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Congress Demands Answers From ATF Over Backdoor Gun Registry

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 16, 2026 41 Comments

"We, the undersigned members of Congress, have waited patiently to know how many records ATF is currently maintaining in its illegal, digital, searchable gun registry, also known as the Out-of-Business Records Imaging System (OBRIS)."...

Feds Investigating Attack on Republican Party of New Mexico’s Building as Arson

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 31, 2025 19 Comments

The fire destroyed the entryway and someone tagged the building with "ICE = KKK."...

Feds, Virginia Police Arrest Top MS-13 Leader

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 27, 2025 15 Comments

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin stressed that everyone must "recognize that Virginia is not a sanctuary state."...

Suspected Leaks Led to Empty Apartments During ICE Colorado Raid

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 06, 2025 18 Comments

Border Czar Tom Homan: "We've already identified how this operation got leaked. I'll deal with that today."...

Texas Judge Issues Temporarily Restraining Order Against DOJ Rule Expanding Gun Background Checks

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 20, 2024 12 Comments

However, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Utah failed to meet the standards to receive the temporary restraining order....

Biden Goes After ‘Ghost Guns,’ Nominates New ATF Director

Posted by Mary Chastain on April 11, 2022 58 Comments

How about the ATF and DOJ get back all those guns lost during Operation Fast & Furious?...

ATF: Give Your Ex a ‘Valentine’s Day to Remember’ By Reporting Their ‘Illegal Gun Activity’

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 14, 2022 22 Comments

If the ATF is serious then start with Eric Holder. He has not been held responsible for Operation Fast & Furious and other gun-running schemes to Mexican drug cartels....

Report: White House Plans to Withdraw David Chipman’s Nomination as ATF Head

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 09, 2021 17 Comments

Good. A man with extreme gun control views should not be in charge of the ATF....

Former ATF Agents Oppose Biden’s Nominee to Lead Bureau

Posted by Mike LaChance on August 04, 2021 13 Comments

As we noted in May, Biden's pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, David Chipman, has some crazy ideas about guns and other things. Now some of his former colleagues are speaking out, and their message is clear. Pick someone else.

Biden’s Pick to Head ATF Wants to Ban AR-15s

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 27, 2021 45 Comments

Biden has made some awful appointments, but none so far have been as dangerously outside the mainstream as David Chipman. Biden wants him to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Chipman openly admitted in a hearing on Wednesday that he wants to ban the AR-15, the most popular rifle in America today.

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