Federal Agents Accused of Illegally Modifying Weapons
From Chron.com: A former state Department of Justice drug agent accused his colleagues last year of illegally modifying their state-issued rifles, according to emails the agency released Thursday. The...
View ArticleDimitrios Karras Discusses Ares Armor Situation
Here is a video of the CEO of Ares Armor talking to a local news station before the raid: Click here to watch the interview with The Blaze. Reason.tv interview:
View ArticleThe “80% Lower” Situation
From The Bang Switch: Here’s a not so well kept secret, there’s no such thing as an 80% lower in the eyes of the BATF — it’s either a gun or it isn’t. The phrase “80% lower” was coined by a cleaver...
View ArticleFast and Furious Docs Released on Election Eve
From joemiller.us: After years of legal battles between the House Oversight Committee and Attorney General Eric Holder, 64,280 redacted Operation Fast and Furious documents held under President Obama’s...
View ArticleCritics of Obama Admin to Testify on New Attorney General Thursday
From Townhall.com: Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has been repeatedly targeted by the Department of Justice for her work on Benghazi and Operation Fast and Furious Milwaukee County...
View ArticleFDIC Backtracking on Targeting of “Risky” Gun Businesses
From The Daily Signal: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has acknowledged its role in Operation Choke Point and is taking dramatic steps to reverse its policies in targeting legal and legitimate...
View ArticleSenator Rubio Introduces Law To Protect Gun Businesses
From Sen. Rubio: “Operation Choke Point is an attempt by the Obama Administration to weaken 2nd Amendment rights in America, which enable people to protect themselves and their families,” said Rubio....
View ArticleAgain: DHS Warns of “Right-wing” Terrorism
From CNN: A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen...
View ArticleATF Director Resigning At End Of March
From FoxNews: B. Todd Jones’ resignation is effective March 31. After that, Deputy Director Thomas Brandon will become acting director. “I will truly miss leading and working side-by-side with these...
View ArticleAct Would Limit BATFE’s Arbitrary Limits on Guns
From NRA-ILA: The term “sporting purposes” is undefined by federal statute and has been subject to several reinterpretations by the BATFE and its predecessor agency. BATFE and anti-gun administrations...
View ArticleLaura Poitras Sues U.S. Government
From EFF: Washington, D.C. – Academy and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. transportation security agencies today demanding...
View ArticleATF Claims It’s Not Subject To FOIA
From Guns.com: “The ATF is not an ‘agency’ within the meaning of the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. § 552(f)(1), and is, therefore, not a proper party defendant,” the agency wrote in its answer to a complaint filed in...
View ArticleNew Gun Bill Is Gun Controlers’ Wet Dream
From The Federalist: Unlike a standard criminal trial, in which a jury must decide beyond a reasonable doubt whether you have violated a criminal law, under this proposed law the government must only...
View ArticleFBI Agents Involved In Oregon Standoff Shooting Under Investigation
From Oregon Live: An FBI agent is suspected of lying about firing twice at Robert “LaVoy” Finicium and may have gotten help from four other FBI agents in covering up afterward, authorities revealed...
View ArticleHow Did The FBI Break Into iPhone?
From the EFF: In addition, this new method of accessing the phone raises questions about the government’s apparent use of security vulnerabilities in iOS and whether it will inform Apple about these...
View ArticleFBI Director Equate Encryption Debate To Gun Debate
From The Wall Street Journal: “Some of the emotion that I’ve received around this issued remind me sometimes, in the absolutist and slippery slope arguments, reminds me of some of the rhetoric we hear...
View ArticleSignal App Subpoenaed For User Data
From Open Whisper Systems: In the “first half of 2016” (the most specific we’re permitted to be), we received a subpoena from the Eastern District of Virginia. The subpoena required us to provide...
View ArticleObama Admin Drops Charges Against Arms Dealer Who Could Blow Whistle On...
From Politico: Lawyers for the Justice Department on Monday filed a motion in federal court in Phoenix to drop the case against the arms dealer, an American named Marc Turi, whose lawyers also signed...
View ArticleDenver Sheriff Sued By DOJ For Not Hiring Non-Citizens
From The Denver Post: The Denver Sheriff Department has run afoul of the U.S. Department of Justice because it made U.S. citizenship a job requirement for its deputies during a hiring spree in 2015 and...
View ArticleOperation Choke Point Under Scrutiny
From Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF recently received dozens of pages of documents in response to a FOIA request we submitted about Operation Choke Point, a Department of Justice project to...
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