President Trump Sends 20 ATF Agents to Chicago: Gun Tweet of the Day
Crime and killings in Chicago are "epidemic"? Perhaps not the best choice of words, given that gun control advocates want people to think of "gun violence" as a "public health crisis" that requires civilian...
The Responsibility and Costs of Selling a “Crime Gun”
In our Quote of the Day post yesterday, we noted the response of Tampa Arms Company owner Thom Hauser when asked about the consequences of selling a gun to someone who later uses it...
ATF Gun Tracing Van – A Federal Boondoogle?
"The ATF is building a second gun tracing van and deploying it to Baltimore later this summer," our Bloomberg-funded friends at The Trace report. "When a ballistics van was parked there in May, it...
ATF Starts Instant Approval of Dealer-to-Dealer NFA Transfers
These days you can walk into almost any gun store and find silencers in stock. Just a few years ago that wasn't the case. You needed to order a silencer from a distributor and...
Firearms Concierge: Machine Gun Madness
I was out to lunch recently when I got a call. Not wanting to deal, I sent it to voicemail and listened to the message. The caller was someone I'd met at the...
BREAKING: Silencer Shop Form 4 Barcodes Slash NFA Wait Times
With support from Dead Air Armament and GEMTECH, Silencer Shop created software that digitizes all ATF Form 4 information into a single barcode. Instead of NFA inspectors having to manually enter everything on a physical...
Mossberg 590 Shockwave, “Non-NFA Firearms” Legal in Texas Beginning September 1
Thanks to the byzantine regulations that define what guns are and are not legal for Americans to own, there's a classification of gats that fall into a sort of legal limbo. As they're technically...
The US Now Has More Than 400 Million Privately Owned Firearms
The number of private firearms in the United States continues to soar. According to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, (ATF) figures just released, the number of firearms added to the private stock...
ATF Alert to FFLs and NFA Dealers in Advance of Hurricane Irma
You may have read our earlier post regarding gun laws in Florida in advance or Hurricane Irma's landfall. Of particular note were Bennet Richt's warnings concerning NFA items carried across state lines. The ATF...
A Note From Rick Vasquez, NFA Expert Consultant and Former FTB Acting Chief
Rick Vasquez, former Assistant Chief and Acting Chief of the ATF's Firearms Technology Branch and current industry and government consultant on the National Firearms Act and other ATF and firearms classification matters, penned the...
ATF Firearms Trace Numbers Continue to Soar. Who Cares?
Over the The Trace, they're tracing the number of traces performed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (And Really Big Fires). But even the staunch gun control advocates at Michael Bloomberg's...
Exclusive: TTAG Shoots Defense Distributed’s First Ghost Gunner Pistols
https://youtu.be/G0hYdfVZBe0
Defense Distributed, makers of the Ghost Gunner desktop CNC machine and open-source providers of CNC and 3D printer firearms blueprints, has a big announcement today. Namely, that the Ghost Gunner can now finish 80%...