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…
A Republican Florida state house candidate was banned from Twitter after suggesting he wanted to legalize shooting federal agents.
New ATF Director Steven Dettelbach said collaboration with other law enforcement agencies is key to reducing gun violence.
Steven Dettelbach was sworn in Tuesday as the new ATF director, becoming the first Senate-approved leader of the agency in seven years.
A county Republican Party in Kentucky removed a Facebook post that called new ATF Director Steve Dettelbach a “Jewish anti-gun activist.”
