By appointing FBI Director Kash Patel as acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), President Donald Trump took a step towards reining in a federal agency ...

Patel will be responsible for two sprawling agencies at the Justice Department. ATF alone has 5,500 personnel.

As Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency targets the federal real estate footprint, office space in Raleigh and ...

Bernard La Forest retired from ATF after heading up its offices in Kansas City, Detroit, Phoenix and Los Angeles. His column is in response to a column by ticklethewire.com editor Allan Lengel ...

In law enforcement agencies, the general counsel’s office is often responsible for telling agents what they are legally allowed to do during an investigation. At ATF, the general counsel is also ...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' (ATF) chief legal counsel was fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday, the former ATF official confirmed on social media. "Earlier today ...

The ATF has chosen a new special agent to head up the agency’s Houston Field Office. Michael Weddel, who has been the regional country attaché for the ATF Central America Regional Office in El ...

It is unclear what President Donald Trump’s long-term plans are for ATF — a 5,000-person agency ... s Washington headquarters to satellite offices across the country. There haven’t been ...