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The Supreme Court has denied Patrick Tate Adamiak’s case, leaving the former Navy sailor with a June resentencing hearing or a presidential pardon as his remaining paths to freedom after a 20-year sentence tied to demilled gun parts and ATF claims of machine gun possession.
Arkansas state senators are demanding a DOJ investigation into the 2024 ATF raid that killed Bryan Malinowski, raising questions about tactics, body cameras, notice, and the agency’s “engaged in the business” enforcement.
DOJ and ATF rolled out a historic 34-rule reform package aimed at reducing burdens on gun owners and the firearms industry. AmmoLand was there for the signing, but major questions remain over the frames-and-receiver rule, ATF’s out-of-business records database, and accountability after the Bryan Malinowski raid.
Critics say Trump has not done enough for gun owners because the ATF still exists and the NFA and GCA remain law. But presidents cannot repeal statutes by executive order. The better question is what Trump has done with the authority he actually has.
Gun owners are being urged to write President Donald Trump and support a pardon for Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, whose case has become a flashpoint over ATF overreach and abusive federal gun prosecutions.
Senate testimony from GOA’s Erich Pratt says the ATF has amassed nearly 1 billion firearm records, with 94 percent already digitized.
The Department of Justice has moved to dismiss Texas v. ATF, a landmark challenge to the Biden administration’s “engaged in the business” rule. Gun rights advocates say the move marks a major victory for private gun sales, collectors, and hobbyists who feared the ATF’s expanded dealer definition would criminalize ordinary conduct.
A federal judge in Alabama has paused Butler v. Bondi, the NRA-backed challenge to ATF’s 2024 “engaged in the business” rule, until the Senate votes on ATF Director nominee Robert Cekada.
The ATF has decided not to replace the Biden administration’s 2022 frames and receivers rule, keeping federal ghost gun restrictions in place despite earlier signals that a new regulation was under review.
In a new filing in VanDerStok v. Bondi, the ATF asked a federal court in Texas to stay the case for 90 days while it prepares a revised Frames and Receivers Rule.
ATF eForms users have reportedly been banned after exploiting a vulnerability, as a flood of NFA applications add new strain to the system.
ATF says the pistol brace rule case is now moot after nationwide vacatur, but warns some braced pistols may still be treated as short-barreled rifles under the NFA.
The ATF still faces a massive problem: What to do about the law-abiding gun owners who were falsely targeted and imprisoned by Joe Biden’s ATF, like Patrick “Tate” Adamiak.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit overturned a machine gun possession conviction against an Iowa police chief in United States v. Brad Wendt, while leaving fraud convictions intact.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has quietly built what amounts to a backdoor gun registry — in violation of federal law.
Approvals don’t erase the infringement. They reveal the needless bureaucracy of fingerprints, photos, forms, and months-long waits.
By all accounts, Cekada passed the test, and he will likely become the next Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
A key theme emerged around Second Amendment protections. Cekada repeatedly vowed that the ATF’s mission is “not to burden lawful gun owners.”
The ATF released a report in 2024 with updated data about traces involving privately made firearms, sometimes referred to as “ghost guns”.
The ATF under President Joe Biden, the authors claimed, “used crime gun intelligence to shut down known trafficking networks and identify the worst-of-the-worst dealers.”
The ATF published a rule in the Federal Register that would make it easier to transport National Firearms Act (NFA) firearms across state lines.
Georgia gunsmith and technical specialist Len Savage is an expert witness who has been involved in 29 federal court cases over a 20-year span.
Senate shutdown deal extends veterans gun ban defunding through 2030 but leaves 200,000 disarmed veterans unrestored.
ATF agents took two inert RPGs they had seized from Patrick “Tate” Adamiak’s home, inserted an RPG training device and a bunch of additional parts, fired a few 7.62x39mm rounds and classified them as Destructive Devices.
To understand how the government used the two legal Uzis and other legal firearms to support their case, you have to look at how Adamiak’s charges changed over time.
Buried in the Federal Register notice is the big one: the agency plans to remove the Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) notification requirement for NFA registration.
A coalition of 26 House Republicans led by Reps. Ben Cline and Mary Miller is demanding the ATF resume processing NFA applications during the government shutdown, arguing that furloughing examiners violates Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
The judges’ verdict was mixed. They agreed that one of his convictions violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment. But as to Adamiak’s other legal concerns, the judges wrote: “we discern no other reversible error.”
The case is seeking to get full Second Amendment rights to young adults in the 18-20-year age group who wish to purchase handguns, but are currently prohibited by federal law.
The DOJ is prepared to defend the ATF’s “engaged in the business” rule despite the President’s executive order on Second Amendment cases.
