We also should further strengthen the ATF by making it easier to revoke the licenses of reckless dealers, give it the power to suspend licenses and levy civil penalties, and eliminate the bizarre restriction that limits the ATF to only one spot inspection of a gun dealer per year.

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The treaty's challenge inspection provisions are full of holes and, in any event, one cannot use challenge inspections to spot-check a country the size of Iraq, let alone Russia.

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