Jo Lee Ferguson is on leave, but Answer Line will return in the future. This Answer Line originally was published in October 2019. QUESTION: I keep reading stories about federal background checks to ...

and Explosives show that certain types of firearms are far more likely to be used to commit crimes than others. Using 2023 ATF firearm tracing data, 24/7 Wall St. identified the firearm calibers ...

Your device does not support the audio. COLLINSVILLE – A Collinsville man faces criminal charges in the latest case of defacing firearm identification marks filed in Madison County this year.

In 2022, the ATF issued a rule effectively reinterpreting the federal legal definition of the word “firearm” to include most ghost gun kits. To sell the kits, retailers would need to apply for ...

C. - Steve Dettelbach announced Tuesday that he’s heading back to his former law-firm, BakerHostetler, after stepping down as Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF ...

Because of this, a new report, published in March 2024 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), notes law enforcements ability to properly identify PMs still remains ...

Firearms and Explosives quietly softened its zero-tolerance policy toward lawbreaking gun dealers last year — after a wave of gun shop owners complained that the agency was shutting them down for ...

A$AP Rocky rejected a final plea deal offer on the first day of his firearm assault trial in Los Angeles Tuesday. He also sat quietly as his lawyer said for the first ...

Da Rocha, who is charged with possession of a firearm without a firearm identification card, possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card, and possession of a Class B drug ...

The Biden administration has reversed a much-criticized policy that required inspectors to revoke the federal firearms sales licenses for gun shops over certain paperwork errors or anomalies as ...

Most notably during Dettelbach’s tenure, ATF set the specific rules for the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, requiring anyone who sells a firearm through mail order or at flea markets ...

The ATF rule expanded the category of people defined as "engaged in the business" of dealing firearms. It meant that an estimated 26,000 to 95,500 dealers would be required to get federally ...