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The ATF is investigating after “school teacher and Democrat” Karen Mallard posted a video online which showed her cutting up an AR-15. 

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) indicated that the he wants to ban over 200 different rifles in response to last week’s Florida school shooting.

Actor and social commentator Ben Stein criticized AR-15s as firearms that enable nerds to go into a gun shop and walk out feeling like Rambo.

Sen. Bill Nelson says AR-15s are “not for hunting,” but ATF Associate Deputy Dir. Ronald Turk says ARs are “standard for hunting activities.”

A handful of cities and states have adopted bump-stock gun control in the months after the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas attack.

Former ATF Gun Tech Chief Rick Vasquez warns that the ATF’s current push to ban bump stocks will open the door to other bans.

Bloomberg is using ATF reports on gun store burglaries to call for more gun control for licensed firearm dealers.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) is taking the lead against federal gun control and warning that an ATF ban on bump stocks could quickly expand into a ban on magazines and triggers.

Six defendants pleaded guilty in a Lubbock federal court to charges of smuggling large quantities of methamphetamine. The group was indicted in November 2017.

GOA is decrying the ATF’s latest push for bump stock gun control, contending that part of the solution is to defund the ATF altogether.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is currently accepting public comment on their plans for backdoor bump stock gun control.

McALLEN, Texas — Members of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel are deploying teams to various stores in this border city area to purchase bulk quantities of ammunition for smuggling back to Mexico. It remains unclear if the reported stockpiling attempts could indicate a coming escalation in violence in across the border in Reynosa.

On Tuesday Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Dave Trott (D-MI) bucked NRA opposition and introduced gun control for bump stocks.

Slide Fire bump stocks are AR-15 accessories that make shooting fun by allowing the gun owner to increase the rate of fire without converting the firearm to a full-auto weapon.

After constituents raised concerns that Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) was not voicing a position on gun control via a bump stock ban, Breitbart News reached out to his office but received no comment.

In a letter dated October 12, the ATF Association informed lawmakers that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) approved bump stocks because they do not turn a semiautomatic rifle into “a machine gun.”

In the wake of the heinous October 1 Las Vegas attack, legislation to ban bump stocks has been introduced and a request that the ATF re-evaluate bump stocks has been made.

NRA released a statement calling on Congress to allow the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) re-evaluate bump stocks.

One can argue that bump stocks should be regulated in any case. But Obama’s miss is a reminder that people with evil intentions will always be one step ahead of the law.

While bump stocks are taking criticism, it is interesting to note that the devices were approved for sale in 2010 by Barack Obama’s ATF.

In an October 4 report, CBS News claims that Las Vegas attacker Stephen Paddock had AR-15s that fired “automatic rounds.”

An alleged gun thief is under arrest after being tracked him down via selfies in which he allegedly posed with guns from a robbery.

Houston police officers arrested a young man for allegedly attempting to plant explosives at a Confederate statue Saturday night. FBI officials confirmed the suspect is connected to the ongoing FBI search and investigation of a house near Rice University.

HOUSTON, Texas — City of Houston emergency management officials ordered the evacuation of a residential block in an upscale neighborhood where suspected bomb-making materials were found. The evacuation follows an “all night enforcement operation” carried out by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).

Federal and local law enforcement officers teamed up to execute a search warrant on a home in the upscale Rice University area Sunday evening. After obtaining a search warrant, Houston police officers, FBI agents, and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) entered a home to search for suspected bomb-making materials.

The House Appropriations Committee passed an Appropriations bill that ties ATF funding to the roll-back of certain gun regulations.

A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agent tells “Full Measure’s” Sharyl Attkisson the Obama Administration obstructed justice in the investigation into the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning program and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder. The agent says the Department of Justice and the ATF tried to cover up any link between the gunrunning scandal and Brian Terry’s death.

The FBI issued an update on the Alexandria attack saying the attacker carried two guns, both of which were purchased from FFLs.

Sampson County North Carolina Sheriff Jimmy Thornton says suppressors improve the hunting experience and make firearms training safer.

Federal agents allegedly seized approximately 60 firearms from the home of a “high-ranking Pasadena police officer.” The cache of weapons was so large that agents required two trucks to transport it.

More than 140 gang members are facing federal charges after a multi-agency operation netted dozens of arrests over the last 75 days, the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of California announced Wednesday.

The 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry by a 7-time previously deported illegal alien could have been prevented, says the agent’s brother Kent Terry in an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas. Terry’s family hopes the Trump Administration will now go after “the real criminals” responsible for putting the “Fast and Furious” guns in the accused killer’s hands.

In a brief press release posted on the U.S. Department of Education’s website, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said she has accepted an invitation from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten to visit a public school in Van Wert, Ohio.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) is warning that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare 2.o still contains measures that will allow doctors, insurance companies, and the ATF to use medical records to further a gun control agenda.

While Republicans in the House are pushing legislation to roll back the jumbled federal oversight of firearm suppressors, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) says she is ready to fight efforts to make “deadly gun silencers” easier to acquire.

Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz subpoenaed two agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to appear before his committee in connection with the Obama Administration’s gun-running program, Fast and Furious. Firearms from the former president’s scheme were allegedly involved in the 2011 murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico.