Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gunmaker is suing the ATF for claiming the company is selling a gun silencer. Gunmaker Sig Sauer said that the ATF wrong classified its “muzzle brake” as a silencer. “If classified as a silencer, no market exists for the subject device given that it will not silence, muffle, or diminish the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lashed out at the ATF’s use and treatment of people with mental disabilities in undercover stings, saying he is “greatly troubled” by the information, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. “The notion that you would use mentally unstable people, you would tattoo them, that you would do ridiculous…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Undercover ATF agents renting a storefront had their energy shut off by the landlord because they exceeded their monthly allotment. The agents responded by getting the landlord’s account information and calling the electricity company pretending to be him, an internal investigation revealed, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Account statements were improperly taken…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ATF Director B. Todd Jones’ first appearance before Congress wasn’t a pleasant one. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that congressional members from both sides slammed Jones over the agency’s blunders in undercover storefront operations. Some of the problems included using people with mental disabilities to promote undercover operations. Jones defended the agency,…
By Jeffrey Anderson For ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nutveena Sirirojnananont is staring at a possible 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for ordering eight guns online that she directed to a federally-licensed firearms dealer in New Hampshire, but she’s all but guaranteed a fraction of that. The Newmarket, NH, woman pleaded guilty in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A key figure in the Fast & Furious gun-running operation was permitted to collect two salaries while on leave from his federal government job, the Washington Times reports. The Justice Department’s inspector general created the report after finding that three of William McMahon’s superiors with the ATF “exercised poor judgment” by allowing…
By Jeffrey Anderson For ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nutveena Sirirojnananont is staring at a possible 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for ordering eight guns online that she directed to a federally-licensed firearms dealer in New Hampshire, but she’s all but guaranteed a fraction of that. The Newmarket, NH, woman pleaded guilty in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Saying the ATF “dangerously mismanaged” a program aimed at gunning guns off the street, Rep. Darrell Issa is subpoenaing the agency for more information. Issa chairs the House Oversight and Government reform Committee, which is investigating the ATF’s blundered storefront operations. Issa criticized the ATF for showing a “complete lack of cooperation.”…
