by Data Age | May 19, 2014 | Firearms, News
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Four congressmen are demanding answers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about whether anyone has been held accountable for a botched, undercover guns and drugs operation in Milwaukee. The congressmen, including Rep. Jim...
by Data Age | May 19, 2014 | Firearms, Industry, News
Petersburg police are investigating the theft of multiple firearms from a gun retailer Sunday morning. Around 11 a.m. Sunday, police said, an alarm was triggered at the Dunbar Gun Company in the 200 block of N. South Street. Police said several rifles and shotguns...
by Data Age | May 15, 2014 | Firearms, Industry, News
Just as America’s premier gun-policing agency began to crawl out from under the embarrassment of Operation Fast and Furious, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is again under fire — this time for tactical mistakes tied to a separate...
by Data Age | May 15, 2014 | Compliance, Education, Firearms, Industry, Laws, News
It was John Zawahri’s failure to pass a background check that prevented him from buying a firearm in California several years ago. So the 23-year-old obtained an “unfinished receiver,” the metal piece that holds the critical mechanisms that allow guns to fire, and...
by Data Age | May 15, 2014 | Firearms, Industry, News
A $20,000 reward is being offered to find the person responsible for burglarizing a northeast Georgia pawn shop and making off with firearms. Investigators believe that a church van stolen from Atlanta was used in a smash-and-grab burglary at Gene’s Pawn Shop in...
by Data Age | May 15, 2014 | Firearms, News
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A federal jury convicted a man from Lebanon on Wednesday for illegally possessing a firearm and attempting to acquire a firearm. James Jacoby, 31, is guilty of both counts of a federal indictment handed up on May 8, 2013, that charges him...
