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Latest Drop in U.S. Murder Rate Will Confound Critics of Self-Defense Laws
From NRA-ILA: Giving a positive character to the old expression, “same old stuff,” this week the FBI preliminarily reported that violent crime has dropped yet again – for the 18th time in the last 20...
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NSSF Matches ATF Reward in NY, SC Firearms Theft Cases
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms industry, is once again offering its resources in conjunction with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
View ArticleCostas Doubles Down on Anti-Gun Statements
By now, pretty much everyone has seen (or at least heard about) Bob Costas’ NFL Sunday Night Football gun control diatribe spouted as two families and countless friends mourned the murder/suicide...
View ArticleNSSF Video: Gun Crimes Plummet Even as Gun Sales Rise
A majority of Americans say they think gun crime has increased over the past 20 years, even though it has actually fallen dramatically, a recent Pew Research Center survey shows. Sources: DOJ, ATF...
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ATF Releases US Firearms Trace Data for 2013
Following the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives recently released 2013 international firearms trace data, the ATF last week released aggregated firearms trace data for all US states...
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Americans Say ‘Gun Violence’ is Criminal Justice, Not Public Health Issue
NEWTOWN, Conn. — More than eight out of ten Americans say that the misuse of guns in violent crimes is a matter for the criminal justice system, not a public health issue, and that the Centers for...
View ArticleNewtown Families Sue Bushmaster Over Rifle Used In Sandy Hook Shooting
As noted on the GunLink Forums last week, families of victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy had filed wrongful death notices over the the December 2012 killings by Adam Lanza in Newtown, CT. This was...
View ArticleMulti-Agency Gang (MAG) Unit Investigation Leads to Federal Indictment of FnD...
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr., announced the recent unsealing of a superseding indictment charging members of the Frenchmen/Derbigny gang, or “FnD,” with violating...
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Man Who Stole 111 Firearms from Smith & Wesson Factory Sentenced to More Than...
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that Elliot Perez, 30, of Bridgeport,...
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ATF Releases 2015 FFL Theft and Loss Report
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) is responsible for investigating instances where firearms are lost or stolen from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL). Part of ATF’s core...
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ATF, NSSF Coordinate to Offer Reward in Firearm Theft Cases
Guns Stolen in South Carolina and Alabama Not long after the recent release of the BATFE’s 2015 FFL Theft and Loss Report – which reported a total of nearly 15,000 lost or stolen firearms last year –...
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Gang Members Who Shot Up Mother’s Day Parade Get Life
ATF Success Story: Brothers Sentenced Three Years After 2013 Parade Violence Shootings, drugs, gang violence. It’s in the news a lot these days…most every day, in some fashion. What isn’t seen every...
View ArticleMore Controversy for Couric’s Anti-Gun “Documentary”
Did Crew Send a Producer to Commit a Felony? Not long after the deceptive editing used in Katie Couric’s “Under the Gun“ was brought to light, it looks like there might be more controversy surrounding...
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ATF Releases U.S. Firearm Trace Data for 2015
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) released today firearm trace data for all individual U.S. states and territories for calendar year 2015. Trace information provides...
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HuffPo Pulls Anti-Gun Article After People Notice Them Advocating Gun Theft
It is not as if a story like this will surprise anyone who has taken any notice of the anti-gun “movement” for the past decade or so. That crowd has a rich history of having no respect or appreciation...
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U.S. Attorney’s Office and ATF Announce $500,000 Project Safe Neighborhoods...
John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and William Temple, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Dallas Field Division, joined Ken...
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Massive Increase in Thefts from Gun Dealers in 2016, More than Double in...
ATF “Very Concerned” About Gun Theft Increase Following a year in which gun theft from vehicles, homes, and dealers were on the rise, including several high profile car-through-the-building...
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Guess Which Country Just Helped Illustrate the Absurdity of US Suppressor Laws?
TN Man Convicted of Smuggling Suppressors into US Thanks to Lighter Regulation in… England(!?) Well, this is embarrassing, as far as firearm freedoms go. It’s like having to admit that your Bugatti...
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ATF Seeks Public Assistance in Recovering Rifles Stolen from Clayton, N.C....
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Clayton Police Department (CPD) are seeking the public’s assistance in the recovery of five 5.56/.223 caliber rifles stolen on November...
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Chicago Campaign Targets Illegal Gun Purchases
NSSF, ATF, U.S. Attorney, Area Law Enforcement Emphasize ‘Don’t Lie for the Other Guy’ As part of an ongoing national effort to help prevent illegal “straw” purchases of firearms, the National Shooting...
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