By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The Washington Times reports that there’s some confusion between gun manufacturers and the ATF. “ATF regulations for the manufacture of weapons are often unclear,” the paper reports, “leading to reliance on a secretive system” where proposed guns are submitted for approval one by one and “judgements are private and, it turns out,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder, a favorite target of Congressional Republicans in the wake of the Fast and Furious debacle in which ATF officials let guns “walk” from Southwestern dealers in the US to drug cartels in Mexico, is getting a rare endorsement from a prominent official in Utah–“perhaps the reddest of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sadly, investigators believe the off-duty ATF agent who was shot and killed while struggling with a robbery suspect last Saturday at a Long Island pharmacy, was likely shot by friendly fire from a retired Nassau County police lieutenant, the New York Daily News reported, citing unnamed sources. The paper reported that…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Federal investigators are looking into a suspicious early-Sunday blaze at a Florida abortion clinic which has seen violence in the past, reports the Associated Press. The fire occurred at American Family Planning in the panhandle town of Pensacola, Fla. this weekend and largely destroyed the two-story building, but no people were…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A new leader has been named to the nation’s largest uniformed federal law enforcement agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, reports the website AllGov.com. David V. Aguilar has been named the head of the agency. The move came after after Senate Republicans refused to hold a hearing on President Barack Obama’s…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The then-acting head of ATF, Ken Melson, told Congressional investigators back in July that he was irate that his underlings didn’t tell him about the controversial agency program Fast and Furious, an operation that encouraged gun dealers in Arizona to sell to “straw purchasers” with the hopes of tracing the weapons…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man was sentenced to nearly 14 years for a 2010 arson incident, according to a statement from the FBI. Michael Jacques, a 27-year-old of Springfield, Mass., was sentenced to 166 months in federal prison in connection with the arson of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The ATF is loosening restrictions on the sale of guns to noncitizens, reports the New York Times. Justice Department lawyers have decided that a rule requiring noncitizens to document that they have lived in a state for at least 90 days has no legal basis, according to a letter sent to…
