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President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives faced withering questions from a Democratic lawmaker, who busted him lying about his own past work to improve gun safety.

ATF chief Robert Cekada announced 34 proposals to "modernize" agency regulations minutes after his April 29 Senate confirmation, and Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) asked the law enforcement veteran when he had started working up those proposals, and he suggested the changes were requested by Trump.

"I do not see a world where the president would nominate you to this position without knowing you would move forward with putting forward these 30 regulations you say you had been working on because of the executive order," Frost said. "Were the regulations discussed in any interview you have for your promotion?"...

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), a newly elected House lawmaker, wants to defund the federal agency that stops gun traffickers, reported The Daily Beast on Tuesday

"Just two months after a mass shooting at a Nashville school in his very own Congressional district, Ogles made the puzzling proposal to defund the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) through 2025," reported Erik Uebelacker. "'They’ve been weaponized, like other agencies, against the American people,' Ogles said. 'They’ve been regulating the gun industry by press release and fiat and not going through the proper channels of Congressional approval process.'"

Republicans have long vilified the ATF, which is responsible for federal gun crimes and, among other things, tracks the unlawful trafficking of firearms. Their unified opposition helped sink President Joe Biden's first choice for ATF director, David Chipman — indeed, prior to the appointment of Steve Dettelbach last year, the ATF only had one permanent director since 2006, in large part because of GOP obstruction of the office being filled....

A gun store in Burlington, Washington has finally been shuttered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) eight years after inspectors discovered that almost 2,500 guns were lost, claimed stolen, or otherwise unaccounted for.

A new belt-fed AR-15 military-style assault rifle can fire rounds as fast as fully-automatic machine guns -- and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) says that a legal loophole means that the gun is perfectly legal in the United States.

A gun store in East Windsor, Connecticut that sold two of the firearms found after the Newtown massacre recently saw its license revoked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) after inspections found hundreds of willful violations of federal regulations on weapons sales.