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Dark web gun trafficker caught selling weapons to Australia by hiding them inside electronics is jailed in the U.S. A member of a U.S. dark web gun trafficking group that hid firearms in electronics products and sent them to customers in Australia and other parts of the world has been sentenced to almost three years jail. The Atlanta-based group advertised guns for sale on the underground website BlackMarketReloaded that operated on The Onion Router, which masks the identity of its users, according to prosecutors.
And to make sure no one is left out, the Big Bend Bomb Squad built special eggs for kids who are visually impaired in Tallahassee, Florida. From the outside, the finished product looks just like an ordinary Easter egg.
Authorities today announced a $10,000 reward for information that helps them find out who took 31 firearms from a vault in the old Compton City Hall building, where they were being stored following the disbanding nearly 20 years ago of the city's police department. Investigators believe the firearms were taken some time between March 6 and Aug. 31, 2017, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
President Trump, alongside Vice President Pence, speaks to the news media about the 2,232 page, $1.3 trillion spending bill, at the White House in Washington, March 23, 2018. In announcing the Justice Department's proposal to ban bump stocks in a tweet on Friday, President Trump blamed his predecessor for permitting the devices to be sold.
The Trump administration on Friday announced a new regulation that would outlaw "bump stocks," the mechanical device used by the Las Vegas shooter to make his rifles fire like more lethal automatic weapons. President Donald Trump announced the regulation in a Twitter message a day before the so-called March for Our Lives, which was organized by young people after the mass slayings at a Parkland, Fla., high school.
The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security committee says authorities seem to think the Austin bombing suspect had "above average intelligence." Republican Congressman Michael McCaul told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the suspect matched the FBI's initial profile suspicion that the bomber was likely a white male.
Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley, flanked by ATF Special Agent Fred Milanowski and FBI Special Agent Christopher Combs, provides an update Sunday on the investigation into a string of package bombs. Authorities have increased the reward to $100,000 for information leading to an arrest in a string of package bombings in Austin.
In this Jan. 25, 2011, file photo, part of a cache of seized weapons displayed at a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ATF news conference in Phoenix. After six years of legal wrangling, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice in their dispute over the release of documents related to the controversial "gun-walking" program known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Thanks to your hard work, Governor Bruce Rauner has vetoed the two anti-gun bills that would drive your local gun stores out of business. However, the fight is not yet over, as anti-gun Senators will attempt to override the veto.
Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo speaks from the bench Nov. 25, 2013, in Chicago. Castillo urged federal law enforcement across the country to stop conducting stings in which undercover agents talk suspects into agreeing to steal nonexistent drugs from nonexistent stash houses, saying they overwhelmingly target blacks, are deeply flawed and should become a relic of the past.
A judge on Monday urged federal law enforcement across the country to stop conducting stings in which undercover agents talk suspects into agreeing to steal non-existent drugs from non-existent stash houses, saying they overwhelmingly target blacks, are deeply flawed and should become a relic of the past. Reading from his 73-page written ruling during a Chicago hearing, Chief U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo questioned the overall fairness of the phony stash-house stings, which involve U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents posing as disgruntled Mexican cartel couriers who dangle the prospect of lucrative payouts to the would-be thieves.
A federal judge in Chicago is slated to issue a first-in-the-nation ruling Monday about whether law enforcement stings where suspects are talked into robbing non-existent drugs from non-existent stash houses are racially biased. The ruling could determine whether agencies nationwide curtail their reliance on phony stash-house stings, which date to the 1990s and are overseen by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The ATF is investigating Virginia Democrat Karen Mallard after she posted a video of her cutting the barrel off her husband's AR-15 rifle in an attempt to destroy it. She may have committed a federal felony instead.
The Justice Department has taken the first step in banning the sale, manufacture or possession of bump stocks through new regulation, as Congress stalls in drafting a legislative prohibition. "The Department of Justice has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a notice of a proposed regulation to clarify that the National Firearms and Gun Control Act defines 'machinegun' to include bump stock type devices," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement issued Saturday.
The Trump administration said Saturday it has taken the first step in the regulatory process to ban bump stocks, likely setting the stage for long legal battles with gun manufacturers while the trigger devices remain on the market. The move was expected after President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to work toward a ban following the shooting deaths of 17 people at a Florida high school in February.
Twelve bump stocks were found in the hotel room of the Las Vegas massacre shooter. Lawmakers, including some Republicans are concerned about their capabilities but what are they? Days after yet another mass shooting sparked a nationwide debate on gun control and an immediate response from lawmakers, President Trump took action.
AS a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent made his way onto the roof of a building in the large compound in Waco, a volley of bullets ripped through the wall beside him. A TV camera captured the moment he was hit and crumpled on the roof.
The bump stock, shown above in Orem, Utah, is a device when installed allows a semi-automatic to fire at a rapid rate much like a fully automatic gun. The bump stock, shown above in Orem, Utah, is a device when installed allows a semi-automatic to fire at a rapid rate much like a fully automatic gun.
A man with a history of violent behavior intentionally crashed a car filled with gasoline containers into a Connecticut hospital emergency room on Thursday and then set himself on fire, authorities said. The man, identified by officials as 27-year-old Steven Ellam, used Facebook Live to broadcast the crash.
From students to President Donald Trump, the conversation continues on what to do about purchasing guns. President Trump tweeted Thursday support for comprehensive background checks, raising the purchasing age, universally, to 21 and banning bump stocks.