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ATF Issues Conflicting Statements About Intimidating Warrantless Gun Owner Investigations, Calls Tactics ‘Entirely Appropriate’

By Lee Williams ATF’s severely underworked public information officers are flustered. A story we first published Monday about a surprise firearm inspection at a Delaware man’s home has gone viral, exposing their agents’ misdeeds and…



Dettelbach’s Confirmation Will Hasten the Neutering of the ATF

With last week’s confirmation of Steve Dettelbach to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, gun control advocates and other nanny-staters are celebrating the agency’s first confirmed director since 2015. But what most…


Guns for Beginners: Is it a ‘Silencer’ or a ‘Suppressor?’

  A favorite topic among YouTube trolls and pedants everywhere is whether that can on the end of one’s barrel — you know, the one that quiets the report of the gunshot — is called…


Anatomy of an FBI ‘Terrorism’ Sting: Convicting a Former 911 Operator of a National Firearms Act Felony

By Lee Williams By all accounts, Yunis Isaac Mejia was a good guy – certainly not the type of man who should be spending his next two birthdays behind the wire in a federal prison. …


Why the Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Has Politicians and Gun Control Advocates Worried

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the authority for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to write their own rules without clear congressional authorization that Congress intended to delegate to the EPA could also…


Gun Owners of America Sues ATF to Block New Definition of Frame or Receiver Rule

John Crump at Ammoland reports that Gun Owners of America (GOA), Bridge City Ordinance, and North Dakota resident Eliezer Jimenez have sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over its new rule…