A federal court in Oklahoma awarded $4.7 million in damages to a woman who spent months incarcerated on federal drug charges before being found “actually innocent.” A special agent of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives completed a false police report describing a methamphetamine sale that never occurred.
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A gun rights lobbyist group argued before the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday that rapid-fire gun attachments known as bump stocks should not be included in the government’s definition of machine gun.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told lawmakers Wednesday he would not back any additional regulations on guns if he were confirmed to the position.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Monday upheld the Trump administration’s ban on rapid-fire gun attachments known as bump stocks, which were used to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas nearly two years ago.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Thursday again rejected a gun rights group’s attempt to temporarily block the Trump administration’s ban on rapid-fire gun attachments known as bump stocks, which went into effect this week.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit ruled Thursday that one Salt Lake City man will be able to keep his bump stock when the Trump administration’s ban on the rapid-fire gun attachments goes into effect next week.
Read moreA federal judge has upheld the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun attachment that was used in the 2017 slaughter of 58 Las Vegas concertgoers, which left nearly 900 injured.
Read moreThe Trump administration unveiled a rule change Tuesday that paves the way for an all-out ban by March 2019 of bump-stock devices: firearm attachments that make it possible to fire semiautomatic weapons fire as rapidly as any fully automatic firearm.
Read moreFederal officials offered a $20,000 reward Thursday for information on the recent theft of 704 pounds of dynamite from a Pennsylvania construction site.
Read moreA federal agent’s affidavit unsealed Monday describes how law enforcement identified Mark Anthony Conditt as the suspect in a string of bombings around Austin, Texas, last month that left two people dead and five injured.
Read moreA federal judge said Monday that fictitious stash houses used to ensnare would-be criminals should be “relegated to the dark corridors of our past,” but stopped short of issuing a ruling that could have curtailed their use.
Read moreFederal officials are investigating the bombing of an Air Force recruiting office in suburban Tulsa on Monday night as either domestic terrorism or a prank.
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Sending a record-keeping challenge over cigarette sales up in smoke, a federal judge refused to let a Nebraska-based tribe duck a law that curbs tobacco trafficking.
Read moreThe New York Times sued the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for documents in a tobacco-smuggling scandal involving a secret ATF bank account.
Read moreLooking past the no-shows whose absence riled up House Republicans at a hearing about the death of a federal agent in Mexico, Democrats argued Thursday that the crux of the tragedy lies with budget cuts and deregulation.
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