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President Donald Trump has ordered his Justice Department to work toward banning rapid-fire bump stocks like the ones used in last year's Las Vegas massacre - but officials aren't sure they can. Trump's surprise order this week comes as officials from the department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are well into a review of whether they can regulate the devices without action from Congress.
President Trump signed a memorandum instructing the attorney general to regulate the use of bump stocks, effectively banning the use of the devices that can allow rifles to mimic automatic weapons. Trump made the announcement at a Medal of Valor ceremony at the White House for firefighters and police officers - some of whom had intervened in shooting incidents.
An operation is underway with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Violent Task Force. A press conference is expected to be held Tuesday at 1 p.m., where more details are expected to be released.
In this Jan. 26, 2012 file photo, Dana Boente, then First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, speaks outside federal court in Alexandria, Va. Boenete, an understated career federal prosecutor, has found himself at the epicenter of several of the Trump administration's biggest controversies.
OAKLAND >> A man charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting the person he thought had killed his sister was sentenced Friday to nearly three years in federal prison, after he admitted to selling stolen guns throughout the East Bay. Diontae Valentine, who pleaded guilty to stolen gun possession and selling guns without a license, was one of eight Oakland men indicted on federal conspiracy and gun trafficking charges in December 2016, after an investigation by the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
A little over a dozen other states are also considering bans on bump stocks. Gun-control advocates say the push fits a pattern in gun politics: inaction in Washington that forces states to take the lead.
Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Sunday announced the formation of a new team of law enforcement officers who'll be plucked from an alphabet soup of local, state and federal agencies and charged with one task: stop carjackings.
The federal agency that regulates firearms received more than 35,000 comments on the legality of "bump stocks," the rapid-fire device used by the Las Vegas shooter that allows a semi-automatic gun to fire at nearly automatic rates. The online comments included dozens from Texans during the one-month commenting period - part of the Bureau Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' process to review whether bump stocks fall into the definition of a "machine gun."
A coordinated drug bust involving local, state and federal law enforcement officers resulted in the seizure of approximately 1,500 bags of heroin, cocaine, cash and two stolen handguns in Holyoke early Thursday evening. According to a news release from Holyoke Police Lt.
Law enforcement officials are looking for the suspects who stole around 13 firearms from an armory in Hanover, Maryland, on Sunday. Around 6:19 a.m. Sunday in Hanover Armory at 1327 Ashton Road, four people stole firearms, including handguns and rifles, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Baltimore Field Division said in a news release.
January 1, 2016. . Campers set up along the Rose Parade 's route on New Year's Eve won't see a late night stream of hot rods, muscle cars and low riders cruising by this year because the city plans to close off Colorado Boulevard earlier than ever before.
Month after month, new victims emerged: a woman killed in a mall parking lot, two toddlers accidentally shot outside a Chuck E. Cheese's, seven shot in a drive-by in a residential neighborhood. The 2016 murder rate was a 15-year high .
A federal grand jury issued an indictment on Tuesday against Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, the undocumented immigrant who was acquitted on state charges of murder and manslaughter last week in the shooting of Kate Steinle. The Mexican national will now face new immigration and gun charges as announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Attorney for the Northern District of California Brian Stretch; and Jill Snyder, special agent in charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives .
"The FBI issued 4,170 orders last year to [steal] guns from buyers who should [sic] have been blocked by the federal background check system, according to a new report from USA Today. The purchasers include people with criminal records, mental health issues or other red flags.
A USA Today review found that the FBI issued more than 4,000 requests last year for agents to retrieve guns from prohibited buyers. A USA TODAY review finds thousands of guns were sold to people who should have failed their background checks.
When a city that's seen more than its share of depressing headlines concerning violent crime over the last several years gets an encouraging word on the same subject, it is worth noting. Last week, the front page of The Record and Herald News carried the headline: " Paterson seizures of guns on rise: Doubled since 2011, report says.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday ordered a review of a government database used for background checks on gun buyers, after a man who killed 26 people in a Texas church was left off the system despite having a criminal record. Sessions said the Nov. 5 shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, by Devin Kelley, a former Air Force serviceman who had a 2012 conviction for domestic assault, showed that not all the necessary information was being added to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.
The remains of two individuals have been found in the rubble of a Pennsylvania senior living community that burned down in a massive fire last Thursday. Authorities discovered the first victim of the Barclays Friends Senior Living Community fire in West Chester, Pennsylvania early Tuesday morning.
This photo provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows an aerial of Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in West Chester, Pa., Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. Authorities struggled Friday to account for the whereabouts of all the residents of a Pennsylvania senior living community after a massive blaze tore through their complex during the middle of the night, injuring nearly 30 and leading to a chaotic evacuation.
A former Newcomerstown police officer accused of lying about being shot on duty causing a manhunt for a fictional suspect pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from the incident. One count of inducing panic, a felony of the fifth degree; One count of making false alarms, a felony of the fifth degree; Two counts of tampering with evidence, felonies of the third degree; One count of forgery, a felony of the fifth degree; and One count of workers' compensation fraud, a misdemeanor of the first degree.