DOJ has formally confirmed it will not appeal the Silencer Shop NFA ruling. The permanent injunction protects covered gun owners and businesses, while nine plaintiff states seek clarity on its reach and ATF prepares guidance.
ATF calls FFL Direct a convenience for gun dealers. The program automates serial-number trace responses that can send purchaser information to Washington while the bound book stays with the dealer. Congress must confront the backdoor registry infrastructure before an anti-gun administration explo...
Qilin breached a separate ATF system, but the bureau’s massive archive of lawful gun purchases remains a threat to gun-owner privacy. Congress should force a full accounting, end informal record collection, limit retention, and change the law that feeds the archive—before a future administrat...
ATF Director Cekada says suppressor and SBR transfer guidance under the NFA injunction is close and could be released within weeks. Read the original story: ATF Director Says Suppressor and SBR Transfer Guidance Could Land Within Weeks, and Dealers Moving Cans on a 4473 Will Not Be Cited
Atrius says DOJ and ATF are using Rare Breed’s patent lawsuits to restrict forced reset technology while the agency refuses to identify which products it considers machine guns.
Roughly 30 to 35 million white-tailed deer live on the North American landscape today. That figure comes from the National Deer Association, which surveyed state and provincial wildlife agencies across the continent to build its estimate, and it lines up with independent research putting the curr...
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office has called a road rage shooting justified, FOX 8 reports from Metairie. Here is what is known so far. Read the original story: Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Calls Metairie Road Rage Shooting Justified
ATF says restricting competing forced reset triggers through Rare Breed’s private patent lawsuits would advance the agency’s public-safety interests.
A ransomware group has taken credit for breaching the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but the specifics of what happened remain thin. The Qilin gang listed the ATF on its dark-web leak site Wednesday, and the agency later confirmed it was investigating a cybersecurity inciden...
ATF confirmed that hackers compromised a standalone computer system after the Qilin ransomware operation claimed the agency as a victim. Sources tell AmmoLand that gun-owner records were not exposed, but the bureau has not revealed whether other files were stolen.