Category: ATF

In Any Way, Shape, or eForm

Unfortunately, the implementation of this modification introduced a critical security flaw. According to sources familiar with the ATF’s internal operations, the update was not properly secured. Due to misconfigurations in the eForms system, the client-side form elements, those rendered in the user’s web browser, were vulnerable to manipulation. [More]

Sounds like incompetent administration all the way around, beginning with an inadequate request for proposal back when.

I’d love to see some of those “humorous, provocative, or outlandish” entries.

Anybody got the “step-by-step instructions on Reddit” link that has been deleted, and tried it on archive.today or Wayback Machine?

Brace Yourselves

In a blunt court filing from Monday, March 16, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) urged a federal judge to dismiss a high-profile challenge to its now-defunct pistol stabilizing brace rule, arguing the case has become completely moot. At the same time, the agency made clear it has no intention of abandoning enforcement against certain braced pistols under the National Firearms Act (NFA) and Gun Control Act (GCA). [More]

See, when Pam says “full might,” she also means “full might not.”

Time to Put Up

It is definitely time for ATF new leadership to take responsibility for Adamiak’s false arrest, fictitious prosecution and undeserved incarceration. [More]

After all, Cekada IS “the first ever truly pro-Second Amendment nominee to head the agency.” Our “gun rights leaders have told us so!

We’re All Suspects Now

Gun store owner says FBI asked him to check firearm sales against list of names, pics in Guthrie case… He said none of the names returned a match for firearm purchases within the past year. According to Martin, the agent told him investigators planned to visit additional gun stores to determine whether anyone on the list had recently bought a weapon. [More]

Why didn’t they just ask ATF?

What did Inspector Clouseau say?

[Via Steve T]

Supply and Demand

So where are the cartels getting their arms?

Anyway, I’d like to examine another side of this:

What do you guys do with the recovered guns? Do you try to return stolen ones to theft victims? Do you try to prosecute sellers? Will you make any available to We the People for the security of a free State, maybe turn ’em over to the CMP for resale, or do you just have them destroyed? By whom?

Cekada Heading ATF Still a No-Win Scenario for Gun Owners

Noting the legal environment the nominee is part of and stepping into, he’s as good as we’re going to get, but hardly measures up to the superlatives of being “truly pro-Second Amendment.” [More]

Some refuse to accept the parameters being defined for them, “don’t believe in the no-win scenario,” and don’t consider a writhing platter of gagh to be a gourmet meal.

For the Record

I’m still trying to figure out what’s constitutional about any of what they do.

[Via WiscoDave]

And Another One Gone, and Another One Gone, Another One Bites the Dust

Firearms manufacturers that closed down operations and filed for bankruptcy in 2025 included SCCY Industries LLC, whose assets were seized by the Volusia County Tax Office of Florida at its Daytona factory on March 11, 2025, for non-payment of tax debts of almost $250,000… And now, struggling firearms maker and dealer Custombilt Firearms Manufacturing LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after battling the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over its license in 2023 and 2024. [More]

So, unlike Big Rock, they’re both being shut down by governments headed by “pro-gun” administrations…?

[Via Jess]

Brace Yourselves

They say that the court cannot enjoin the ATF from enforcing legal theories, only final agency rules. They argue that because the pistol brace rule no longer exists, the court has no authority to block the ATF’s interpretation that brace pistols are in fact SBRs. In other words, they are not denying that they hold that legal view at all. They are only saying that the court cannot stop them from using it. And that is a huge red flag. And so in this case, they’re saying, you know, the rule is dead. Throw this case out, but you cannot touch any underlying legal theories that we have because that’s not an at issue in this case. [Watch]

In other words:

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[Via Jess]

We’re the Only Ones Incapable Enough

On the very first day that suppressors and short-barreled shotguns became tax-free, the ATF’s eForms system crashed for hours under overwhelming demand. For the first time in nearly a century, Americans were able to exercise this right without paying a $200 federal tax—yet the system meant to process those applications couldn’t handle the volume. [More]

Who’da thunk?

For some reason I’m recalling the old Panasonic slogan and imagining a modification:

[Via Jess]

Swamp the Swamp?

I hope everyone does this and swamps the ATF with no profit paperwork. Hundreds of thousands of forms a week. Lol [More]

In my experience, counting on most gun owners to join in activism solidarity ignores reality.

I’d prefer gun owners just keep their business to themselves like I have.

I never did register those Chore Boy pads.

Now there’s a question: Is that still required? Maybe swamp them with letters self-reporting cleaning pads…

[Via Michael G]

Forgetting Their Place

A father and son living in Alabama pleaded guilty in Laredo, Texas, to attempting to traffick over 500 weapons and a cache of ammunition over the border. Emilio Ramirez Cortes, 48, a Mexican citizen who legally resides in Albertville, Alabama, and his son, Edgar Emilio Ramirez Diaz, 23, also of Albertville, have now admitted to smuggling of goods from the United States and trafficking firearms, U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei announced. [More]

Who do they think they are? ATF?

[Via bondmen]

eInfringements Delayed

By now, we should all know that the fee for the Tax Stamp required for suppressor ownership is going away, but the process and stamp remain. In preparation for the enactment of the $0 Tax Stamp on Jan. 1, the ATF has announced they will stop processing eForm submissions through the eForms portal at midnight, Dec. 26, 2025. They are doing this so they can update their workflows and the eForms portal. These updates are expected to be complete and processing resumed beginning midnight Jan. 1, 2026. [More]

So some gun owners are upset because they won’t be able to obey immediately…?

[Via Jess]

But…But…But ‘Shall Not Be Infringed’…

The court noted that Peterson failed to demonstrate that the NFA’s requirements imposed an unconstitutional burden on him. [More]

Y’ever get the feeling that now they’re just f_ing with us?

Mr. Wolf has a caution (NSFW) for everyone celebrating how much Pam and Harmeet love us.

A Key Figure

Matthew Hoover has been released from a federal prison in Wisconsin after serving nearly three years of a five-year sentence for trafficking machine guns. He is now headed to a halfway house to serve out the remainder of his conviction. [More]

Google AI says this about the snitch:

Where the hell is Harmeet Dhillon? Task Force exclusivity strikes again in another bout of bipolarity.

Or is it? Everybody realizes what the “law-abiding citizens” qualifier allows, right? Hey, if you don’t like it, vote out Blue State Democrats! Until then, obey.

Meanwhile, if Trump can pardon Henry Cuellar:

Why does Hoover have to remain hostage another two years?

Gun Groups’ Warm Welcome for Trump’s Proposed ATF Head is Premature

Gun owners who pay attention to his confirmation hearings will have a chance to hear for themselves, and see how Cekada’s answers, especially to questions posed by anti-gun Democrats, comport with being “truly pro-Second Amendment.” [More]

“He won’t betray us as much” seems a heck of a standard to applaud.

BFF at ATF

Gun rights groups hail Trump’s pick to lead ATF: ‘First ever truly pro-Second Amendment nominee’ [More]

A true champion of the Second Amendment, eh? I wonder what Fletcher thinks.

He’ll be a DOJ team player. This is how the team plays:

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