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CNN: Biden’s Nomination of David Chipman to Head ATF is in Real Trouble

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When CNN acknowledges that a Biden nominee is having serious problems lining up Democrats to vote for him, you know the administration has real problems. That's the between-the-lines takeaway from today's report from the...

Idea: Maybe Biden’s Next ATF Appointee Shouldn’t Be a Paid Gun Control Lobbyist

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Senate Democratic centrists are calling on President Joe Biden to nominate another director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a week after lukewarm support from those same lawmakers prompted Biden to pull...

ATF Goes After Homemade Silencers Through Mass Form 1 Disapprovals

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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...

Anatomy of an FBI ‘Terrorism’ Sting: Convicting a Former 911 Operator of a National...

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By Lee Williams By all accounts, Yunis Isaac Mejia was a good guy – certainly not the type of man who should be spending his next two birthdays behind the wire in a federal prison.  Mejia,...
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SB Tactical: We’re Not Going to Sit Back and Watch ATF Target Law-Abiding Gun...

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From SB Tactical . . . Today, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has issued a Final Rule “Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached Stabilizing Braces.”  Under this rule, owners of some firearms...

House Appropriations Committee Raises a Range of Gun Regulation Issues With ATF Director Dettelbach

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach answered questions from members of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee. While mostly focused on budget and appropriations matters, committee members asked the...
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ATF Director Nominee: AR-15 Weapons of War Should be Regulated Like Machine Guns

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David Chipman, a retired Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent, on Monday said AR-15 rifles should be regulated like machine guns.  "What I support is treating them just like machine guns," Chipman,...
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7 Questions David Chipman Still Needs to Answer

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By Andy Massimilian ATF director nominee David Chipman got off easy at his confirmation hearings. Gun-hating democrats (i.e. 99% of the party’s officialdom) made the hearing ludicrously short leaving room for only a cursory examination...
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The Truth About David Chipman the Gun Control Industry Can’t Stand to Hear

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By Larry Keane There are lies, damned lies and gun control lies. The problem with the gun control lies is that those who continue to spout them have no shame even when they’ve been proven...

Biden Administration Has Compiled Records on 54 Million Gun Owners in the Last Year

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The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans...
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NSSF: We’ll be Taking a Very Close Look at Steven Dettelbach

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From the NSSF . . . NSSF, the firearm industry trade association, listened with keen interest to President Joe Biden’s nomination of Steve Dettelbach for Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
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Gun Banners HORRIFIED to See Americans Already Working Around the ATF’s New ‘Ghost Gun’...

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It’s been less than a month since new federal rules took effect attempting to rein in the proliferation of so-called “ghost guns,” a catchall term for unserialized, home-built firearms that Democratic leaders, law enforcement...