A former U.S. Border Patrol agent faces federal charges after he was arrested in Everett, Wash., for allegedly in possession of homemade silencers and parts to build a machine gun.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gunmaker is suing the ATF for claiming the company is selling a gun silencer. Gunmaker Sig Sauer said that the ATF wrong classified its “muzzle brake” as a silencer. “If classified as a silencer, no market exists for the subject device given that it will not silence, muffle, or diminish the…
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…
