Tag: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Arkansas Airport Executive Dies After Shootout With A.T.F.

The executive director of Arkansas’s largest airport died on Thursday after being wounded in a shootout this week with federal agents who were executing a search warrant at his home, the authorities said. According to the authorities, Bryan Malinowski, 53, the director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, shot at […]

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Michigan Vows to Destroy Buyback Guns After Resale Uproar

Michigan will no longer allow guns marked for destruction to be sold online as parts — a change prompted by public anger over revelations that firearms turned in through buyback programs were not being destroyed as promised. Michigan State Police, responsible for collecting unwanted firearms from local law enforcement, said on Tuesday that the weapons […]

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Supreme Court Appears Split Over Ban on Bump Stocks Enacted Under Trump

The Supreme Court wrestled on Wednesday over whether the Trump administration acted lawfully in enacting a ban on bump stocks after one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. The justices appeared split largely along ideological lines over the ban, which prohibits the sale and possession of bump stocks, attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles […]

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Baltimore Sues A.T.F. Over Access to Gun Data

The City of Baltimore is suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for blocking access to data on guns used to commit crimes — information it said was essential for targeting gun violence and identifying sellers who flood the city with weapons. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the city’s lawyers argued that […]

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Federal Law Requires a Choice: Marijuana or a Gun?

For Vera Cooper, the time had come to buy a gun. In her mid-70s at the time and widowed several years earlier, she was already feeling vulnerable, living by herself. Then came the tipping point: The plumbing business that Ms. Cooper owns in the Florida Panhandle had to fire a worker, and he stormed out […]

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Suspect in Vermont Shootings Arraigned on Charges of Attempted Murder

A 48-year-old Vermont man was charged on Monday with three counts of attempted second-degree murder in the weekend shootings of three young men of Palestinian descent on a Burlington street, a violent episode that stunned the small city. He pleaded not guilty. The suspect, Jason J. Eaton, was held without bail pending a bail hearing. […]

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Justices Reject, for Now, Missouri’s Effort to Override Federal Gun Laws

The Supreme Court refused on Friday to reinstate an expansive Missouri law that restricted state and local law enforcement agencies from enforcing federal gun laws and allowed private lawsuits against law enforcement agencies that violated the state’s understanding of the Second Amendment. The court’s brief order gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices […]

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