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The Industry
Current and former agency officials told The Trace that the appointment of two acting directors in as many months has roiled staff.
The Business of Guns
The Biden-era policy resulted in a record number of gun dealers losing their licenses to operate.
The shift comes after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting linked former police guns to crimes.
ATF
Patel, the FBI director and newly appointed head of the nation’s top firearms regulator, is cozy with the most extreme flank of the gun rights movement.
The change ends a federal court challenge and is expected to give inspectors more discretion in penalizing gun shops for violations.
The agency’s recommendation comes less than a year after an investigation by The Trace found that thousands of used police guns were involved in crimes.
The president vowed to move the needle on gun policy if elected. Now, as he prepares to leave office, advocates reflect on his record.
A Trace review shows that though some licenses were pulled for minor infractions, the majority of revocations followed serious violations.
In a new episode of “Reveal,” The Trace’s Alain Stephens reports on how law enforcement agencies routinely resell their used guns to buy new ones.
The court’s rollback of the 40-year-old precedent could dilute the power of federal agencies — including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The records provide new details about firearms smuggled out of the United States and set a precedent for increased public access to information about guns used in crimes.
Our investigation found that more than 52,000 police guns have been involved in crimes since 2006. Many of those weapons were resold by law enforcement agencies sworn to protect the public.
A new rule is designed to end years of ambiguity and allow law enforcement to crack down on unlicensed gun dealers.
The Gun Machine
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is supposed to regulate the gun industry. The seventh episode of The Gun Machine explores the gun lobby’s efforts to impede the agency.
The injunction is unlikely to prevent the ATF from enforcing the rule nationally after a grace period that ended May 31.
