BREAKING: Lawsuit Filed to Allow Registration of New Machine Guns
Filed yesterday in Dallas, the lawsuit of Hollis v. Holder is suing the U.S. Department of Justice to allow legal entities such as trusts and corporations to legally register new machine guns. As you...
NFATracker.com: NFA Wait Times Down to 30 Days In Some Cases
The folks at NFATracker.com have for years now tracked how long it takes for NFA paperwork to be approved. They remain the best source of information about the NFA Firearms Branch of the ATF (since...
New Lawsuit Aims to Overturn Post-86 Machine Gun Ban
Back in May, I first wrote about the possibility that a new ruling could open the floodgates for trusts to register new machine guns. On September 11th, that possibility became fact when the ATF...
BREAKING: Attorney General Eric Holder to Resign
http://youtu.be/L9xqkeBOhcI
"Two sources familiar with the decision tell NPR that Holder, 63, intends to leave the Justice Department as soon as his successor is confirmed, a process that could run through 2014 and even into...
TN and TX Pols Introduce Bill to Nix Ethnicity from ATF Form 4473
How long has Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and Really Big Fires) asked gun buyers to state their ethnicity? I don't know for sure, but Dan the Man reported on a change in the ATF...
WI Rep. Sensenbrenner Introduces ATF Elimination Act
In case you missed it, the ATF got caught running one of the most inept and corrupt "stings" in the agency's long history of inept and corrupt "stings." That would be "Operation Fearless" in...
Growing Pains at ATF’s NFA Branch
I'm no fan of government regulation, but sometimes it serves a purpose and sometimes it's an inadvertent subsidy to the manufacturers of over the counter migraine medication. This morning I got yet another ATF...
ATF Just Approved the First New Civilian Machine Gun in 28 Years. By Accident.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s9GKoxnGcM
A couple months back I talked about an ATF ruling that may have made it possible for those with a gun trust to legally manufacture machine guns. The key element is that since the...
Ares Armor Wins Round One in Battle With ATF Over 80% Lower Sales Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gsmlJSpWvk
If you'll remember, despite a restraining order to prevent it, the ATF executed a search warrant on San Diego gun parts retailer Ares Armor in March during which their computers and sales records were...
ATF NFA Branch Catching Up Slowly. Very Slowly.
Our friends at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave a regulatory update at last week's 13th Annual Firearms Import/Export Conference. Among the tidbits they dropped were a few more non-surprising data points indicating...
ATF Helps Red Jacket Firearms Find Their Machine Guns
Red Jacket Firearms becoming entangled with the ATF is something that has definitely been done befo'. The Haydens apparently aren't really detail people. At least not when it comes to record keeping and following all of the ATF's...
Judge Orders DOJ to Release Fast and Furious Docs
"Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit pursued against the Department of Justice by government watchdog Judicial Watch, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled documents being withheld from...