WASHINGTON — The nation's top gun-enforcement agency overwhelmingly targeted racial and ethnic minorities as it expanded its use of controversial drug sting operations, a USA TODAY investigation shows ...

It should come as no surprise that 2015 was a strong year for gun sales. The FBI processed more than 23 million background checks in 2015 through the National Instant Background Check System (NICS), ...

The clock is ticking on your ability to file National Firearms Act paperwork online before the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shutters its eForms system from Dec 26 through the ...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Inside a windowless office in a nondescript brick building, a lone man is staring at three computer screens while typing out lines of code. He’s among a group of developers and ...

President Trump’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is being hailed Wednesday as the “first ever truly pro-Second Amendment” choice to lead the agency. ATF ...

FBI Director Kash Patel, who also serves as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has outlined plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI, cutting ATF’s ...

A federal operation dubbed Fast and Furious allowed weapons from the U.S. to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers so the arms could be traced to the higher echelons of Mexican drug cartels.

"Gunwalking" is law enforcement vernacular for the concept of allowing criminal suspects to "walk" off with guns, without police interdicting or tracking them. It's widely considered taboo, since ...

Ausable, N.Y. - The ATF has now joined an investigation into a missing Adirondack man who was last seen over three years ago. The federal agency - most often involved in firearms and violent criminal ...

The federal government has stepped up its scrutiny of gun stores that sell guns used in crimes, with the number of stores singled out more than doubling in the past four years. Which gun stores sell ...

Federal agents have shifted attention away from serious gun crimes and shady weapons dealers to focus on President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants and deployments to patrol cities, ...