In 1986, Congress passed a ban on the ATF ever having a so-called federal gun registry or any kind of electronic database of firearms. An estimated 98,000 firearms were bought in Florida this February ...

A worker photographs gun-sales records at the ATF's National Tracing Center in Martinsburg, W. Va. ATF employees go through a tedious process of sorting, stacking, cataloging and deciphering boxes ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Gunmaker, Smith & Wesson says they’ve suspended several employees at their Springfield plant after the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) notified them that the ...

If the ATF gets its way, new gun owners will have to identify their ethnicity on firearm records. But lawmakers in the House have introduced a bill to eliminate that controversial requirement, The ...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives has a program called the Demand Letter 2 program, commonly referred to as the DL2. The DL2 program includes dealers who sold a significant number ...