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NRA ILA
April 28, 2018
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) licenses and closely monitors all FFLs and strictly enforces any violation of federal law. SB 1657 and HB 1273 would have gone so far beyond federal law in its mandatory regulations and red tape imposed at the state level that theyÃâà...
Torrington Register Citizen
April 28, 2018
TORRINGTON — A city man is facing charges for allegedly manufacturing an automatic weapon in his home, according to an affidavit released Friday. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Sean Dey, 39, of West Street, made a fully automatic machine gun called aÃâà...
NMPolitics.net
April 27, 2018
Jackson and Coleman, two of the 28 black people arrested in the federal Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF)'s operation, are trying to prove the agency racially profiled them in a massive undercover operation. Armijo's order represented a step toward that goal. The NCIC queries, not only forÃâà...
Chron.com
April 27, 2018
The half-dozen men were not able to break into the store, according to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Houston Field Division. About two hours later, one of the men came back to the store with a sledgehammer and excavating tool, the ATF stated. He was able to break through andÃâà...
KABC-TV
April 26, 2018
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided a home in Orange County Thursday morning as part of an ongoing investigation. The raid was conducted at a residence in Santa Ana, which is one of six locations targeted across Southern California, an ATF official toldÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
April 19, 2018
In Houston, however, investigators will now be able to image and link bullets in just a few hours, following the deployment Thursday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' of the agency's mobile ballistics testing van. “The NIBIN van allows us to get leads back a little bit closer to realÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
April 16, 2018
The firearms trace data were compiled by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, between 2012 and 2016. The figures include guns used in crimes and weapons found by authorities but not tied to specific crimes. The analysis bolsters a claim by Gov. Phil Murphy in recentÃâà...
Olean Times Herald
April 14, 2018
... information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the theft of guns from a federally licensed firearms dealer. The combined reward is being offered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)Ãâà...
Valley News Live
April 14, 2018
MINOT, N,D. (KFYR) -- Two people are in custody in Minot following a joint operation between agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Ward County Narcotics Task Force. The officers executed a search warrant at 9:30 a.m Thursday at a residence in the 2800 block of 1st AvenueÃâà...
Alabama's News Leader
April 14, 2018
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) are offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of suspect(s) involved in an April 9th firearms theft. ATF says burglars stole at least eight firearms from Pat's Archery and Outdoors at 306 HighwayÃâà...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Newsroom
April 12, 2018
... in U.S. District Court for illegally receiving and shipping firearms, following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) offices in Bangor and Portland, Department of Commerce, and Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Crime Report
April 12, 2018
Meanwhile, a report by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General showed record-keeping deficiencies, storage shortcomings and just plain sloppiness with guns at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The Inspector General's office determined that the ATF,Ãâà...
AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
April 12, 2018
Shannon Broom notified the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as well as Ingalls security about Montana outrageous claims as well as his past history. Once committed to a mental institution, Montana became a prohibited person. He was legally not allowed to possess guns. The ATFÃâà...
Bay News 9
April 11, 2018
The ring is accused of stealing more than 150 firearms around Central Florida. Kendric Collier, 28, was arrested Friday afternoon at an apartment on Oyster Bay Circle in Altamonte Springs, a spokesperson with the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said. "According to ATF, lawÃâà...
WIS
April 10, 2018
Darrin Paul George was arrested on weapon offenses in South Carolina. (Source: ATF). COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) -. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Charlotte Field Division arrested a suspect Monday that was wanted out of South Carolina.
FactCheck.org
April 3, 2018
Office of Legislative Research, Connecticut General Assembly. 12 Jan 2009. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. National Firearms Act. Atf.gov. 1 Dec 2016. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Letter to Slide Fire.
New York Times
April 1, 2018
BELTSVILLE, Md. — About an hour outside Washington, tucked in a cinder-block building run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, orderly piles of charred and twisted matter are spread across a secure laboratory. Inside is evidence from Austin, Tex., where Mark Conditt, 23,Ãâà...
Arizona Daily Star
March 19, 2018
That goes to whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will decide if it can — and should — declare bump stocks illegal because they create machine guns. While machine guns are not illegal, they can be possessed only by those who have undergone a far more extensive andÃâà...
OneNewsNow
March 19, 2018
“That disagreement was settled at the end of Obama's second term, when the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel sided with the ATF's ... “Federal prosecutors brought a total of 5,082 gun violation cases in 2013 recommended by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, comparedÃâà...
PolitiFact
March 17, 2018
He turned to Thomas Brandon, acting director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives: "You're aware of that, correct?" ... Frank Kelsey, chief of the public affairs division at ATF, said tracing a gun used in a crime back to a dealer does not necessarily indicate illegal activity by theÃâà...
The Hill
March 16, 2018
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday to obtain the data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The group claims that ATF improperly refused to hand over national and state data on theÃâà...
Albany Times Union
March 16, 2018
Push for legislative bump stock ban given boost by top ATF official .... But in the meantime, Brandon insisted, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and its parent, the Department of Justice, have proposed a rule banning bump stocks that is now undergoing review at the White HouseÃâà...
ThinkProgress
March 13, 2018
The Justice Department announced over the weekend that it had begun taking steps to effectively halt the sale of bump stocks, stopping short of calling the move an all-out ban. However, the decision is unlikely to go very far without congressional intervention. “Today the Department of Justice submitted toÃâà...
WOAI
March 13, 2018
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Texas Department of Public Safety assisted APD with the investigation. Chief Manley said they believe the two incidents were related to a similar incident that happened on March 2 and left aÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 13, 2018
Reading from his 73-page written ruling during a Chicago hearing, Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo questioned the overall fairness of the phony stash-house stings, which involve U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents posing as disgruntled Mexican cartel couriers whoÃâà...
The Hill
March 11, 2018
A Virginia Beach schoolteacher running for Congress who posted an online video sawing apart an AR-15 rifle is now under investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to ABC 13 News. Karen Mallard (D) says she destroyed the rifle, the kind used in the Parkland,Ãâà...
TCPalm
March 10, 2018
Galbraith, whose views sync with most Second Amendment proponents I know, just doesn't think the government should provide venues for guns to be ... his gun shows are federally licensed and run background checks because they don't want to run afoul of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, FirearmsÃâà...
NewsChannel5.com
March 9, 2018
State lawmakers decided to put legislation regarding bump stocks on hold, saying they're waiting for a federal decision from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Representative Glen Casada said he wants to wait until they make a decision before Tennessee does. The bill wouldÃâà...
W*USA 9
March 9, 2018
(WVEC) -- The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating congressional candidate Karen Mallard after she posted a video on Facebook that shows her cutting apart an AR-15 rifle. The school teacher and Democrat is running for Virginia's 2nd Congressional District,Ãâà...
Pasadena Weekly
March 8, 2018
A second Pasadena police officer has been suspended in connection with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) probe of Lt. Vasken Gourdikian, who faces federal charges of selling weapons online without a license, possessing an unregistered firearm and lying onÃâà...
The Hill
March 8, 2018
But before vesting vast new power in federal enforcers, the record of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agency must be considered. A 1982 Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution report on ATF concluded, "Enforcement tactics made possible by current firearms laws are constitutionally, legally,Ãâà...
Sacramento Bee
March 2, 2018
Three men charged with trafficking AR-15-style firearms after ICE, ATF investigations ... The case involving Rodriguez and Sykes is the result of an investigation by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, with special assistance from the Sacramento Police Department and theÃâà...
KCUR
March 2, 2018
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives listed 523 federal firearm licensed dealerships in the nine-county metro Kansas City area in 2016. (Map by Celia Llopis-Jepsen, KCUR 89.3). The ATF data does not account for all the weaponry in the metro area, because it does not reflectÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 2, 2018
David Chipman, a former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agent and Senior Policy Advisor with Giffords, the gun control lobbyists, said ... While young people marched in Florida demanding more gun control, Trump claimed the answer was to give guns to teachers so they could "defend theÃâà...
ABC News
March 2, 2018
The way in which federal laws mandate gun sales records be kept – though not shared – makes it difficult to have an accurate account of the number of guns in the country. Edgar Domenech, a former deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, answered some of the mostÃâà...
witf.org
March 1, 2018
More than 78 hundred guns were stolen in a record-setting 577 burglaries at the nation's gun stores last year. Burglaries at gun shops have increased 70% since 2013 according to the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. There have been a rash of burglaries at gun shops inÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 1, 2018
She doesn't remember when she got it, exactly, but she's pretty sure it was about 15 years ago, on the 10th anniversary of the death of her older brother, Robert J. Williams, a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. He was killed 25 years ago on Feb. 28 one day short ofÃâà...
Washington Examiner
February 27, 2018
The fate of bump stocks in the U.S. is hanging on how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives answers a simple-sounding, but complex, question: What exactly is a machine gun? The ATF started the process of finding an answer to that question last year, after the deadliest shooting inÃâà...
New York Times
February 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — For years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been overlooked in Washington. Overshadowed by more politically powerful law enforcement agencies like the F.B.I., the A.T.F. garnered headlines mostly for notorious episodes, including the deadly 1993 siege inÃâà...
The Boston Globe
February 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — For years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been overlooked in Washington. Overshadowed by more politically powerful law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, the ATF garnered headlines mostly for notorious episodes, including the deadly 1993 siege inÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
December 31, 1999
Some of the dynamite stolen from a pipeline site in Marietta has been recovered, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Charlene Hennessy, ATF spokeswoman, said in an email shortly before 7 p.m. Friday that "dynamite and blasting caps have been recovered from a parkÃâà...
KITV Honolulu
December 31, 1999
(CNN) -- The acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives acknowledged Wednesday that he has been told by some attorneys that banning bump fire stocks through executive regulation would lead to court challenges that would delay the implementation of a ban. Pressed byÃâà...
WBRC FOX6 News
December 31, 1999
The Alabama Department of Insurance says the State Fire Marshal's Office, along with Prattville officers and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), are investigating after a fire started at a postal facility early Monday morning. The front lobby and postal box area of theÃâà...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON — In the wake of the mass shooting last month at a high school in Parkland, Florida, President Donald Trump vowed to use his executive authority to enact gun control through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. But over the past year, the ATF has been moving in theÃâà...
WJLA
December 31, 1999
The law "imposed a tax on the making and transfer of firearms defined by the Act, as well as a special (occupational) tax on persons and entities engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, and dealing in NFA firearms," according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The also requiredÃâà...
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