Millions of people who should be barred from legally buying guns may still be eligible to purchase a firearm because government agencies are failing to alert the FBI’s background-check system of citizens with criminal convictions and mental illnesses.
Even if the government decided to take away people’s guns, the ATF is so understaffed that it would be unable to follow through.
By Jeffrey Anderson For ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Nutveena Sirirojnananont is staring at a possible 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for ordering eight guns online that she directed to a federally-licensed firearms dealer in New Hampshire, but she’s all but guaranteed a fraction of that. The Newmarket, NH, woman pleaded guilty in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The National Rifle Association has never really been much of a friend of ATF. The NRA sees the agency as carrying out a mission that is contrary to its own. So it’s interesting that NRA News has put together a video that casts an ATF agent in good light. Then again,…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF gets its share of criticism from Congress and the National Rifle Association. But the agency still plays a vital role in solving crimes like the Boston Marathon Bombing, the Washington Post reports. In the past two weeks, ATF agents investigated the Boston Marathon bombings and the fertilized plant…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s nauseating to say the least to see how spineless our Washington lawmakers are, how fearful they are when it comes to standing up to the NRA and the people who insist that universal background checks are too intrusive and assault weapons are necessary to own. The Newtown shootings should have…
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San Francisco Chronicle Editorial One of the gun lobby’s favorite mantras is that the nation doesn’t need any more laws to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals; it needs to start by enforcing those that are on the books. But that argument evaporates upon closer inspection of the federal government’s systems for tracking and…
