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.
A Chicago man who shot two ATF agents and a Chicago police officer in July 2021 was sentenced to 27 years in prison
House Republicans are now the ones defunding the police.
The city of Baltimore is suing the ATF over a 2003 law that prohibits local officials from accessing the agency’s firearms trace databases
The U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Wednesday on whether the ATF can ban “bump stocks,” the gun attachments that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.
