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8 Mar 2024, 12:20 pm by Lexi Coghe
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]
28 Feb 2024, 10:00 pm by Stephen Halbrook
For years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) classified non-mechanical bump stocks as not being machine guns. [read post]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on the legality of a Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule that banned rapid-fire “bump stock. [read post]
28 Feb 2024, 12:41 pm by Amy Howe
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 by Amy Howe
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 by John Floyd
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 by Marcia Coyle
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]
” 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 by Guest Author
    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 by Stephen Halbrook
" 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 by DONALD SCARINCI
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]
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]
14 Nov 2023, 7:13 pm
These offenses are investigated by federal law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). [read post]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Thursday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacked authority to adopt a final rule aimed at limiting “ghost guns,” weapons parts kits that can be put together to create a firearm without having to register it. [read post]
3 Nov 2023, 12:27 pm by Amy Howe
The rule directed anyone who owned or possessed a bump stock to destroy them or drop them at a nearby ATF office to avoid facing criminal penalties. [read post]
31 Oct 2023, 5:17 am by Will Baude
[with implications for the pending Supreme Court case of United States v. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 9:05 pm by Gianna Hill
Supreme Court blocked an order by a federal judge that would have paused a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) regulation of firearms sold in kits. [read post]
16 Oct 2023, 3:00 pm by Amy Howe
District Judge Reed O’Connor barred ATF from enforcing the rule anywhere in the United States. [read post]