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In 1968, with the passage of the Gun Control Act, the agency changed its name again, this time to the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the IRS and first began to be referred to by the initials "ATF". In Title XI of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Congress enacted the Explosives Control Act, 18 U.S.C.A. Chapter 40, which ...
The ATF had planned their raid for Monday, March 1, 1993, with the code name "Showtime". [55] The ATF later claimed that the raid was moved up a day, to February 28, 1993, in response to the Waco Tribune-Herald ' s "The Sinful Messiah" series of articles (which the ATF had tried to prevent from being published). [44]
The federal firearms license was established to and implement the Gun Control Act of 1968.The 1968 act was an update or revision of the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 (FFA), which required all manufacturers and dealers of firearms who ship or receive firearms or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce to have a license, and forbade them from transferring any firearm or most ammunition to ...
This series on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and firearms regulation is part of that work. Today’s installment explains what the ATF doesn’t do.
The National Tracing Center (NTC) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is the sole firearms tracing facility in the United States. It provides information to provide foreign (international), federal, state and local law enforcement agencies with suspects for firearm crime investigations, detect suspected firearms traffickers, and track the intrastate, interstate and ...
Current members of the ATF National Response Team began conducting an initial assessment in Los Angeles on Monday and will be taking the lead role in investigating the Palisades Fire, which has ...
The policy resulted in the ATF revoking more gun store licenses in 2024 than in any year over at least the past two decades. Biden also ordered the ATF to issue annual reports on gun trafficking ...
Coordinated efforts to create a national background check system did not materialize until after the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in March 1981. White House press secretary James Brady was seriously wounded in the attack, and afterward his wife, Sarah Brady , spearheaded the push to pass the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention ...