ATF Finally Responds to SAF Investigation…Sort Of

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 as much as possible and get rid of any proof that they violated the civil rights of millions of Americans, … Read more

SAF’s FOIA Request Seeks to Expose Coordination Between the White House and Anti-Gun Groups

It’s increasingly clear that Joe Biden has a ring in his nose and is led around by those who really pull the strings in his administration. To further expose this, the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on the Biden administration seeking to bring to light hidden … Read more

FOIA Requests: A Weapon We Can All Use To Fight the Anti-Gun Industry

As we are all aware, AstroTurf groups such as Shannon Watts’s Moms Demand Action (which is a copy cat of another movement from the early 2000’s that faded) are very good at what they do: getting attention. They are at city council meetings, county board meetings, and, as we have seen recently in districts in … Read more

Judicial Watch Sues the ATF for Records Regarding the 2015 Proposed ‘Armor Piercing’ Ammunition Ban

Government entities have a variety of ways to avoid complying with laws they find inconvenient. One is to slow-walk requests for records or other documentation when the results might cast them in a bad light. Or when they may reveal that they were acting in a blatantly illegal and/or unconstitutional manner. Back in 2015, the … Read more

ATF Denies Being an ‘Agency’ to Avoid FOIA Compliance Requirements

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A legal response filed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claims a Freedom of Information Act-related complaint improperly targets them. “The ATF is not an ‘agency’ within the meaning of the F.O.I.A., 5 U.S.C. § 552 (f) (1), and is, therefore, not a proper party defendant,” the response claims . . .

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