Fabulism: ATF is Unable to Verify Its Own ‘Ghost Gun’ Claims That Got the...
By Lee Williams
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has a unique reputation among federal law enforcement agencies. Quite frankly, the ATF is well known for not always telling the truth. Whether its...
After the Chipman Debacle, Biden Has Reportedly Found Another Candidate to Head the ATF
After withdrawing the president’s first ATF nominee, David Chipman, in September, the White House is expected to pick someone who could have a smoother path to Senate confirmation. If Biden’s next nominee is able to...
War On Guns: Biden’s Proposed Budget Boosts the ATF With $1.7 Billion in Additional...
By Lee Williams
There are few documents in Washington more worthless than a presidential budget. Joe Biden’s budget, which was formally presented Monday, is no exception.
A presidential budget is really nothing but a wish list...a...
Feds Fight the Flow of Chinese Auto Sears Into the U.S.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the federal agency responsible for policing guns in the U.S., said it seized 1,500 weapons modified with auto sears in 2021, a staggering increase over 2020,...
ATF Issues Letter to FFLs Classifying ‘Some’ Forced Reset Triggers as Machineguns
Alphonso Hughes, the ATF's Assistant Director for Enforcement Programs and Services, and George Lauder, ATF's Assistant Director of Field Operations have issued an open letter to all federal firearms licensees regarding forced reset triggers,...
Biden Uses War, Economic Chaos as Cover to Yank Licenses of ‘Rogue Gun Dealers’
By Lee Williams
While the world’s attention is focused on the horrific events unfolding in Eastern Europe, the Biden-Harris administration quietly unleashed hell on American gun dealers.
As the NRA first noted, the Bureau of Alcohol,...
The ATF Gets Legislative Pushback on the Agency’s History of Enforcing Secret Regulations
In a letter sent last week to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and ATF Acting Director Marvin Richardson, 20 Senators called out the ATF for its practice of passing internal guidance and then enforcing...
ATF Goes After Homemade Silencers Through Mass Form 1 Disapprovals
Before manufacturing one's own silencer or other NFA item, one must file an ATF Form 1 for registration and approval and receive said approval. Through a leap of logic, ATF has begun disapproving Form...
The Truth About AR-15 Pistols and Stabilizing Braces
By Emily Taylor
Since 2013, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) estimates that over 3 million stabilizing braces, or pistol braces, have been sold in the U.S. With over a dozen designs available on...
ATF: Celebrate Valentine’s Day by Turning in Your Ex!
Valentine's Day can still be fun even if you broke up. Do you have information about a former (or current) partner involved in illegal gun activity? Let us know, and we will make sure...
It’s Time for ATF to Decide: Cover for President Biden’s Lies or Comply With...
By Lee Williams
In late June, Joe Biden announced a new zero-tolerance policy for “rogue gun dealers,” who he claimed were responsible for skyrocketing violent crime rates in major cities historically controlled by Democrats.
The violence...
ATF’s Hundreds of Millions of Digitized Gun Sales Records Isn’t As Bad As It...
A lot of folks have expressed concern, to put it mildly, about the revelation of what we all knew all along: that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives and Really Big Fires has...