Democrat President Joe Biden on Thursday nominated David Chipman, a former agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to head that agency, while also announcing what an administration fact sheet described as “six initial actions” on gun control. CNN is describing this as Biden’s “first, limited actions on gun control,” but grassroots […]
Second Amendment Foundation Sues ATF over Arm Braces
The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) alleging violations of the Administrative Procedures Act over what the gun rights organization calls ATF’s “flip-flop regulation of arm braces on semiautomatic pistols.” An arm brace is a commonly-used accessory—more than 2 million are now […]
ATF Backs Off on Braces: Yes, America There Is a Santa Claus!
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives suddenly withdrew its notice and request for comments on the “Objective Factors for Classifying Weapons with ‘Stabilizing Braces’,” that was published Dec. 18 and had created no small amount of ill will for the holidays. The agency released the withdrawal notice Wednesday only five days after […]
ATF Will Publish Proposed Regs Change RE; ‘Stabilizing Braces’
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) on Friday will publish a proposed regulations change headlined “Objective Factors for Classifying Weapons with Stabilizer Braces,” and critics are already sounding the alarm. Fredy Reihl, editor at AmmoLand News, calls the 15-page document “a thinly veiled blueprint for the largest firearm registration–and ultimately potentially […]
Fiasco? MA Gun Owners’ Rights Collide with Fed. Law
The Boston Globe is reporting that Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration “is resisting a mounting number of court orders from judges charging that it overstepped its legal authority, or misinterpreted the law, when it pushed to strip firearm licenses from hundreds of people it previously cleared to own a gun.” The newspaper said […]
House Committee Releases ‘Scathing’ Fast and Furious Report
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday released a report alleging a Justice Department cover-up of Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration “gun walking” scandal, which came to a crashing halt with the slaying of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. The report, prepared for Congressman Jason Chaffetz, now chair […]