Congress must rein in ATF's billion-record gun archive after Qilin breach
6:00am Friday, October 09, 2026
For 30 years, the same story has repeated itself inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives: Congress bars the agency from building anything that looks like a national gun registry, ATF quietly builds something that comes close anyway, and it takes an outside audit, sometimes a decade or more later, to catch it.




