he Justice Department is weighing a historic merger between two of its most controversial agencies: the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the Biden era “Ghost Gun” rule by a 7-2 margin.
After Democrats sent a letter to President Trump calling for the removal of Kash Patel as acting director of the ATF, a major national gun rights group is suggesting they “pound sand.”
On the heels of 14 anti-gun House Democrats demanding President Trump remove Kash Patel as head of the ATF, Patel is now reassigning up to 1,000 of its agents to the FBI.
Adamiak was found guilty and sentenced to 20-years in prison, despite the fact that everything he possessed is still completely legal and that he had never committed any crime.
For decades, law-abiding Americans who have had their gun rights unfairly restricted have been left in legal limbo—creating an unconstitutional de facto lifetime gun ban.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) unveiled its new Chief Legal Counsel. Robert Leider will take over duties as the top lawyer of the ATF.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over a gag order placed on its lawyers.
One issue of contention is the ATF requiring owners to go through a background check to get back their triggers.
The NFA division processed 157,673 applications, which set a new monthly record for the NFA Division.
The ATF is usually brought into these investigations only after the arrest, once the real police have lodged their suspect in a county jail.
If you want to fight for your rights against the unlimited power and treasure of the state, you’re on your own. That’s “the reasonableness of the government’s position.”
On the ATF History page, the Agency leaves out many contentious details of what happened at the Branch Davidian property near Waco, Texas.
Szabo’s case should have been investigated solely by the ATF. The suspect should be facing federal – not state – charges.
What happens to the ATF’s headquarters if the agency is finally disbanded? We posed this very question to AmmoLand readers, and the results did not disappoint.
President Trump & Musk are dismantling federal bureaucracy, slashing leases, & offloading unwanted government buildings. But what to do with the rogue-agency ATF’s Building?
This would constitute genuine “gun reform,” a term which has been corrupted by the gun prohibition lobby as camo-speak for gun control.
With Kash Patel now in the position of Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the agency is in for a shake-up.
The ATF has a chance of replacing her with a Constitutionalist that will prioritize prosecuting dangerous transnational terrorist organizations over making millions of Americans criminals.
Opposition to Patel’s ATF leadership is already mounting. Gun control groups, including Brady United, and Giffords, have condemned his appointment, shrieking that he will weaken gun safety…..
A group of 30 Senators has sent a letter to the acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) head, Marvin Richardson, demanding that the Bureau stop exceeding its power.
Training for ATF’s Special Response Teams takes only two weeks, and ATF agents call themselves “operators” after they’ve completed the course.
Gun control organizations are in full meltdown mode. The Brady Campaign quickly issued a statement condemning the firing, calling it “chilling” and accusing the Trump administration of bowing to the gun lobby.
If the ATF’s abuses of the past several decades have taught us anything, it is that now is not the time for a business-as-usual, “law and order” candidate to head the federal government’s anti-gun bureaucracy.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is starting to return forced reset triggers (FRT) to their owners.
ATF Firearms Enforcement Officer Jeffrey Bodell listed each of the five open-bolt semi-autos as a “suspected machinegun.”
The fight over government surveillance of gun owners is far from over, and the latest revelations about the ATF’s involvement only add fuel to the fire. How far will federal agencies go to track law-abiding Americans?
The STEN toy became the most tested and most written about gun of all the legal firearms parts seized by the ATF during their raids.
The government’s assertions of authority are truly breathtaking, claiming they can use the terms of an invalid rule to interpret the underlying statute and enforce it against U.S. citizens in felony prosecutions.
Many cases could be reviewed, but a few stand out as violating not only someone’s right to bear arms but also free speech and entrapment.