FBI Arrests California Man for Threatening to Kill Boston Globe Reporters
The 68-year-old suspect echoed President Trump, calling journalists “the enemy of the people.”
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Ex-DEA Special Agent Pleads Guilty to Selling Guns to Suspected Drug Traffickers
A former supervisory special agent for the DEA in Nogales, Ariz., faces up to five years in prison for illegally selling firearms, including to suspected drug traffickers.
Tampa Bay Times Editorial: ATF Needs to Get Tougher on Gun Dealers
By Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board Gun dealers who break the law by turning a blind eye to federal licensing rules are as dangerous to society as people who have no right to a possess a firearm in the first place. Yet a recent report shows that the federal agency responsible for policing the legal…
Legislation Would Require ATF to Create A Computerized, Searchable Data Base
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Here’s a bill that make sense. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida has introduced legislation to establish a computerized, searchable database of gun records under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Monday. The Crime Gun Tracing Modernization Act would strike a current federal prohibition on the creation of a searchable…
Strikingly Similar Traits Found Among American Mass Killers in Secret Service Study
A majority of the assailants in mass attacks in the U.S. last year shared strikingly similar traits, a new Secret Service report found.
Lawmakers: FBI Lacks Strategy to Handle Tips After Blunder over Fla. School Shooter
Acting FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich acknowledged to members of Congress on Tuesday that the bureau failed to properly follow up on two warning calls about the former student who gunned down 17 students and teachers at a Florida school on Valentine’s Day.
Trump Directs Justice Department to Propose Regulations to Ban Bump Stocks
President Trump, in a significant departure from his uncompromising, pro-NRA stance on guns, is directing the Justice Department to propose regulations to “ban all devices” such as the bump stocks used in the Las Vegas mass shooting.
FBI Faces Mounting Pressure over Failure to Act on Tip about School Shooter
The FBI’s admission that it failed to properly follow up on a tip about the Florida school shooter has drawn mounting criticism, including calls for the bureau’s boss to step down.