
NRA Declines Invite to Obama’s Gun Control Town Hall and ‘PR Spectacle’
On January 6, the NRA declined an invitation to attend President Obama’s CNN town hall, describing the event at a “PR spectacle orchestrated by the White House.”

On January 6, the NRA declined an invitation to attend President Obama’s CNN town hall, describing the event at a “PR spectacle orchestrated by the White House.”

The black market for homemade AR-15 rifles is surging in California. ARs are legal to build at home, but “it is a felony to sell or trade such a weapon.” The market for the illegal sales and trades of these guns has become front and center in California.

Insisting that no “hate crime” is suspected, police in St. Louis arrested an African-American man for a series of arson attacks on African-American churches perpetrated earlier this month.

On October 30, the New York Times reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) is joining the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence’s push to hold gun sellers liable for the misuse of guns.

On October 21, the Washington Post reported their estimate that the number of guns owned in America has doubled in the last 20 years.

Like the bumper sticker says, a gun’s only serious enemies are rust and politicians. At least rust has principles. Of course, nothing inspires shameless partisan ambition in politicians like an awful human tragedy. So, in a spasm of deceitful grandstanding,

A Texas man has been charged in an ongoing Mexican cartel effort to buy guns in the U.S. The man is charged with having personally purchased at least 38 weapons for the cartel. Agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives recently arrested 31-year-old Carlos Alberto Zamudio on straw purchasing charges. Straw purchasing refers to the practice of U.S citizens with a clean background purchasing weapons for people who are not able to such as convicted felons, foreign nationals, and, along the Texas border, Mexican drug cartels.

Democrat president hopeful Hillary Clinton has made it crystal clear that she is coming after guns if elected, and now she wants her supporters to know she will be coming after gun stores as well, if given the chance.

Late Saturday night, Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials and others involved in the Phoenix freeway shootings investigation revealed that suspect Leslie Allen Merritt Jr. was discovered and apprehended by using bullet fragments from the first four freeway shootings.

On August 28, the NRA presented ATF and FBI data showing Americans have purchased “170 million new guns” since 1991, and violent crime has fallen “51 percent.”

On August 26 Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) spokesman Thomas Faison confirmed that Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan bought his gun “weeks ago” and that “he apparently passed a background check” to get the gun.

In the wake of an unprecented murder spike, the Baltimore police announced Sunday that ten federal agents from a variety of agencies plus another twenty agents from the ATF will he embedded with the homicide unit “effective tomorrow.”

With the latest news that the deadly scandal may be connected to more carnage inside the United States—specifically the Garland, Texas terrorist attack earlier this year—Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus is calling on the president to be transparent once and for all with regards to Fast and Furious.

In an unprecedented move, the ATF is joining with the New York Police Department to fight the crime wave that gun control has failed to halt.

The Obama administration’s Spring 2015 “Unified Agenda”–published May 22–shows that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) are pushing a number of new gun control rules for implementation by executive fiat.

Bloomberg.com has added its voices to the chorus of those calling for the elimination of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), stating it should be “put … out of its misery.”

On May 19 the Center for American Progress (CAP) joined GOP calls to do away with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the shuffle the agency’s current responsibilities to other federal agencies.

Two leading figures with Los Zetas are set to spend their life in prison for their role in smuggling thousands of pounds of marijuana into the U.S. and for sending weapons and ammunition into Mexico.

Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) has sent a letter to acting ATF director Thomas Brandon contending that a broad look at all firearm-related law enforcement deaths justifies the issuance of an AR-15 ammunition ban.

On Monday, Reps. Diane Black (R-Tenn-6) and Ted Poe (R-TX-2) introduced a bill to end the ATF’s practice of trying to ascertain the race of firearm purchasers via background checks.

Williamson County Court at Law #2 Judge Timothy L. Wright III found himself on the wrong end of a nine count federal indictment. He has been charged with allegedly selling guns to a known felon, helping export those guns, and they lying on the paperwork and to a federal agent about the entire affair. The Judge spent a night in jail earlier this week and is now out.

A raging blaze ripped through the top floors of a six-story commercial office building in Los Angeles’s Westlake District on Monday evening. Two people were reportedly rescued from the fire and one of them is being treated for non life-threatening injuries.

Fresno Deputy Police Chief Keith Foster was arrested Thursday, along with six others, on federal drug charges, after a year-long joint investigation by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

Agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have admitted to attending “sex parties” with prostitutes that were hired by drug cartels while on assignment in Columbia. The admission came during an investigation by the Department of Justice that began after a 2012 prostitution scandal in Columbia was uncovered that involved agents of the United States Secret Service.

ATF director B. Todd Jones is stepping down amid the backlash surrounding the agency’s proposed AR-15 bullet ban.