The Justice Department finalized a new rule that would close the so-called “gun show loophole” by requiring anyone who sells firearms to run federal background checks.
Unlicensed firearms dealers were responsible for more than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. over the span of five years, according to new data released by ATF.
The Arkansas airport executive who was wounded in a shootout with ATF agents died on Thursday, authorities said.
The city of Baltimore is suing the ATF over a 2003 law that prohibits local officials from accessing the agency’s firearms trace databases
The U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Wednesday on whether the ATF can ban “bump stocks,” the gun attachments that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.
The TSA seized more firearms at airports in 2023 than any year in its 22-year history, and a vast majority were loaded.
An Arizona man accused of threatening to kill FBI agents had a cache of weapons at his home when FBI agents turned up to arrest him, according to court documents.
A 72-year-old Oregon man who booby-trapped his home and injured an FBI agent with a shotgun blast was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison.
