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Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Rep. Gaetz accuses ATF of harassing a gun shop owner who testified to Congress about the agency

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Gun Activist David Chipman Nominated for ATF Chief Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Anti-gun lobbyist David Chipman unsuited to run the ATF

By David Keene - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 25, 2019, photo, Giffords Law Center Senior Policy Adviser David Chipman speaks at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on assault weapons on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration had nominated Chipman, a former federal agent and adviser at the gun control group Giffords, to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Judiciary Republicans demand second hearing for Biden ATF nominee amid racist-comment allegations

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Hunter Biden (Associated Press/File)

David Chipman, Joe Biden’s pick to lead ATF, dodges on Hunter Biden gun incident

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Investigators: Fire at Kansas church ruled an accident

Associated Press

In this Feb. 4, 2014, file photo, Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., left, accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., center, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Stabilizing brace ban pulled by Trump administration in victory for gun rights activists

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Law enforcement agent dies after accidental shooting on Maui

Associated Press

In this March 15, 2020, file photo, people wait in line to enter a gun store in Culver City, Calif. A federal judge is refusing to block Los Angeles officials from shutting down gun stores as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, April 6, 2020, the ruling the second time was that federal judges in California have declined to intervene in shutdown orders even as similar orders are being challenged nationwide. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Feds OK drive-through gun sales amid coronavirus crisis

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Chicago man gets 10 years after ATF agent injured in ambush

Associated Press

An ATF policeman goes to a vehicle as law enforcement and first responders block off the area around the McAnulty Acres apartment complex, as authorities continue their investigation of a shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue where multiple people were killed, on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, in Baldwin, Pa., a suburb south of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ** FILE **

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives understaffed, underfunded

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker addresses law enforcement officials at the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Matthew Whitaker initiative will fight gun crimes

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

ATF agent critically wounded in Gary, Indiana, shooting

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Chicago suspect in shooting of ATF agent pleads not guilty

Associated Press

Quick release of gun data called trailblazing and troubling

By MIKE CATALINI - Associated Press

In this April 19, 1993 file photo, flames engulf the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Doomsday cult leader David Koresh's apocalyptic vision came true when the fire believed set by his followers destroyed their prairie compound as federal agents tried to drive them out with tear gas after a 51-day standoff. As many as 86 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect, including Koresh and 24 children, were thought to have died as the flames raced through the wooden buildings in 30 minutes. Only nine were known to have survived. (AP Photo/Susan Weems, File)

AP Was There: The fiery end of the standoff near Waco, Texas

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In this April 19, 1993 file photo, flames engulf the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. Doomsday cult leader David Koresh's apocalyptic vision came true when the fire believed set by his followers destroyed their prairie compound as federal agents tried to drive them out with tear gas after a 51-day standoff. As many as 86 members of the Branch Davidian religious sect, including Koresh and 24 children, were thought to have died as the flames raced through the wooden buildings in 30 minutes. Only nine were known to have survived. (AP Photo/Susan Weems, File)

AP Was There: The fiery end of the standoff in Waco, Texas

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Reports from 13 field offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives underestimated total ammunition by nearly 31,000 rounds, an inspector general's report says.

ATF not adequately tracking weapons, says inspector general in new report

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Officials investigate the scene where a suspect in a series of bombing attacks in Austin blew himself up early Wednesday as authorities closed in, Wednesday, March 21, 2018, in Round Rock, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Trump commends police after suspected Austin bomber blows himself up

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

ATF says it is with FBI, Austin Police “at the scene of the individual suspected in the #packagebomb

Associated Press

ATF agent says investigators think the dead suspect built all of the Austin bombs but they haven’t r

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