Biden has faced increasing pressure to act on gun control after a spate of mass shootings across the U.S. in recent weeks, but the White House has repeatedly emphasized the need for legislative action on guns. While the House passed a background-check bill last month, gun control measures ...
The ATF stated it will make its decision as to whether a firearm should be ruled as an SBR on a “case-by-case” basis, depending on the configuration of the gun. Previously, the ATF usedWorksheet 4999in its determinations. However, in this case the ATF did not offer a Worksheet 4999,...
Gun Control Advocates Lose Another Round with Departure of ATF ChiefThe federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives(ATF) has never been a favorite...Knickerbocker, Brad
For FY2003-FY2006, riders on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) appropriations have prohibited that agency from disclosing firearm trace data (based on firearm transfer records maintained in part by licensed gun dealers) and multiple handgun sales reports data for any ...
The president has already announced several executive actions on gun control, including cracking down on "ghost guns," homemade firearms that lack serial numbers used to trace them and that are often purchased without a background check. But he is limited without Congress. ...
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service was formed in 1952, keeping their focus on taxes. In 1968, the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act and the Gun Control Act added many responsibilities to this Division. These new duties were too unwieldy for the Inter...
Themeasure from ATF, which took effect in August 2022, updated the rules regarding the definition of a "firearm" under the Gun Control Act to address the proliferation of ghost guns, which are untraceable firearms that can be made from kits available online and assembled at home. The rule de...
Gun Control: FY2017 Appropriations for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Other InitiativesWilliam J. Krouse
"Drilling a hole or two I would think doesn't give the same sort of reward that you get from working on your car on the weekends," he said. Justice Brett Kavanaugh told Prelogar that her interpretation of the Gun Control Act "has force," but he sought assurances that a kit seller wh...
Federal agents should have just looked up the murder weapon’s owner on the national gun registry—except no such registry exists. Instead, it took some determined ATF agents. Michael Daly | Published Jul 06, 2022 GOP Senators Are Concerned We Have Too Much Gun ControlMISSING THE MARK The da...