Federal Register Publishes DOJ’s New Stealth Universal Background Check Rule for Public Comment

The Biden Department of Justice, under cover provided by John Cornyn’s disastrous Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, has moved to vastly expand the definition of people who are considered by ATF to be “engaged in the business” of selling guns. It’s a not-so-stealthy move toward backdoor “universal” background checks and closing the alleged “gun show loophole.” … Read more

Zero Out the ATF Budget Until They Recognize Americans’ 2nd Amendment Gun Rights

From the CCRKBA . . . The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is today calling on Congress to block funding for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget until Democrats and federal bureaucrats publicly recognize Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, and … Read more

Dettelbach’s Confirmation Will Hasten the Neutering of the ATF

With last week’s confirmation of Steve Dettelbach to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, gun control advocates and other nanny-staters are celebrating the agency’s first confirmed director since 2015. But what most of them aren’t taking into account is that NYSRPA v. Bruen makes putting an aggressive new leader at the top … Read more

ATF Based Its Crackdown on ‘Ghost Guns’ on Data It Knew Was Faulty

By Lee Williams Joe Biden repeated some of his most discredited lies about the Second Amendment Monday during a press conference held in the Rose Garden – deer in Kevlar vests, fictitious prohibitions on the right to keep and bear arms, including cannons – but it’s the actions he’s taking that are the most worrisome, … Read more

Vice News’ Keegan Hamilton Learns Some Truths About Guns

This Vice video report by Keegan Hamilton on so-called ghost guns and the 3D printing revolution that’s making building your own firearm increasingly accessible to more people is well worth the 30 minutes it will take you to watch it. As part of his report, Hamilton attended the Gun Maker’s Match held in June in … Read more

Where Will You Wear Your ATF Branded Gear?

The ATF Store is now open! The official site for ATF merchandise & apparel. ????https://t.co/MAuqrk8f1h A portion of all sales support the blind & visually impaired. pic.twitter.com/NhYnKyVDZr — ATF New York (@ATFNewYork) April 13, 2021 We ran across this announcement from the ATF’s New York office touting the opening of the federal gun regulator’s fabulous … Read more

TNR: The ‘Beleaguered’ ATF Is the Anti-Gun Weapon America Needs

The ATF raided a major ghost-gun company this month after determining that it hadn’t been complying with federal law. Rumors have circulated on gun-industry sites that the Biden administration intends to tackle both pistol braces and ghost guns. The administration has not confirmed those rumors, though ghost guns do figure prominently in Biden’s gun violence plan. While almost everything associated … Read more

Did the Ghost of Gun Control Past, Present and Future Visit the ATF Last Night?

Your guess is as good as ours. But who knows? Maybe the ghosts of gun control past, present and future made a real impression on our hyper-regulatory friends at the ATF last night. As old Ebenezer found out for himself, the spirits can do what they want. There’s always hope for a little Christmas redemption, … Read more