Williams: The ATF Has Outlived Its Usefulness
By Lee Williams
According to an exclusive story published by AmmoLand News, the ATF is about to force millions of gun owners to register their pistol braces as short-barreled rifles, which will then be regulated...
ATF Agents Attempt ‘Solvent Trap’ Confiscation, Man Tells Them To Get a Warrant [VIDEO]
The boys from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives and really big fires have grown increasingly busy in recent weeks. If they're not running down legitimate gun owners while fishing for straw purchasers,...
ProPublica Horrified That a Lawful Business is Defending Itself in the Courts
After the 2021 ghost gun law passed in Nevada, Polymer80 hired the New York City law firm Greenspoon Marder to file the lawsuit in Yerington, an onion farming town that’s the seat of the...
Biden’s War on Guns: A Multi-Generation Florida Family Gun Business is the Latest Casualty
By Lee Williams
Master gunsmith James Morrison founded JM Gun Repair 46 years ago, after doing gun repairs in his garage.
The gun shop has been a local institution ever since, offering firearms, black powder and...
ATF Director Using 18th Century Tech to Salvage Agency’s Shattered Reputation
By Lee Williams of The Second Amendment Foundation's Investigative Journalism Project. Find Lee's Substack HERE:
The ATF has beclowned itself yet again.
Last month, when the agency sent Special Agents Larry, Moe and Shemp to the...
Caught on Video: ATF Agent Creates Illegal Gun Registry With Her Cell Phone
By Lee Williams
Dave Nagel, one of three co-owners of Black Metal Firearms in Mesa, Arizona, said there was something odd about the inspector the ATF sent to audit his gun shop late last year.
Pamela...
ATF Issues Conflicting Statements About Intimidating Warrantless Gun Owner Investigations, Calls Tactics ‘Entirely Appropriate’
By Lee Williams
ATF’s severely underworked public information officers are flustered. A story we first published Monday about a surprise firearm inspection at a Delaware man’s home has gone viral, exposing their agents’ misdeeds and...
Knock, Knock: Video Shows ATF Straw Purchase Task Force Asking to See Delaware Man’s...
By Lee Williams
The homeowner was alerted there were trespassers on his property by motion detectors outside his front door. A live video feed from his doorbell camera showed three armed men wearing tactical vests,...
Dettelbach’s Confirmation Will Hasten the Neutering of the ATF
With last week's confirmation of Steve Dettelbach to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, gun control advocates and other nanny-staters are celebrating the agency's first confirmed director since 2015. But what...
Anatomy of an FBI ‘Terrorism’ Sting: Convicting a Former 911 Operator of a National...
By Lee Williams
By all accounts, Yunis Isaac Mejia was a good guy – certainly not the type of man who should be spending his next two birthdays behind the wire in a federal prison.
Mejia,...
Why the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Has Politicians and Gun Control Advocates Worried
A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the authority for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to write their own rules without clear congressional authorization that Congress intended to delegate to the EPA could...
Gun Owners of America Sues ATF to Block New Definition of Frame or Receiver...
John Crump at Ammoland reports that
Gun Owners of America (GOA), Bridge City Ordinance, and North Dakota resident Eliezer Jimenez have sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over its new rule...