BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives issued an open letter today to gun shops and other licensed gun dealers nationwide encouraging them to help private ...

A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its gun background check rule in the Lone Star State on Sunday evening, one day before the national measure took ...

ALABAMA (WKRG)- Guns are in the hands of dangerous felons and a report says some Alabama sheriff’s played a part in putting them there. The ATF, (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives), ...

The Justice Department finalized a new rule that would close the so-called “gun show loophole” by requiring anyone who sells firearms to run federal background checks. Under the new rule, people who ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is encouraging licensed gun dealers to help private gun sellers run federal background checks. In an open letter to the ...

The only exception to federal background check law is the sale or transfer of guns between private individuals, if it's an occasional sale from one's private collection. Spencer Platt / Getty Images ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is once again in a legal battle with the federal government. This time the issue is over requiring background checks for private-owner gun sales. Earlier this spring ...

Top Democrats are quietly moving to lock down support for President Joe Biden's imperiled nominee to head a key agency overseeing firearms -- while also struggling to find consensus on a slimmed-down ...

CLAIM: An update to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ background check policy allows people in the U.S. illegally to purchase firearms. THE FACTS: No such update has been made.

A federal judge temporarily blocked a background check rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Sunday night. The rule would dramatically expand the definition of ...