During Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, ATF director nominee Robert Cekada stressed, “The ATF’s mission is not to burden lawful gun owners.”
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.
Federal agents in Tulsa charged a Mexican national illegally residing in the U.S. and his Houston-based son with trafficking more than 75 firearms and bulk ammunition purchased at local gun shows, following a multi-agency investigation by ICE, ATF, and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that federal agents had carried out nationwide raids to seize Chinese-made vape products, warning that such operations mark the beginning of a broader crackdown.
State and federal law enforcement agencies teamed up on Sunday to carry out targeted immigration enforcement operations in cities across the state. A federal official characterized the actions as in the interest of public safety and national security.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) has introduced legislation to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
The ATF is being ridiculed on social media for using an X post on Christmas Day to wish everyone “Happy Holidays.”
Canadian and American officials announced the arrest of six suspects in a $16 million robbery that stands as Canada’s largest gold heist.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) introduced legislation Wednesday to block funding for the ATF’s proposed universal background check rule.
Rep. Matt Gaetz is blasting Joe Biden’s ATF for allegedly retaliating against an FFL who is also a Congressional witness.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Border Patrol agents seized guns, ammunition, and cash being smuggled toward Mexico.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey told Breitbart News Saturday that President Joe Biden’s pistol brace regulation serves as the latest attempt to criminalize Americans.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) alleged Tuesday the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) illegally overpaid millions to agents in non-law enforcement roles.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) noted during Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF’s) issuance of the pistol brace rule highlights the danger of bureaucrats making law.
A Texas man awaits sentencing after federal jurors found him guilty of making explosive devices in his home.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday, sounding the alarm over whether the Biden administration is harassing or coercing firearm owners into legally dubious investigations, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.
The White House on Monday previewed President Joe Biden’s annual 2023 budget, which includes a request for spending on police departments.
More than 50 Republican House members are warning the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, (ATF) may be quietly working behind the scenes to put a national gun registry in place.
President Biden’s withdrawing of David Chipman’s ATF nomination is imminent and it is helpful to understand the numerous controversies, at least six, that brought Chipman’s plight to this point.
Republicans on Thursday celebrated defeating President Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) nominee David Chipman, Fox News confirmed.
A report from The Reload notes that seven former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), agents are urging the Senate not to confirm David Chipman to the position of ATF director.
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) nominee David Chipman is a “direct threat” to Americans’ security and right to bear arms.
Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, a 23-year-old Minnesota man, has been sentenced to four years in prison after he helped set fire to a Minneapolis police station following George Floyd’s death, according to prosecutors.
Every law-abiding gun owner should oppose the nomination of devoted gun grabber David Chipman to lead the agency overseeing firearms sales.
As local officials in Portland say they won’t prosecute dozens of people charged with riot-related crimes, feds are taking over some cases.
A federal judge in South Texas sentenced two men to federal prison for selling guns to an undercover investigator. The undercover agent told the men the money for the guns, including machine guns, came from Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the San Diego Sector seized more than 53,000 gun parts being smuggled from China. The incident occurred at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents responded to a call from police officers at the Laredo International Airport after they arrested a Canadian national for allegedly attempting to enter the secured area with a handgun. The Canadian man’s immigration visa is reportedly expired.
Alleged drug dealers shot an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) on Thursday in what was described as an ambush during a drug buy operation conducted in the Chicago area. The gunmen shot the agent twice. Agents returned fire, killing one.
Chicago police are recruiting federal agents to help them fight the record-high number of violent carjackings that have plagued the city.
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.
A group of 80 defendants were charged in a case with members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood.
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.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives smuggled tens of millions of dollars from cigarette sales into a secret bank account in an operation not authorized by the Justice Department.
Burger stand owner Brian Sawyers was sentenced to another 15 years after the three-time felon and convicted drug trafficker was caught selling cocaine to a confidential informant out of his Los Angeles food stand in 2012.
McALLEN, Texas — Federal authorities have arrested five Texas men and one Mexican national for their alleged roles in the manufacturing of grenades destined for Mexican drug cartels.
In a November 4 column on post-election gun control, Newsweek explained that if Hillary Clinton wins, she can use the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to bypass Congress for new restrictions on guns.
Police arrested a fugitive disguised as an elderly man after he had been on the run for several months in Massachusetts.
Federal officials investigating the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, have called the fire “a criminal act.” The announcement came during a Wednesday afternoon press conference by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) not far from the explosion scene.
A father and son were arrested early Tuesday morning in Houston on drug trafficking charges. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) raided the home in northwest Harris County as part of a search warrant execution.
