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2 May 2024, 9:05 pm
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to block the enforcement of a new rule that requires people who sell firearms online and at gun shows to conduct background checks on their potential buyers. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 3:23 pm
The justices agreed to weigh in on a challenge to a rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives regulating so-called “ghost guns” – firearms without serial numbers that virtually anyone can assemble from parts, often purchased in a kit. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 12:46 pm
In November 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacked authority to adopt a final rule aimed at limiting ghost guns. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 5:30 pm
We need to do it now, while things are fresh in our minds so that we can get to work,” she said.The second phase of the report – which will outline FSRI’s independent analysis of the events, including detail on conditions influencing the original fire – is expected come out sometime in late summer or early autumn, Lopez said.The cause of the fires will be determined by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Fire Safety Research… [read post]
14 Apr 2024, 9:32 pm
“The problem that we encounter is that when we lean into our partners with the (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) for some support, they say, ‘can you tell us where this gun came from, where was it sold, who bought it,’ but the gun is virtually invisible because it doesn’t have a serial number. [read post]
12 Apr 2024, 11:10 am
” Cornyn accused the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) of rewriting the legislation it purported to implement and violating the separation of powers. [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 12:47 pm
On February 26, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) issued an announcement addressing Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) concerns regarding the issuance of The Prohibited Discourse of Unclassified, Sensitive Information Without Proper Authorization memo. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 7:39 pm
The New York Times [unpaywalled]: “Four in 10 illegal gun cases tracked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were involved in black market sales, including from shadow dealers who used a legal loophole to evade background checks, according to an analysis of firearms trafficking released on Thursday. [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 12:20 pm
On February 12, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent letters to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (DOJ-OIG) regarding the issuance of a memo that threatened ATF employees with disciplinary action or criminal charges for unauthorized disclosure of unclassified information. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 5:28 am
Cargill, in which the Court will decide whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives properly re-interpreted the definition of “machinegun” under 26 U.S.C. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 10:00 pm
For years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) classified non-mechanical bump stocks as not being machine guns. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 12:41 pm
Until 2018, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives had indicated that only certain kinds of bump stocks transform semiautomatic rifles into machine guns. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 3:53 pm
In 2018, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives issued a rule concluding that bump stocks are machine guns. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 6:36 am
In Houston, a city with a significant presence of federal law enforcement agencies, such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), cases of weapons trafficking are vigorously prosecuted. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 5:14 am
Shortly after the Las Vegas mass shooting, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) launched what is known as a “notice-and-comment rulemaking” to reconsider its earlier position that bump stocks were not “machineguns” within the law’s definition. [read post]
8 Feb 2024, 11:31 am
” In April of 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) issued a Final Order amending the definitions of “firearm” and “frame or receiver” in an attempt to regulate the increasing number of ghost guns — a term used to describe weapons-part kits that can be assembled into a firearm without registration. [read post]
31 Jan 2024, 6:22 am
In 2018, following the shooting at a Las Vegas music festival which left 58 people dead, President Donald Trump ordered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) to ban bump stocks, the accessory which helped make the shooting the deadliest in modern American history. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 6:55 pm
" Turning to "guidance" documents at the federal level, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) has long history of issuing what I'll call "advisories" that had better be followed unless you want to risk license revocation or criminal charges. [read post]
11 Dec 2023, 8:29 am
In the wake of a 2018 mass shooting in Las Vegas involving the use of bump stocks, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) published an interpretive rule concluding that bump stocks are machineguns as defined in Section 5845(b). [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 11:54 am
The suspect in the Burlington, Vermont shooting that left three Palestinian-American men wounded pleaded not guilty after he was arrested early Monday morning by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). [read post]
