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City of Baltimore and Everytown Sue ATF in Effort to Overturn the Tiahrt Amendment

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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is suing the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for data about where guns used in city crimes originate, the latest move from city leaders to address the...
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Does an FFL Have To Log In a Firearm If It Is There Just...

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The short answer is “no.” The NSSF recently wrote, “when a customer takes a firearm in for cleaning or for a quick repair, if the firearm is cleaned or repaired and returned to the...

ATF Official: Federal Prosecutors Turning a Blind Eye to Straw Purchasers, Again

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Arizona is not prosecuting straw-purchase arrests with speed and vigor, which can allow weapons purchased illegally in the United States to “walk” across the border into Mexico, according to...

ATF eForms Back Up! Conspiracy Theories Crushed by Steady Hand of Bureaucracy

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Well, less than an hour after we took our story live about the ATF eForms website going down and noted all the theories of alarm surrounding the alleged sinister plots to stifle gun companies...

ATF Director Faces the Nation with His Ignorance of Firearms

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It turns out Joe Biden’s second choice to lead the ATF, Steve Dettelbach, wasn’t lying when he told his Senate confirmation committee that he wasn’t a firearms expert. Dettelbach appeared Sunday on CBS’ Face the...
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More ATF Ridiculousness: With Leaders Like Dettelbach, No Wonder Citizen Distrust Is So High

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach joined CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan to talk about violent crime committed with firearms and the tools he wants from Congress. The...
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ATF Inspector, With No Police Authority, Stops Gun Purchase Claiming Buyer Smelled of Marijuana

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In a small, but significant example of more government overreach, an ATF Industry Operations Investigator violated the Second Amendment rights of a central Florida man last month when he ordered a gun dealer to...

ATF Finally Responds to SAF Investigation…Sort Of

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Senior ATF officials must have noticed Joe Biden’s shockingly low poll numbers and realized that their war against law-abiding American gun owners will soon be lost. Now, the ATF is taking steps to clean house...
ATF: Accessories Submitted for GCA or NFA Approval Must Be Submitted With a Firearm

More ATF Atrocity: ATF SWAT raid in Arkansas Raises Questions About Excessive Force

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Bryan Malinowski, the 53-year-old executive director of the Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, died two days after exchanging gunfire with ATF agents who raided his home at 6 a.m. Tuesday morning. His...
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FPC Files Response Brief In Pistol Brace Lawsuit

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The battle over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) rule redefining braced pistols as “short-barreled rifles” placing them under the National Firearms Act continues in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Most recently, the Firearms Policy...

More Mexican Gun Running Hijinx with the Biden Admin and ATF

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There’s a sense of déjà vu all over again when it comes to the federal government shutting down efforts to put a halt to Mexican gun-running schemes. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a series...
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NRA Members Receive “Get Out of Jail Free Card” for Guns with Pistol Braces

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Our friends over at The Reload are reporting the result of a preliminary injunction by a judge in NRA v. ATF, is the ATF is not allowed to pursue NRA members for guns with...