Steven Dettelbach, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), said his agency trusts local law enforcement to help it conduct firearms traces legally. “We support police and trust police departments to submit traces when they relate to criminal investigations,” he said. Dettelbach testified before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce,…

The conflict between gun owners and credit card companies is heating up as so-called red states move to enact laws that will block efforts by financial institutions to track Americans’ firearms purchases. West Virginia introduced on Jan 12. legislation that would ban credit card companies from collecting or disclosing data on their customers’ firearms purchases….

Arkansas Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton, both Republicans, joined a group of 20 other GOP senators sponsoring a Congressional Review Act Joint Resolution of Disapproval (CRA) to stop President Joe Biden’s bid to create a national firearms registry. “While crime spikes across our nation and especially within our major cities, President Biden’s administration continues to…