ATF
- 1791 first tax on whiskey
- 1792 ATF Began under Internal Revenue
- 1862 Bureau of Internal Revenue
- 1919 Prohibition
- 1927 became Prohibition Unit
– Bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
– new mission of crime fighting - 1930 transferred to the U.S. Department of Justice
- 1933 prohibition ended
- 1933 Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU)
– of the Internal Revenue Service
– U.S. Department of the Treasury - 1951 Bureau of Internal Revenue became the Internal Revenue Service
– ATU absorbed the Miscellaneous Tax Unit
– responsible for collecting taxes on tobacco
– regulatory provisions of the National Firearms Act of 1934 - 1952 Internal Revenue Service consolidated internal enforcement as the “Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division”
- 1960s Moonshine
- 1968 Omnibus Crime Control Act & Gun Control Act (GCA)
– jurisdiction over destructive devices - 1970 Organized Crime Control Act
- 1971 became the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division
- 1972 became independent Bureau
– reports directly to the U.S. Department - 1970s investigation of illicit alcohol, to crimes involving firearms, explosives, and arson
- 1992 Branch Davidians, Waco, Texas
- 2016 collected a total of $68,614,000 from NFA firearms
- 2020, ATF had 5,082 employees, including 2,653 special agents and 760 industry operations investigators. Its FY 2020 enacted budget was approximately $1.4 billion
https://www.atf.gov/about-atf/budget-performance
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/report/2021-firearms-commerce-report/download
FBI
- NICS
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