A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two members of the 2nd American Militia who allegedly conspired to “start a war” with the U.S. Border Patrol and murder the agency’s officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents.
An ATF investigator based in Michigan was convicted in late April of leaking hundreds of internal, sensitive records about the agency’s plans to inspect federal firearms licenses to a person connected to gun rights advocacy groups.
The number of mass shootings in the U.S. dropped last year, but the number of victims injured in those attacks rose, according to the FBI.
After the TSA seized a record number of firearms at airports in 2022, the number of guns intercepted at airport checkpoints increased more than 10% in the first quarter of 2023, compared to the same period last year, according to new data.
One of the top elected officials in Missouri who are refusing to cooperate with ATF has a brother whose gun shop was raided by the agency.
A Florida man accused of opening fire at ATF agents and police officers during a high-speed chase in January 2022 has been charged with armed robbery, armed carjacking and attempting to murder federal agents, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
U.S. House Republicans are demanding testimony from ATF Director Steven Dettelbach and others as conservative lawmakers plan to grill the agency during a Judiciary Committee hearing in April.
The FBI issued a recorder number of gun seizures orders over the past two years from people who failed federal background checks, according to newly released data.
