During Thursday’s House Oversight Committee hearing regarding “Privacy Protections and the Second Amendment,” Rep. Summer Lee (D) suggested the ATF has been captured by the gun industry.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, May 12.
NRA executive vice president and CEO Doug Hamlin talked exclusively with Breitbart News and assured us that “the Trump administration is in lockstep with the pro-Second Amendment movement.”
President Trump’s ATF released a draft of its revised Form 4473 yesterday and an immediate change between it and the Biden-era form is the absence of a “non-binary” option when choosing sex. Form 4473 is the Firearms Transaction Record used
Breitbart News was at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) when Robert Cekada was sworn in Monday, and he sat down with us afterward to talk about growing up hunting with his dad, owning numerous AR-15s, and valuing the importance of an armed citizenry.
Breitbart News noted that ATF Director Robert Cekada signed a rulemaking package Wednesday afternoon and it contained a “clarifying amendment” that would require would-be gun buyers to select their biological sex on Form 4473.
Robert Cekada was confirmed as ATF Director Wednesday afternoon and began his tenure by rolling back and/or revising Biden-era gun regs.
Acting AG Todd Blanche presided over the signing of a “landmark rulemaking package” that rolls back numerous gun regulations enacted under Biden.
The DOJ is holding a signing ceremony in which Acting AG Todd Blanche “will preside over the signing” of a rulemaking package from the ATF.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R) is leading a coalition of GOP House members urging President Donald Trump to pick an Attorney-General who will “immediately” wipe away Biden-era ATF gun controls.
During Wednesday testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Gun Owners of America’s senior vice president, Erich Pratt, warned that Congress must do away with Biden-era gun controls if they want to get the gun vote this November.
Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal seeks to end numerous gun controls implemented by ATF during Joe Biden’s term in office.
Rep. Burlison used an X post to criticize the ATF’s enforcement of the pistol brace rule and doubled down on calls to abolish the agency.
Rep. Brad Knott (R-NC) and former ATF official Richard Marianos are rebuking the China-linked Vapor Technology Association, which sought backing from the Trump administration, after a New York probe tied one of its board members to over 28,000 pounds of illicit vapes worth more than $2.5 million.
During Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, ATF director nominee Robert Cekada stressed, “The ATF’s mission is not to burden lawful gun owners.”
Breitbart News talked with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche about the DOJ’s fight to roll back restrictions on the Second Amendment.
Rep. Eric Burlison (R) is beginning 2026 right where he spent 2025, namely, pushing for the end of the ATF’s registration schemes and for the abolition of the agency itself.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) and more than 40 members of the House and Senate sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday, asking her to adopt Congress’s position and intent “regarding ongoing litigation challenging the National Firearms Act’s (NFA)
Federal agents in San Antonio shut down a bomb‑making lab Friday, arresting career criminal Dustin Jay Ammons, who authorities say used homemade pipe bombs to blast open ATM machines in a string of violent bank robberies.
Congress received on Tuesday President Trump’s nomination of Robert Cekada to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Corey L. Maze “permanently [blocked] federal authorities from enforcing multiple provisions of the ATF’s [‘engaged in the business’ rule],” according to Rocket City Now.
During a Sunday night press conference, Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye indicated two more bodies had been discovered in the burned church, bringing the total number of deaths to four.
While speaking with ABC News for a report aired on Tuesday’s “World News Tonight,” ATF Chicago Field Division Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Maniff said that in the joint operations they’re doing with ICE, they’re going after suspected TDA members
Question 14 of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) firearm transfer form 4473 was changed from exclusively “male” or female” during the Biden Administration, giving gun buyers the third option of “non-binary.”
ATF gun recovery and trace data from 2023 for Illinois shows that Illinois is the state of origin from which the majority of guns are recovered/traced.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced the arrest of 78 criminal aliens during a 3-day “Operation Pick-Off” in the Texas border region. Federal agents collaborated with state and local law enforcement to conduct the roundup.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested an illegal immigrant working as a police officer in Maine after he allegedly tried to unlawfully purchase a firearm, officials announced on Monday.
President Trump’s DOJ posted a proposed rule in the federal registry designed to guide the AG in restoring gun rights to those who lost them.
The pistol brace rule instituted by the ATF was vacated on July 17, 2025, after President Trump’s DOJ agreed to dismiss the lawsuit launched under the Biden administration.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials and the FBI teamed up to create a Homeland Security Task Force in Houston to combat the “emerging threats from transnational criminal organizations in Southeast Texas.” The announcement follows the arrest in June of nearly 1,400 criminal aliens in the Houston area.
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced lawmakers Monday in her first congressional appearance since her January confirmation, pitching the Justice Department’s 2026 budget to House appropriators.
Federal and Texas law enforcement officials arrested 76 people and seized hundreds of guns and 22 kilos of drugs during a two month operation targeting violent crime in the Fort Worth area. Included in the arrest were identified as illegal aliens, including suspected Tren de Aragua gang members.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is limiting the ATF’s ability to harass Federal Firearm License holders (FFLs) by cutting the number of ATF inspectors by two-thirds.
Sixteen Democrat Attorneys General announced the filing of a lawsuit Monday to block the ATF from complying with the Trump administration and returning Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) to their rightful owners.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R) are introducing legislation today to protect Federal Firearm License holders (FFLs) from being antagonized and shut down by a weaponized ATF.
President Trump’s ATF reversed a Biden-era policy Friday by announcing an end to automatic revocation of Federal Firearms Licenses.
CLAIM: In a May 16, 2025, article, NBC News claimed, “Machine guns have been illegal in the United States since 1986.”
Rep. Eric Burlison (R) continues his push to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, saying it is time to “return power to the people.”
President Donald Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget would cut $486 million in funding from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), according to the New York Times.
Rep. Eric Burlison (R) continues his push to do away with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), noting Monday there is nothing “radical” about abolishing the federal agency.
