eForms: All the Proof I Ever Needed
At a recent work event, a colleague mentioned that they thought that we should enact some "common sense" gun laws. The usual suspects tumbled forth. Background checks on all purchases. Waiting periods. Registration. Unless...
ATF Entrapment II: Chicago Gun Dealer Edition
I've railed against "stings" many times in these electronic pages. It's lazy, inherently corrupt police work that puts the government on a slippery slope to tyranny (creating criminals to control the populace). In a...
Feds Seize California “Ghost Guns”
"Eight men were charged Thursday with making and distributing dozens of firearms, many of them assault-style weapons illegally equipped with silencers, in what federal officials are calling one of the biggest takedowns in California's...
NICS System Now Has Classifications for Private Sales
An FFL friend noticed something new on the ATF's NICS portal. Under the Purpose ID section, there are now a variety of classifications for private sales of firearms. And when he signs into the...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: ATF Special Agent Marc Delpit
"Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms special agent Marc Delpit, father of a St. Thomas High School football player, allegedly got into an argument with a fellow team father during halftime in a recent...
CBP: We Never Asked the ATF to Reclassify 7N6 5.45×39 Ammo
On April 7th of last year the ATF reclassified the cheap and widely available 7N6 5.45x39 ammunition as "armor piercing" and banned it from importation. This was widely seen by the gun community as...
NFA Freedom Alliance: “The NFA Should Be Ripped Out”
I looked in my gun safe the other day (searching for a firearm I could sell to cover some AvGas related expenses) I came to a sudden and terrible realization: I can't sell any...
Judge: SIG SAUER’s MPX “Muzzle Brake” Is Actually a Silencer
Is the extensive muzzle brake permanently attached to the end of one version of the MPX's barrel a muzzle brake or a "silencer"? The battle between SIG SAUER and the ATF has been raging for...
BREAKING: ATF Declares Soda Can Launcher an AOW, All Owners Now Possibly Felons
X Products came out with a nifty little device a while back that uses blank 5.56 NATO cartridges to launch soda cans through the air. It was a really cool and fun concept, and...
AP Waco Shooting Analysis Makes Congressional Inquiry All the More Urgent
The Associated Press has analyzed evidence from a May shootout in which nine members of motorcycle clubs were killed outside a Waco restaurant and concluded some were hit by police bullets, a Friday AP...
Federal Judge Bars Brian Terry Killers’ Defense From Mentioning ATF Operation Fast & Furious
"When a jury gathers next week for the trial of two men charged with the murder of a U.S. federal agent, it will not hear any details of how two guns found at the...
Grassley Asks AG Lynch About Sexual Harassment and More at ATF
“Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking about the handling of multiple claims of sexual harassment, bullying, gender discrimination and witness intimidation by senior Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) managers...