A Diamond, Missouri, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing firearms following previous ...

The Senate has taken a significant step towards restoring the constitutional rights of gun owners with the inclusion of the Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles Today (SHORT) Act into President Trump’s ...

The United States is the largest consumer market for firearms in the world, and that market is largely dominated by pistols. Pistols — a specific category of handguns that excludes revolvers — ...

The proposal would cut 541 of the approximately 800 inspectors at the ATF, reducing the agency’s regulatory capacity by about ...

The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to defang and downsize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...

Texas is poised to decriminalize short-barreled shotguns and rifles, setting up a potential conflict with federal law.

Lawmakers passed a handful of bills aimed at easing access to guns as a new pediatric study links state legislation to ...

ATF changed the classification after a series ... 9-year-old children and three school staff members. Stabilizing pistol braces also were used in mass shootings in Colorado Springs and in Dayton ...

The ATF, under its Biden-appointed director ... that increased regulation of so-called stabilizing braces that make it easier to use a pistol as a long gun that is easier to aim.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has decided that ATF's Final Rule determining that most pistols with stabilizing braces are short-barreled rifles is arbitrary and capricious.

The appellants argued that, under the ATF’s new rule, 99 percent of pistols equipped with a stabilizing brace would fall under the regulations of the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act.

ATF declined to comment ... did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Pistol braces were first marketed in 2012 as a way of attaching a pistol to the shooter's forearm, stabilizing ...