Gun Owners of America says ATF Director Robert Cekada’s “61 active alerts” disclosure does not reveal the full reach of the FBI’s NICS Monitoring system. ATF is only one of several federal agencies that have used the system to track firearm purchases by legally eligible Americans.
Washington spent five days widening the gap between what gun law now allows and what ATF has told dealers to do. The FFL news digest for the week of September 21, and the decisions you should not make yet.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that NICS Monitoring tracked firearm transactions involving Americans who remained legally eligible to buy guns. The program violates the Brady Act’s written restrictions and turns a lawful Second Amendment exercise into a federal investigative alert.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the existence of NICS Monitoring. FOIA records now show that legally eligible gun buyers were flagged for reasons ranging from large purchases to associations and conduct that were not necessarily crimes.
Five years after AmmoLand’s John Crump exposed a secret program monitoring lawful firearm purchases through NICS, FBI Director Kash Patel has confirmed its existence before Congress. ATF restricted the surveillance system in 2025 but did not eliminate it.
Episode 69 was filmed August 28th, flying American Airlines from Chattanooga to Charlotte and on to New Orleans. Easy process, but the wait worked differently than I’m used to. Check-In at CHA Declared firearms. Agent asked about battery-powered devices and tobacco products — none. I open...
Editor’s Note: Springfield Armory provided the Master Class 10-8 Performance 1911 pistol used by the author in this review. The opinions and evaluations expressed here are the author’s own. I must admit something: I’m a Fudd at heart. I love carrying a full-size 1911 .45 ACP in a leathe...
Twenty-seven states are urging the Supreme Court to strike down Illinois’ and Connecticut’s AR-15 bans, arguing that commonly owned rifles cannot be prohibited under the Second Amendment.
President Donald Trump has pardoned Patrick “Tate” Adamiak and George Peterson, freeing two men whose cases became national examples of ATF overreach, disputed firearm classifications, federal gun registration, and excessive punishment for nonviolent conduct.
ATF says restricting competing forced reset triggers through Rare Breed’s private patent lawsuits would advance the agency’s public-safety interests.