Showing posts with label ATF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ATF. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Trump Administration Erases School Shooting Victims at ATF Headquarters – Mother Jones

"…Since resuming office, Trump shut down the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and set the stage to undo years of progress on reducing gun violence, as my colleague Mark Follman wrote. Trump then directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to "examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions of executive departments and agencies" from Biden's term to assess whether they "infringe on the Second Amendment rights" of Americans. .."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-administration-erases-school-shooting-victims-at-atf-headquarters/ 


 

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Kash Patel loses ATF gig as Trump kills gun safety measures

Bondi also intends to roll back Biden-era checks on people who use stabilizing braces to turn pistols into rifles and a regulation that made gun sellers adhere to stringent licensing and background check requirements. 

Biden signed the first major federal gun safety bill in decades in the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Meanwhile, Trump, who opposes gun safety regulations and laws, has been bankrolled by the far-right, scandal-plagued National Rifle Association for years...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/9/2315569/-FBI-director-loses-ATF-gig-as-Trump-kills-gun-safety-measures 


 

Friday, April 5, 2024

Under Half of Illegal Gun Cases Tracked by A.T.F. Were Involved in Black Market Sales - The New York Times

The White House is likely to use the new data to muster support for regulations closing a loophole that has allowed kitchen-table dealers, gun-show vendors and online sellers to avoid background checks required of 80,000 federally licensed dealers by claiming they are not primarily "engaged in the business" of firearms sales...

Thursday, December 29, 2022

New Biden administration guidance closes ‘ghost guns’ loophole in federal rule | The Hill

"Today's open letter is another important step in implementing the crucial public safety rule regarding privately made firearms, or Ghost Guns," ATF Director Steven Dettelbach said in an ATF news release. "Ghost Guns can kill like other firearms if they are in the wrong hands, so they are treated as firearms under the law." … 

Congress passed major gun legislation in 2022 as well. In June, President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which expanded background checks for people under 21, addressed the "boyfriend loophole" with a provision barring firearm possession for at least five years for those convicted of misdemeanor violent crimes against romantic partners and included funding for mental health treatment and the administration of red flag laws…


Monday, August 12, 2019

ATF under fresh Hill scrutiny in the wake of mass shootings - NBC News

A new House inquiry has been welcomed by gun rights activists who have been raising questions about the ATF's ability to do its job amid congressional restrictions that have hamstrung the agency.....
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/atf-under-fresh-hill-scrutiny-wake-mass-shootings-n1041026


Monday, June 11, 2018

The ATF isn't shutting down crooked gun dealers, and once again it's Congress that made it happen - Daily Kos

Opponents of new gun laws incessantly go on about how the current rash of gun violence could be solved if we better enforced the existing laws. It's curious, then, that the top officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seem to be going out of their way to ignore lawbreaking by gun dealers.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1769867







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