DOGE staffers have been working on changes at the ATF that would roll back dozens of gun restrictions. The DOJ wants to ...

The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency has sent staff to the agency that enforces federal gun laws with the goal of ...

The Trump administration is moving to roll back dozens of federal gun regulations by July 4 as part of a broader effort to ...

The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the goal of revising or eliminating dozens of rules and gun ... a major win for pro-gun advocacy ...

The next target on the list for the Department of Government Efficiency is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...

The “Faces of Gun Violence” memorial was installed at ATF in 2024 to remind the workforce of the human toll.

Why It Matters The ATF expanded the Gun Control Act of 1968 to cover weapon-parts kits in 2022. Gun manufacturers and other parties challenged the rule in court.

The ATF's rule requires unfinished parts of a firearm, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun, to be treated like a completed firearm. These parts need to be licensed and must ...

The report found gun trace requests from law enforcement agencies spiked from 338,000 in 2017 to more 460,000 in 2021 — a 36% increase. See chart below.

In striking down the rule, the Supreme Court's six-justice conservative majority ruled the ATF exceeded its authority when it issued the ban in 2018 after a mass shooting at a music festival in ...

The ATF classifies the kits as firearms under the 1968 Gun Control Act, but kit manufacturers and sellers challenged the rule in court, asserting that the ATF had exceeded its authority.