Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The gun lobby is making it difficult for President Obama find a new permanent director of the ATF, the Chicago Tribune reports. Obama had to give up on his previous nomination Andrew Traver, who headed the ATF office in Chicago, after pressure from the gun lobby made it impossible to get Senate…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ATF agents shot a pit bull Thursday for attacking their service dog while delivering a state warrant in Arizona, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Agents were searching a property near Tucson area for firearms and drugs when the pit bull attacked, the Star wrote. The service dog, Bora, was mauled by the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif) said Friday that President Barack Obama’s nomination of B. Todd Jones to permanent director of ATF is a slap in the face. “Acting Director Jones was at the helm of ATF as many troubling problems from the fallout of Operation Fast and Furious festered,” Issa, chairman…
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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ATF Special Agent John Dodson, who was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the botched gun-running operation Fast and Furious, has been cleared by his bosses and now is considered a hero, Fox News reports. John Dodson has been cleared of any wrongdoing, was praised by Congress for bringing the botched operation…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Scott Sweetow, head of the Atlanta ATF Division, is moving on to the Midwest to head up the St. Paul Division, which includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. Sweetow, who began his career with ATF in 1990 in Los Angeles, spent several years assigned in the Arson and Explosives…
Newsday Editorial Congress should unshackle the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the fight against illegal guns. Restrictions on the bureau’s activities are hobbling efforts to combat firearms trafficking and reduce the day-to-day gun violence plaguing the nation. Americans have a constitutional right to own guns. And licensed gun dealers who operate legally…
