Homeland Security Archives - The Truth About Guns

Feds Crack Down On Machine Gun Conversion Devices In Wisconsin

March 10, 2025December 10, 2024 by Darwin Nercesian

One must wonder if the incoming Trump Administration’s well-laid plans to streamline the government and trim the bureaucratic fat might affect the propensity of federal agencies to waste taxpayer dollars chasing fabricated monsters. With less than two months remaining until inauguration day, we can only speculate, but for the time being the feds are back … Read more

Harris Imports Crime; Wants to Leave Americans Helpless

March 10, 2025October 3, 2024 by Larry Keane

By Larry Keane The shocking report from The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows that while the Biden-Harris administration has been attacking the lawful commerce of firearms – including hobbling U.S. firearm and ammunition exports to overseas markets – it has been wholesale importing criminals into the United States. The report, released to … Read more

Homeland Security: Illegal, Deadly Firearms are Just a Click Away

March 6, 2025November 25, 2020 by Kat Ainsworth Stevens

With a Biden administration just a couple of months away, the media appear to be helping push one of candidate Biden’s gun control agenda items — a ban on the sale of guns and gun parts via the internet. And they’re focusing on cheap Chinese illegal full-auto switches along with “fuel filters” and solvent traps … Read more

IMI Systems Quote of the Day: No Accountability for Hundreds of Lost Guns at DHS – Enter to Win 1000 Rounds of IMI 9mm Ammo

November 3, 2017 by Dan Zimmerman

“These are the people securing our borders and playing an integral part in our national security directives. And yet they’re leaving guns in unattended backpacks and leaving badges behind in restaurants and amusement parks. And the DHS doesn’t consider this to be enough of a problem to handle with meaningful punishments or consistent policies and … Read more

ATF Death Watch 41: A Rolling Stone(wall) Gathers No Melson.

July 19, 2011 by ttag

Those that do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
– George Santayana (1863–1952)

We can learn a lot from history. If only we pay attention, that is. But the Obama Administration seems Hell-bent for leather to ignore all the lessons they coulda/shoulda/woulda learned, had they just been paying attention to the end of the Nixon Administration. Case in point, you can’t expect to hang someone out to dry without them turning stool-pigeon and singing for the grand inquisitors. Word is now trickling out about the testimony of ATF’s Acting Director, Kenneth Melson. Testimony that would indicate that AG Eric Holder has, in the words of Ricky Ricardo, got some ‘splainin’ to do…

Napolitano Fiddles While ICE Agent Burned.

February 16, 2011 by ttag

From Fox News, this item:

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded while driving through northern Mexico Tuesday, in a rare attack on American officials in this country which is fighting powerful drug cartels.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said one agent was critically wounded in the attack and died from his injuries. The second agent was shot in the arm and leg and remains in stable condition.

Those are the facts. The official reaction to them is…interesting.

Just In Time Policing: Border Protection Nabs Gun Smuggler At Texas Border

February 4, 2011 by ttag

“Border officials say they caught a Fort Worth woman trying to smuggle more than a dozen assault rifles into Mexico in the trunk of a BMW,” kdfw.com reports.
“The 22-year-old woman, who is a U.S. citizen, was turned over to immigration and Homeland Security officials. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials did not release her name. On Tuesday, CBP officials took a second look at the woman’s 2001 BMW 740 as she drove across the border at Del Rio . . .

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