The federal government has stepped up its scrutiny of stores that sell guns used in crimes, with the number singled out more than doubling in the past four years. Which stores sell the most crime guns ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Six Greater Akron gun shops are on a 2023 list of 1,300 stores nationwide that each sold at least 25 guns traced to crimes during a single year. All of those guns were purchased at those stores within ...

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 ...

Smith & Wesson suspended some Springfield employees … Video / May 9, 2024 / 05:38 PM EDT Gunmaker, Smith & Wesson says they’ve suspended several employees at their Springfield plant after the Bureau ...