Oversight and Judiciary Could Ask ATF about Twin Peaks Ballistics Report

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“A McLennan County investigator has obtained a search warrant to extract a bullet from the arm of a biker — killed last week in a wreck — who was wounded in the deadly May 17...

TTAG Exclusive: Fast & Furious Whistleblower Says Put ATF on Trial for Brian Terry’s...

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“My hopes are that the trial judge will deny the United States motion to hide the known connection between ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious and Brian’s murder,” whistleblower and retired ATF agent Jay Dobyns told...

Judge: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Committed “Fraud Against the Court”

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Former ATF agent and whistleblower Jay Dobyns filed objections Thursday to a report from a special master appointed to review allegations of government misconduct arising from his case against the Bureau. As reported in...

Confirmed: VA Gunman Bought His Gun Legally, Passed Background Check

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By Brandon via concealednation.org The firearm used in yesterday’s horrific shooting was purchased legally by the gunman after he passed a federal background check. ABC News reported late last night: "The ATF says the disgruntled former reporter who killed...

ATF May Soon Reclassify Some Machine Guns as “Post Sample” and Non-Transferrable

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When the Hughes Amendment to the National Firearms Act came out, all hell broke loose. May 19th 1986 would be the very last day that anyone could legally register a machine gun, and after...

The Fix Is In? Court Blows the Whistle on ATF Whistle Blower

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“The special master has ruled against me,” former ATF agent and whistleblower Jay Dobyns told supporters and followers of his case on his website. “In his eyes I failed in my attempt to prove...

Waco Biker Autopsies Released…Without Ballistics Reports

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McLennan County has released autopsy reports on nine bikers killed in the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported Thursday. Not included with information released to the public are the ballistic reports,...

ATF Denies Being an ‘Agency’ to Avoid FOIA Compliance Requirements

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A legal response filed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claims a Freedom of Information Act-related complaint improperly targets them. “The ATF is not an ‘agency’ within the meaning of the F.O.I.A.,...

ATF Adds Credit Card Payment Option to NFA Forms

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As if you weren't already giving the ATF too much information on the Form 4 (that's the application for a tax-paid transfer of an NFA item, like a silencer) or a Form 1 (the...

Garland, TX Muhammad Cartoon Shooter Bought Fast & Furious Gun

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Fast & Furious, the laughably described "failed sting operation" run by the bumbling ATF and Eric Holder's Justice Department resulted in the deaths of dozens of Mexican nationals and US Border Patrol Agent Brian...

ATF Re-Classifies Certain Flares and 40mm Chalk Rounds as Explosives, Begins Confiscation

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The ATF is on a bit of a hit streak when it comes to random reclassifications. First they arbitrarily and capriciously changed their collective mind on the pistol stabilizing brace. Then they tried to...

BATFE Is Indeed Denying SBR Form 1s for WA Residents

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Three months and one week after e-filing my Form 1 to turn that Lancer L15 into a short barreled rifle, I finally received the expected disapproval notice from the ATF (Nick gave us the...