Ex-ATF Agent: Let’s Stop Pretending Lawmakers Are Regulating Lethal Firearms
When it comes to regulating firearms, we only pretend to legislate. And even when we do legislate, we only pretend to make them safer.
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ATF Agent Accused of Gambling with Government Funds While on Duty
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ATF Agent Shoots Man in Backyard During a Weapons Raid
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National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence Urges Obama to Give ATF Resources, Appoint Permanent Director
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence is urging President Barack Obama to provide ATF with adequate resources to battle gun violence and appoint a permanent director for the agency. In a letter dated Nov. 4, Jim Johnson, the Baltimore County Police chief, who is chair of the anti-gun…
A Brief Chat With Tom Brandon, Head of ATF, on Gun Violence and the Need For More Staffing
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com CHICAGO — Tom Brandon, head of ATF, wonders at time when gun violence is such a pressing issue in America, why the agency isn’t getting more funding for additional agents. He says with an additional 200 agents “we could really make a huge difference.” Brandon became an ATF agent in 1989….
Millions of Firearms Purchase Records Languish in ATF Facility, Hampering Investigations
Firearm purchase records are an important resource for law enforcement because the documents can help trace guns used in crimes.
ATF Acting Director Tom Brandon to the Troops: ‘My Title is Changing, My Duties Are Not’
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Tom Brandon, will no longer be the acting director of ATF as of Wednesday. He’ll be deputy director. But Brandon wants the troops to know: “My title is changing, my duties are not.” By law, Brandon can’t hold that interim title of acting director for longer than 210 days. It runs…