The law requires agencies in Minnesota to trace crime guns. And to check an often overlooked box to share that trace ...

A bill removing short-barrel or "sawed-off" guns from the state's list of weapons that are banned without federal ...

On May 21, 2025, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced a series of policy changes initiated under the ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has settled three lawsuits involving Rare Breed Triggers, a gun parts manufacturer. The ...

We combined this with leaked records of crime guns that were seized by authorities in Mexico from 2018 to 2020 and traced back to gun dealers in the U.S. by the ATF. Read the full investigation: ...

“The ATF will continue to honor the memory of ... gun owners to up to 10 years in prison for failing to register pistol braces that make it possible for disabled veterans to use firearms ...

Purporting to improve on the statutory definition, in 2021 ATF proposed a regulation under which, using a point system of features, most pistols with braces would become rifles with barrels under ...

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 ...