A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agent tells “Full Measure’s” Sharyl Attkisson the Obama Administration obstructed justice in the investigation into the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning program and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder. The agent says the Department of Justice and the ATF tried to cover up any link between the gunrunning scandal and Brian Terry’s death.
The FBI issued an update on the Alexandria attack saying the attacker carried two guns, both of which were purchased from FFLs.
Sampson County North Carolina Sheriff Jimmy Thornton says suppressors improve the hunting experience and make firearms training safer.
Federal agents allegedly seized approximately 60 firearms from the home of a “high-ranking Pasadena police officer.” The cache of weapons was so large that agents required two trucks to transport it.
More than 140 gang members are facing federal charges after a multi-agency operation netted dozens of arrests over the last 75 days, the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California announced Wednesday.
The 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry by a 7-time previously deported illegal alien could have been prevented, says the agent’s brother Kent Terry in an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas. Terry’s family hopes the Trump Administration will now go after “the real criminals” responsible for putting the “Fast and Furious” guns in the accused killer’s hands.
In a brief press release posted on the U.S. Department of Education’s website, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said she has accepted an invitation from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten to visit a public school in Van Wert, Ohio.
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is warning that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare 2.o still contains measures that will allow doctors, insurance companies, and the ATF to use medical records to further a gun control agenda.
While Republicans in the House are pushing legislation to roll back the jumbled federal oversight of firearm suppressors, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) says she is ready to fight efforts to make “deadly gun silencers” easier to acquire.
Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz subpoenaed two agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to appear before his committee in connection with the Obama Administration’s gun-running program, Fast and Furious. Firearms from the former president’s scheme were allegedly involved in the 2011 murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico.
Chicago gangs have targeted gun shipments in Norfolk Southern rail yard on three different occasions in as many years.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives claims an employee with Baltimore’s Safe Streets violence intervention program is tied to “a drug trafficking organization” associated with numerous shootings in the city.
It is Valentine’s Day in gun-controlled Chicago and there have been over 400 people shot in the city year-to-date.
In a “white paper” published by the Washington Post, ATF Associate Deputy Director Ronald Turk shows that a continued ban on the importation of numerous “assault weapons” is nonsensical.
In a recently published ATF “white paper,” Associate Deputy Director Ronald Turk sets forth “points for discussion” that include his opinion that the continued inclusion of suppressors under National Firearms Act (NFA) regulations is “archaic” and “should be reevaluated.”
On Friday, the arts community in Los Angeles attempted to create its own response to the crackdown on unsafe warehouses throughout the Golden State in the wake of the fire in Oakland’s “Ghost Ship” over two weeks ago in which 36 people died.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) said Tuesday that there is “no final determination” in the Oakland fire that took 36 lives at the “Ghost Ship” warehouse on the night of December 2, but noted that overloaded electrical lines and wiring were “part of the analysis” authorities are looking at in order to determine the origin of the deadly flames.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) is clarifying language on background check form 4473 to let would-be gun buyers know that even “legalized” marijuana use bars them from purchasing a firearm.
In a November 4 column on post-election gun control, Newsweek explained that if Hillary Clinton wins, she can use the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to bypass Congress for new restrictions on guns.
Keith Scott reportedly had a “stolen” gun on him when police shot him in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 20.
The report says the “ATF failed to devote sufficient attention to how it was managing its undercover storefront operations” and observes that the agency “needs to consolidate its storefront expertise and ensure that it is fully engaged in each operation.”
A fire broke out in a U.S. Department of Agriculture storage facility in Maryland Tuesday morning, just days after the facility was closed due to anonymous email threats.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently released a report highlighting state-by-state ownership of guns regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934.
A United Way of Sante Fe board member reached out to United Way Worldwide and the ATF to stop another local chapter from raffling off guns to raise money for charities supported by United Way.
Figures from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) show the number of gun manufacturers in the U.S. grew “nearly 250 percent” from 2009 through 2015.
A recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report shows that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) violated restrictions to compile information on U.S. gun owners.
SpecDive Tactical of Alexandria, Virginia, claims a CBS News employee violated federal law in an effort to prove it is easy to acquire an AR-15.
Federal officials investigating the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, have called the fire “a criminal act.” The announcement came during a Wednesday afternoon press conference by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) not far from the explosion scene.
Two boys hunting rabbits found a suspicious item later determined to be an “extremely dangerous” explosive device near the central Texas town of Rosebud, in Falls County.
A father and son were arrested early Tuesday morning in Houston on drug trafficking charges. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) raided the home in northwest Harris County as part of a search warrant execution.
On March 9, Maryland state senator Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery County) said he and his colleagues will not quit pushing gun control until they have an annual “death toll of zero” in the state.
The production of guns has more than doubled since President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, amid his frequent demands for more gun-control and fewer guns. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has released its annual Firearms Manufacturing
Ten suspects allegedly chained a pickup truck to the front doors of a gun store, pulled the doors off their hinges, grabbed approximately 50 weapons, and fled the scene.
On February 9 President Obama released his 2017 budget proposal and it contains “billions for gun control.”
The New York Times (NYT) claimed on February 7 that for all the attention given to President Obama’s unilateral orders to reduce “gun violence,” his executive gun controls are just more talk with little action.
Two National Guard members pleaded guilty in a San Diego federal court on January 14 to illegally selling guns they believed were destined for Mexico—and thus likely the hands of violent drug cartels.
A Johannesburg, California man who allegedly made threats against local and federal law enforcement agencies on social media was arrested Saturday after authorities found a cache of explosives at his home. Todd Sloan, 51, was arrested without incident at a gas
On January 8 the Associated Press fact checked President Obama’s claim about the ATF and background checks, as well as his claims about the ATF’s budget during the last seven years, and the AP found that Obama’s claims were wrong.
On January 6, the NRA declined an invitation to attend President Obama’s CNN town hall, describing the event at a “PR spectacle orchestrated by the White House.”
The black market for homemade AR-15 rifles is surging in California. ARs are legal to build at home, but “it is a felony to sell or trade such a weapon.” The market for the illegal sales and trades of these guns has become front and center in California.
