City of Baltimore and Everytown Sue ATF in Effort to Overturn the Tiahrt Amendment
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is suing the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for data about where guns used in city crimes originate, the latest move from city leaders to address the...
Glockswitchs dot com – Internet Scammer or ATF Sting Operation?
If you don't know what a GLOCK switch is, you can catch up here, here, and here. Long story short, they're illegal devices that convert a perfectly legal stock semi-automatic GLOCK pistol into a...
When the ATF Director Publicly Acknowledges That Gun Control Laws Don’t Really Apply to...
At the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, machine gun conversion devices have become one of the top enforcement priorities. An ATF report on guns used in crimes found that the number...
Caveat Emptor: Not Every Pawn Shop Pistol is Such a Bargain
We'll assume this isn't a Photoshop job or some other fake intended to get clicks. And no, we don't know which Cash America pawn shop had this G23 for sale in its case. But...
How to Undo the Damage Done to Gun Rights By the Biden Administration
By Lee Williams
The Biden-Harris administration has done more harm to the Second Amendment than all previous administrations combined. Biden and his unelected, behind-the-scenes shot-callers have been methodical in their multifaceted war on our civil...
Fifth Circuit Panel Unanimously Strikes Down ATF’s ‘Frame and Receiver’ Rule Redefining What
Is anyone tired of winning in the courts yet? No, of course not. That's why yesterday's news of yet another Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals victory was just as sweet as the others. The...
Bill Introduced in Congress to Divert Suppressor Tax Stamp Dollars to Reduce Form 1,...
Silencer Central has rounded up support for a new bill that was introduced in Congress yesterday that would divert tax stamp revenue from the sale of suppressors to the Pittman Robertson conservation fund, to...
ATF Lets Chicago’s Machine-Gun Toting Thugs Slide, Concentrates Instead on Banning Legal AR-15 Rifles
By Lee Williams
More than 500 people have been shot and killed in Chicago this year. More than 2,220 have been shot and wounded. On any weekend, Chicago streets reverberate with the sound of fully...
US District Court Judge Issues Nationwide Injunction Blocking Pistol Brace Ban Enforcement
In the wake of a 2021 shooting in Boulder, Colorado, BATFE decided that it was time to reassess their view of gun regulation. Instead of further investigating what motivated Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa (whom...
NSSF Launches Fort Worth Campaign Against Illegal Gun Purchases
From the NSSF . . .
NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, together with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), announced a month-long public education campaign...
ATF Director Publicly Calls for Universal Background Checks and an ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach pledged to Congress during his nomination hearing that he’d “use the tools Congress gives me,” and committed to “being a fair regulator” of the firearm...
The ATF’s Prosecution of Larry Vickers Was About Headlines and a High Profile Scalp
By Lee Williams
The ATF wants to imprison a decorated American soldier for a series of victimless crimes, even though the federal regulations he’s accused of violating may not be constitutional, and questions about ATF’s...