A Florida man accused of opening fire at ATF agents and police officers during a high-speed chase in January 2022 has been charged with armed robbery, armed carjacking and attempting to murder federal agents, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
U.S. House Republicans are demanding testimony from ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and others as conservative lawmakers plan to grill the agency during a Judiciary Committee hearing in April.
By Steve Neavling Active and retired ATF agents held a ceremony Tuesday honoring the four agents who were shot and killed 30 years ago during the siege of David Koresh’s Branch Davidian religious group in Waco, Texas. Agents Conway LeBleu, Todd McKeehan, Robert Williams and Steven Willis, as well as six Branch Davidians, were killed…
By Allan Lengel The world only gets more dangerous. ATF reports a sharp uptick in the the number of machine gun conversion devices illegally being sold nationwide, station News4Jax reports. The agency reports that 814 devices were confiscated from 2012 to 2016, compared to 5,454 from 2017 to 2021, an increase of more than 500…
By Allan Lengel With the endless mass shootings in the U.S., ATF Director Steven M. Dettelbach says he’s concerned Americans will stop getting outraged about them. “One of my biggest fears is that people will somehow come to accept or be callous to the idea that this level of firearms violence is somehow just something that’s…
Far-right U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a bill on Tuesday to abolish the ATF after the agency tightened regulations on pistol-stabilizing braces.
A 19-year-old man has been charged with robbing an undercover ATF agent at gunpoint in a grocery store parking lot in Chicago.
By Allan Lengel A U.S. Navy sailor faces sentencing next March 31 after being convicted last week by a federal jury in Norfolk, Va., of possessing and selling unregistered machine guns in what turned out to be an undercover ATF operation. Patrick Tate Adamiak, 28, was convicted Friday. Authorities charged that between October 2021 and…
