An ATF agent who shot the executive director of Little Rock’s airport during an early morning raid in March will not be charged because the shooting was justified, an Arkansas prosecutor said Friday.
CBP agents discovered three backpacks filled with firearms while investigating illegal activity in North Dakota.
The ATF’s role in a pre-dawn raid that ended in the death of an airport executive from Arkansas took center stage at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
A group of conservative states is suing the ATF over a new federal rule that will require people who sell firearms online and at gun shows to conduct background checks of customers.
The Justice Department finalized a new rule that would close the so-called “gun show loophole” by requiring anyone who sells firearms to run federal background checks.
Unlicensed firearms dealers were responsible for more than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. over the span of five years, according to new data released by ATF.
The Arkansas airport executive who was wounded in a shootout with ATF agents died on Thursday, authorities said.
An ATF agent was injured in a shootout early Tuesday with the leader of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Arkansas.
