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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks prior to President Joe Biden speaking about lowering health care costs in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Sanders says he will not attend any speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ** FILE **

Man arrested for setting fire outside Bernie Sanders’ office stayed at area hotel for weeks

By Lisa Rathke - Associated Press

ATF agents gather in a parking lot where media have been asked to gather, down the road from the entrance to Ft. Meade after a vehicle rammed a gate to the National Security Agency, Monday, March 30, 2015 in Fort Meade, Md. One person was killed in a firefight that erupted Monday after a car with two people tried to ram a gate at the Fort Meade, Md., military base near a gate to the National Security Agency, according to preliminary reports cited by two U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Sheriff: Residents should tell ATF agents conducting warrantless gun inspections to leave

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FILE - The Federal Correctional Institution is shown in Dublin, Calif., July 20, 2006. Nearly 100 federal Bureau of Prisons employees have been arrested, convicted or sentenced in criminal cases since the start of 2019, accused of crimes from smuggling drugs and weapons to stealing prison property, sexually assaulting inmates and murder. Those arrested include Ray Garcia, the warden at the Federal Correctional Institution at Dublin. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Inside federal prisons, employees are committing the crimes

By Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak - Associated Press

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**

McConnell urges Biden to withdraw ‘misguided’ nomination of David Chipman to head ATF

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Biden's ATF Nominee David Chipman Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Senate must reject David Chipman, Biden’s anti-gun ATF nominee

By Austin Knudsen

In this Oct. 4, 2017, photo, a device called a "bump stock" is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at the Gun Vault store and shooting range in South Jordan, Utah. In the days and weeks leading up to the ban on bump stocks that took effect Tuesday, March 26, 2019, tens of thousands of the devices were destroyed by owners or handed over to authorities. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) **FILE**

Bump stocks not ‘machine guns’ and not subject to ATF ban, federal appeals court rules

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

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

National Fraternal Order of Police President Chuck Canterbury listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with the Fraternal Order of Police, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Trump pulls plug on Chuck Canterbury, nominee to head up ATF

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Alabama police chief retires, former ATF agent named leader

Associated Press

Guns, drugs seized in Alaska multi-agency investigation

By DAN JOLING - 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

Columbus, Ohio, argues that it has a right to ban bump stocks because they are an "accessory" to a firearm, not a "part" of one, and that the city is trying to close a gap between federal and state law with new penalties for domestic abusers caught with guns. (Associated Press/File)

William L. Akins, Akins Accelerator bump stock inventor, warns owners against waiving rights

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

The Latest: ATF: 2nd suspect arrested in stolen guns case

Associated Press

Federal and local authorities investigate along North Hall Street in Allentown, Pa., Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018, after a fiery car explosion rocked the neighborhood on Saturday night. Police confirmed several fatalities. (Harry Fisher/The Morning Call via AP)

The Latest: Investigators ID 3 dead in car explosion

Associated Press

ATF warns public after 400 guns stolen in Tennessee

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 20, 2014, file photo, a United Parcel Service driver starts his truck after making a delivery in Cumming, Ga. UPS reports financial results on Friday, July 29, 2016. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

400 guns stolen from UPS facility in Memphis, Tennessee, by two people in U-Haul truck, ATF says

By Adrian Sainz - Associated Press

Police join members of the ATF and the FBI as they investigate North Hall Street in Allentown, Pa., Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018, after a fiery car explosion rocked the neighborhood on Saturday. Police confirmed at least one fatality and at least 50 investigators remain on the scene scouring for evidence. (Harry Fisher/The Morning Call via AP)

Car explosion in Allentown, Pennsylvania kills 3

Associated Press

This 2017 photo from a prior arrest provided by the Chicago Police Department, shows Ernesto Godinez. Federal authorities charged Godinez Tuesday, May 8, 2018 in the shooting of an ATF agent in Chicago last week. Godinez, made a brief appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago to hear the charges against him. A complaint charges him with forcible assault of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent in the Friday shooting. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

ATF agent shot last week in Chicago is out of hospital

Associated Press

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