ATF Approves SB Tactical Collapsible Pistol Arm Brace
SB Tactical's pistol arm brace concept has had a profound impact on the firearms market; it single-handedly (pun intended) saved the AR-15 pistol from obscurity. Up to now, the pistol arm brace has been a one-size-fits-all (or...
Felonies, Fines, Probation Over Stag Arms’ Sloppy Accounting Practices
You may remember that Stag Arms ran into some regulatory trouble with our friends at the ATF last year at this time. They seemed to have had difficulty accounting for all of their firearms...
ATF Traced 364K Guns Recovered from Crime Scenes in 2015. And?
"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) traced more than 364,000 guns that were recovered from international crime scenes in 2015," thehill.com reports. "Tracing guns from manufacture to purchase helps law enforcement...
BREAKING: DOJ Fast & Furious Friday Document Dump
"The U.S. Department of Justice released thousands of subpoenaed documents about the controversial 'Operation Fast and Furious' gun trafficking investigation to a congressional committee on Friday," Reuters reports. "The operation was a failed effort...
Form 1 SBR ‘Manufacturing’ May Become Legal in WA
Washington State residents were surprised to find that the ATF was denying their Form 1 applications to build short barrel rifles. As discussed here, this was due to what most assumed was an oversight...
Deadline for Fast & Furious Docs Passes. Where’s the Info?
"On Jan. 19, federal Judge Amy Berman—an Obama appointee—ordered the administration to produce the documents demanded," the NRA's americas1stfreedom.org reminds us. "The deadline Berman set for the administration to comply was this past Tuesday,...
How to Make a Snowball Machine Gun (No NFA Stamp Required)
https://youtu.be/JinpVA6p8Mo
Destructive device? Nick? Anyway, God bless Yankee ingenuity. And anyone who thinks that outlawing or even confiscating millions of guns would leave Americans without a ballistic solution to their self-defense needs is unaware of...
Do You Need to Engrave Your Form 1’ed SBR?
This TTAG article seems to have stirred up some controversy. I asked the BATFE a straightforward question, and reported truthfully on the answer I received. It seems that a number of people are...
Mexicans Find ATF-Enabled .50 Cal At “El Chapo’s” Hideout
Yesterday, a federal judge struck down President Obama's claim of Executive Privilege over documents related to operation Fast and Furious - the ATF program that allowed Mexican drug thugs to purchase firearms at U.S....
BREAKING: Federal Judge Rejects Obama’s Executive Privilege Claim for Operation Fast & Furious Docs
politco.com reports that "U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Justice Department's public disclosures about its response to the so-called "gun walking" controversy undercut Obama's executive privilege claim." Translation: that...
What The GAO Report on Mexican Guns Doesn’t Tell You, And What That Tells...
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) recently released a report on guns confiscated by the Mexican police and military, submitted to the ATF for tracing. As RF reported, the document is deeply flawed -- by the government's own...
U.S. to Mexico Gun Smuggling Stats. Here We Go Again . . .
Back in the day, the Obama administration ran a black bag job called Operation Fast and Furious. As far as we know, the program was designed to establish a link between American gun stores and Mexican...