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Corey Dickstein/Savannah Morning News Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Christopher Shaefer speaks in Savannah Wednesday about a lengthy investigation dubbed Operation Pulaski in which 33 defendents face federal charges of firearm and drug trafficking as other law enforcement officials look on.

One Savannah alderwoman says the joint federal-local gun and drug bust announced Wednesday is evidence Savannah-Chatham Metro Police Chief Willie Lovett is doing his job.

The news seemed to catch lawmakers by surprise, prompting calls for more oversight and scrutiny of the FBI's use of unmanned aircraft for domestic surveillance.

Maryland ranks near the top of the nation in the number of firearms its federally licensed gun dealers report as lost or stolen, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives , a distinction far out of proportion to the state's size or rate of firearm ownership.

What became Fast and Furious started out under the Bush Administration as Operation Wide Receiver in 2007.

A new report from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says 1,502 guns were reported lost or stolen from federally licensed Pennsylvania gun dealers in 2012, the highest total in the nation.

Columbia, Marion County, ATF, MBI, and the Highway patrol responded to a possible explosive device at Marion General Hospital on Thursday.

A spike in gun deaths in Chicago over Father's Day Weekend has Sen. Dick Durbin "putting the gun lobby on notice."

Gun dealers across the country reported losing nearly 11,000 firearms in 2012 and had 6,000 more guns stolen from their stores, according to a new federal report from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives .

For more than 30 years Allegheny Trade Company has been selling guns in Duncansville.

The Sikeston Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are working together to reduce violent crime in Sikeston.

State regulators ordered a Near-Westside recycling company that burned down during the weekend company to reduce the number of tires stored there last year because it could pose a fire hazard.

Law-enforcement officials stand outside Riverview Gun Sales, December 20, 2012, as authorities raid the store in East Windsor, Connecticut.

The White House is reporting progress on President Barack Obama's initiatives to reduce gun violence, but says the most important step would be getting a reluctant Congress to pass new firearms laws.

Obviously, that was incompetence. In the Benghazi affair, we still don't know who refused the diplomats' request for security in a dangerous country.

Just how many unregistered or stolen guns are available on the streets? A new report by the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives finds the numbers are staggering.

President Obama's nominee to head the embattled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives remains the focus of a federal investigation and a senior Republican is asking why his confirmation hearings last week weren't postponed until the case has been resolved.

Slightly more than 190,000 firearms were reported lost or stolen across the country last year, according to a new report by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.

Federal law enforcement is confusing. People entering the country illegally are in violation of our immigration laws.

CBS reporter Sheryl Atkissson, speaking this morning on CBS News, said that a forensic examination of her home and office computers showed that it had been subject to several remote searches by unidentified people in late 2012.