A man who claimed to have explosives in a truck parked in front of the Library of Congress surrendered to police Thursday afternoon.

The gossip website TMZ is reporting that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms told the producers of Meet the Press that host David Gregory could use a 30-bullet magazine as a prop.

Virginia is home to more than 30,000 legally registered, fully automatic machine guns, the most of any state in the country.

Marking the first time a cabinet official has ever been the subject of a vote, the House of Representatives today held Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

It’s particularly bad for California, but news that the federal government is moving in to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in the Golden State could well have an impact in the District of Columbia.

A Middletown man has been charged with attempted arson after he tried to set fire to the house of a Bureau of Alcohol Tabacco and Firearms agent in Frederick. John Christopher Woods, a volunteer firefighter, tried to add fuel to the flames of a gas grill outside of the ATF agent’s house. Woods told police he is in love with the agent and she had been ignoring his attempts to contact her.