It has been illegal since 1986 for the federal government to establish a national forearms registry. As you might expect of the sort of people who gravitate to government employment, the bureaucrats ...

On December 26, 2018, every American who owned a bump stock, a rifle accessory that facilitates rapid firing, was suddenly guilty of a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. That did ...

Dive into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a federal agency enforcing laws, investigating firearms and explosives offenses, and protecting communities from dangerous crimes. Google is ...

As anyone who has read the Constitution or watched Schoolhouse Rock could tell you, this is not how laws are supposed to be made. The Trump administration's bump stock ban, which is at the center of a ...

Jacob Sullum, a senior editor at Reason magazine, is the author of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books). Follow him on X: ...