The United States Department of Justice (DOJ),also known as the Justice Department,is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States. It is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department is headed by the U.S. attorney general,who reports directly to the president of the United States and is a member of the president's Cabinet. The current attorney general is Merrick Garland,who has served since March 2021.
The Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives (BATFE),commonly referred to as the ATF,is a domestic law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and prevention of federal offenses involving the unlawful use,manufacture,and possession of firearms and explosives;acts of arson and bombings;and illegal trafficking and tax evasion of alcohol and tobacco products. The ATF also regulates via licensing the sale,possession,and transportation of firearms,ammunition,and explosives in interstate commerce. Many of the ATF's activities are carried out in conjunction with task forces made up of state and local law enforcement officers,such as Project Safe Neighborhoods. The ATF operates a unique fire research laboratory in Beltsville,Maryland,where full-scale mock-ups of criminal arson can be reconstructed. The ATF had 5,285 employees and an annual budget of almost $1.5 billion in 2021. The ATF has received criticism over its handling of the Ruby Ridge siege,the Waco siege and other incidents.
The Bureau of Prohibition was the United States federal law enforcement agency formed to enforce the National Prohibition Act of 1919,commonly known as the Volstead Act,which enforced the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding the prohibition of the manufacture,sale,and transportation of alcoholic beverages. When it was first established in 1920,it was a unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. On April 1,1927,it became an independent entity within the Department of the Treasury,changing its name from the Prohibition Unit to the Bureau of Prohibition. In 1930,it became part of the Department of Justice. By 1933,with the repeal of Prohibition imminent,it was briefly absorbed into the FBI,or "Bureau of Investigation" as it was then called,and became the Bureau's "Alcohol Beverage Unit," though,for practical purposes it continued to operate as a separate agency. Very shortly after that,once repeal became a reality,and the only federal laws regarding alcoholic beverages being their taxation,it was switched back to Treasury,where it was renamed the Alcohol Tax Unit.
A Federal Firearms License (FFL) is a license in the United States that enables an individual or a company to engage in a business pertaining to the manufacture or importation of firearms and ammunition,or the interstate and intrastate sale of firearms. Holding an FFL to engage in certain such activities has been a legal requirement within the United States since the enactment of the Gun Control Act of 1968. The FFL is issued by the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms,and Explosives
The Almighty Saints is a street gang founded in the early 1960s by Polish youth at Davis Square Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago,but later was largely made up of Hispanics due to the change in the community's ethnic makeup.
Carl Joseph Truscott is a security expert and was the sixth Director of the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives in the United States Department of Justice under George W. Bush,a position he held from 2004 to 2006.
Gun show loophole is a political term in the United States referring to the sale of firearms by private sellers,including those done at gun shows,that do not require the seller to conduct a federal background check of the buyer. This is also called the private sale exemption. Under U.S. federal law,any person may sell a firearm to a federally unlicensed resident of the state where they reside,as long as they do not know or have reasonable cause to believe that the person is prohibited from receiving or possessing firearms.
Wyoming High School (WHS) is a public high school located in Wyoming,Ohio,a suburb of Cincinnati. The school is operated by the Wyoming City School District,in Hamilton County. The district serves students from the city of Wyoming and parts of surrounding Springfield Township.
A binary explosive or two-component explosive is an explosive consisting of two components,neither of which is explosive by itself,which have to be mixed in order to become explosive. Examples of common binary explosives include Oxyliquit,ANFO,Kinestik,Tannerite and ammonal,and FIXOR.
Anne Melissa Milgram is an American attorney and academic who currently serves as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since 2021. She previously served as the 57th Attorney General of New Jersey from 2007 to 2010.
In the United States,the right to keep and bear arms is modulated by a variety of state and federal statutes. These laws generally regulate the manufacture,trade,possession,transfer,record keeping,transport,and destruction of firearms,ammunition,and firearms accessories. They are enforced by state,local and the federal agencies which include the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Project Gunrunner is a project of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives (ATF) intended to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico,in an attempt to deprive the Mexican drug cartels of weapons.
Bradley A. Buckles was sworn in as the fifth Director of the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) on December 20,1999,by Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers. He previously served as deputy director under ATF Director John Magaw from 1996 to 1999. He began his service with ATF in 1974 when he joined the ATF Office of Chief Counsel. He was named Chief Counsel of ATF in 1995.
eTrace is an Internet-based firearm trace request submission system,developed by the United States' federal government,Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives,that provides for the electronic exchange of traced firearm data in a secure internet-based environment. Participating law enforcement agencies with access to the internet can acquire 24/7 real-time capabilities to electronically submit firearm trace requests,monitor the progress of traces,retrieve completed trace results,and to query firearm trace related data in Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives (ATF) firearms registration database at the National Tracing Center. Firearms tracing is the systematic tracking of the movement of a firearm from its creation by the manufacturer or its introduction into U.S. commerce by the importer,through the distribution chain to the first retail purchase. Release 4.0,a bilingual version of eTrace was deployed in December,2009 for the benefit of Spanish-speaking countries.
Kenneth E. Melson is the former acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in the United States. He was appointed to this post by Attorney General Eric Holder in 2009. He resigned as head of the ATF in the aftermath of the ATF gunwalking scandal and was replaced by B. Todd Jones,a former Marine who has twice served as the U.S. attorney in Minnesota.
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Steven Michael Dettelbach is an American lawyer from Cleveland,Ohio,and is the current director of the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives (ATF). He was the United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio for over six years during the presidency of Barack Obama,resigning in 2016. From 2016 to 2022,he was a partner at BakerHostetler,serving as co-leader of the firm's national White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations team. In July 2022,he was appointed by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate as the director of the ATF.
Regina Lombardo is an American law enforcement official previously serving as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives.
David Howland Chipman is an American former ATF agent and gun control advocate who was most recently the nominee to serve as the director of the Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives in the Biden administration;however,this nomination was withdrawn.
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