By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — ONLY ABOUT 10 percent of the nation’s 100,000 licensed gun dealers are audited each year by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF cannot fine wayward dealers; its only tool at the moment involves revoking a miscreant’s license. And that happens only about…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An attorney for a Los Angeles cop who was acquitted last week of illegally exporting guns says the laws are so confusing it’s difficult for people to adhere to them all. “There is so much confusion when comes to these requirements,” Humbarto Diaz, a federal public defender, said in an interview…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An El Paso FBI agent is headed off to prison. John Shipley, now formerly of the FBI, was sentenced Tuesday in El Paso to two years in prison for illegally selling more than $118,000 worth of guns without a license and lying to ATF agents about the sales. U.S. District Judge…
The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — Give Mexican President Felipe Calderon credit for honesty as well as courage. Last week he presided over a three-day public conference to assess the results of nearly four years of war against Mexico’s drug cartels. Most of the facts were grim: — According to the chief of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 55-year-old Texas cop had a nice little thing going — that is until he got busted by ATF and the Texas Rangers. Authorities charged that Harry Leroy Kelly, as a cop with the Cleveland Police Department in Liberty County, Tex., sold guns and ammunition from the evidence room. He is…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The head of the FBI in Chicago and city’s Mayor Richard Daley got into a little tiff this past week. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Robert Grant, head of the Chicago FBI, shot back at the mayor who suggested the agency wasn’t doing enough to combat gun violence in the Windy…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News As Internet headlines swirl about an Egyptian-American botany professor who was detained in Cairo today for carrying guns and ammunition in his luggage, keep one thing in mind: Americans bring guns to the airport all the time. Sometimes it’s wrong, and sometimes it’s not. The Transportation Security Administration says…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF is investigating the theft of nearly two dozen weapons from the shooting range of a suburban Chicago police department, the Chicago Tribune is reporting. The weapons stolen from the Harvey Police Department included handguns and MP5 and AR-15 assault weapons, the Trib reported. They were reported stolen from a trailer…
