ATF

Inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Crime Gun Intelligence Mobile Command, special agents work side-by-side with Metropolitan Police Department detectives to link recovered guns and shell casings to multiple crime scenes in the D.C.  The two agencies along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office got together to form the NIBIN (National Integrated Ballistic Information Network) Investigations Unit....

Police say they’re using more than just manpower to address gun violence. News4’s Cory Smith reports they’re using technology, too.

DNA analysis has been around for decades, and it’s a crucial tool for solving violent crimes, but until recently, it was nearly impossible to collect DNA evidence left at shooting scenes. That changed with a process developed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The day after Christmas in 2019, two men walked into a Denny’s in...

DNA analysis has been around for decades, and it’s a crucial tool for solving violent crimes, but until recently it was nearly impossible to collect DNA from evidence left at shooting scenes. That’s changed with a process developed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. News4’s Paul Wagner has the story you’ll only see on...

President Joe Biden will unveil a series of executive actions aimed at addressing gun violence on Thursday, delivering his first major action on gun control since taking office.

A delivery driver and father of two was killed in a shooting at Denny’s when he arrived to pick up an order.

Investigators arrested 41-year-old Timothy Ireland Jr. at his home near Toledo, Ohio after he threatened to shoot and kill first term Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York in a Facebook post last month.

Investigators have released a flyer featuring a new clue in the unsolved case of a teenager who stepped on an explosive device in Central Park and lost part of his leg.

A 23-year-old American man, suspected of human smuggling, died Monday following a shootout with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, authorities confirmed.

The site was too hard to miss. Scores of weapons — rifles and pistols — were laid out in the driveway of a home located in Holmby Hills, one of the toniest neighborhoods in Los Angeles in an area known as the “platinum triangle.”

The ATF’s National Integrated Ballistic Information Network is able to compare shell casings to link them to guns and crimes. ATF IBIS Chief Walter Dandridge shows how it works.

D.C. police and federal officials seized millions of dollars worth of heroin and marijuana from a Northeast D.C. home in what the mayor called the largest-ever seizure of heroin in the region.

Rapper Tekashi69 is in federal custody on racketeering and firearms charges, along with a number of his former associates, officials say.

A gunman who was upset that his ex-wife had been awarded their home in their divorce was found dead after he shot at her and killed both his parents then exchanged gunfire with police in Pennsylvania.

News4’s Meagan Fitzgerald reports on new details about evidence in the mansion murders case. Legal experts disagree on how it will affect the trial of the one man charged in the four killings.

Investigators have released a flyer featuring a new clue in the unsolved case of a teenager who stepped on an explosive device in Central Park and lost part of his leg.

Authorities are offering a $61,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of suspects who shot a federal agent in the face Friday morning on Chicago’s South Side.

A federal agent was shot in the head on Chicago’s South Side early Friday, according to police.

Sheriff Scott Israel gave a detailed account of the initial timeline of the Florida high school shooting that left 17 dead and 14 injured. The ATF confirmed that the shooter had purchased the firearm used in the attack legally over a year ago.

A man dressed in all black and wearing a “ballistic vest” fired a Ruger semi-automatic rifle at a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others in what the governor called the deadliest mass shooting in the state’s history. Victims were churchgoers as young as five and as old as 72....