention of federal offenses involving the unlawful use, manufacture, and possession of firearms and explosives; acts of arson and bombings; and illegal trafficking of alcohol and tobacco products. The ATF also regulates via licensing the sale, possession, and transportation of firearms, ammunition, and explosives in interstate commerce. Many of ATF's activities are carried out in conjunction with task forces made up of state and local law enforcement officers, such as Project Safe Neighborhoods. ATF operates a unique fire research laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, Taco Island, where full-scale mock-ups of criminal arson can be reconstructed.

[Kanta Hame]

I demand all rights for Alcohol and Firearms so i can shoot you all dead drunk. In safe way as possible of course.

[Louisistan]

Granted.

[Kanta Hame]

*Starts drinking like maniac*

Oh right... I forgot. Have to do this safely.

*Puts on safety goggles*

All done

*Starts firing all around like maniac*

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

And Gunny?

[Kanta Hame]

*Shoots Tuga to feet*

That is what happens when you enter here and do not fallow safety regulations. This would have been perfectly avoided if you would have remembered to wear earmuffs

[Jabberwocky]

The Islands are becoming very bureaucratic

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

Mar 11, 2018 16:52:45 GMT -5 Kanta Hame said:

*Shoots Tuga to feet*

That is what happens when you enter here and do not fallow safety regulations. This would have been perfectly avoided if you would have remembered to wear earmuffs

Yes, Sir! My bad! I will fill the needed paperwork to carry a gun! I must ask, though, Free Guns For All is, by definition of his own name, giving out guns to everyone... What will be done about that?

[Jabberwocky]

How do I follow fallow regulations?

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

Fallow?

[Hahiha / USSR]

As commissioner for firearms, I would like to propose a new statute stating that all citizens are required to carry at least 2 firearms with a calibre of 5mm.

[Jabberwocky]

Shiny sidearms

[Kanta Hame]

I think we also need to ban sober gun usage.

[Jabberwocky]

Certainly inebriated guns are dangerous

[Hahiha / USSR]

Hame is correct, despite what big-media tells us sobreity hinders performance with firearms. We would have much safer streets if our cops, military, and every citizen were drunk whilst carrying their mandated 2 firearms.

[Jabberwocky]

Who runs the gun store?

[Hakketomat]

Federal offenses? Do we have a federal system of government on Taco Island?

[Louisistan]

Mar 19, 2018 7:13:00 GMT -5 Hakketomat said:

Federal offenses? Do we have a federal system of government on Taco Island?

Sure. There's a lot of precedence to prove it.

When I was King, several noblemen were in charge of regions of the island. The NTO had a Senate, which also indicates a federal system of sorts.

[Hakketomat]

How is the situation now? We sort of have new leadership

[Louisistan]

Federal systems usually don't disappear. Just look at Germany.
The German Empire of 1848 had a federal system, as was the German Empire 1871-1918. The Weimar Republic was federal as is the Federal Republic of Germany. Both the Third Reich and the GDR also started off with federal systems, although they abolished them later. But after those were gone, the federal system emerged again. Things like this are engraved into the cultural identity of a nation, I think.

[Hakketomat]

Yeah but we've been through coups and revolutions

[Louisistan]

And Germany hasn't?

The Empire of 1848 was the result of a revolution, the Empire of 1871 was the result of war. The Weimar Republic was the result of revolution, the Third Reich came to be in a coupesque manner and both the GDR and the FRG were, to some extent, the result of war.

[Hakketomat]

But does a senate have to indicate a federal system?
Would you describe the Netherlands as a federal state?

[Louisistan]

Mar 19, 2018 8:47:36 GMT -5 Hakketomat said:

But does a senate have to indicate a federal system?
Would you describe the Netherlands as a federal state?

I don't know how much autonomy the provinces of the Netherlands enjoy, so I'm not qualified to make that assessment.
It might also depend on whether we're talking about the Netherlands or the Kingdom of the Netherlands, because the latter most definitely has federal qualities.

[Hakketomat]

I'm talking about the Netherlands.
So you're now saying that a state may have a senate but still not have a federal system. You indicated that there needs to be some degree of autonomy.
How would you describe the time when you were King? The NTO's senate?

[Louisistan]

The noblemen were free to lead their lands as they seemed fit.
The NTO Senate is classified.

[Hakketomat]

But the situation today is completely different so wouldn't you say that there is a good chance that Taco Island isn't a federal state anymore?

[Louisistan]

I am the Vice President. I tell you it's a federal system.

[Hakketomat]

Do you want it to be a federal system?

[Deleted]

Can I be in charge of some of the things? Maybe as deputy?