ATF
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- proper noun
- /eɪ ti ɛf/
- US
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ATF (Oficina de Alcohol, Tabaco, Armas de Fuego y Explosivos de EE. UU.)
- The ATF conducts investigations into illegal trafficking of firearms.
- ATF regulations
- ATF authority
- ATF to regulate firearms
Get out of my county or the ATF or whatever it is.
- Get out of my county or the ATF or whatever it is.
- So if you type in Jackson, MI, gun store robbery, ATF, make sure you put ATF in there.
- But who is the agency is ATF or something?
- And same for the Postal Inspection Service, same for the ATF.
- They left the property like six months later, the ATF is doing an audit.
- We got the DEA, got the FBI, got ATF, you got the US Marshals, you got the State Department.
- Now real quick Google that ATF and that operation that they did where they were sending guns to Mexico.
- And I find this book called, I think it was very special agent, something like that, the history of the ATF.
- So the cop, the ATF thinks the kid stole the guns and and stole them all these drug dealers, right?
- So he he calls up the ATF the and he tells them what you know, that Diveroli is trying to do this deal with them, with him.
- And what it was was that the ATF agents were watching people, cartel affiliates, buy guns and traffic them to the cartels.
- The IRS, the ATF, the ACA, Solyndra, Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.
Examples
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ATF was looking for him for gun charges.
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The counselor informed her that the position had not been eliminated, but rather ATF had hired another candidate for the position.
Academic text (2017) -
And the ATF agent tells him, hey, you know, I know you like guns.
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The victim called the local ATF office the morning of the explosion.
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When we called Mexico City, we received a much more cooperative response from ATF officials there.
Academic text (2000) -
In 2002, Congress transferred this authority to the Director of the ATF in coordination with the Attorney General of the United States.
Academic text (2016) -
Today it is my very great privilege and pleasure to introduce Andrew Goldstone, ATF in this course.
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Both sides were being professionally courteous in this case, and ATF had so far been forthcoming.
Fiction book (1995) -
On August 30, 2010, the ATF answered a series of questions in a letter regarding non-restricted AR-15 pistols.
Academic text (2016) -
The Branch Davidian Compound near Waco was the stage of a 51-day standoff between the church members, the ATF, and the FBI in 1993.
Synonyms
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A U.S. government agency that enforces laws about alcohol, tobacco, guns, explosives, and arson
Surface Forms
Morphology
ATF = Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (opaque) = A + T + F
ATF is an initialism formed from the initial letters of a multiword name; the letters themselves do not transparently convey the agency's meaning to learners.
Etymology
ATF is a short name made from the first letters of 'Alcohol', 'Tobacco', 'Firearms' and 'Explosives', so the name itself reminds you what it deals with. That's why ATF refers to the U.S. agency that enforces laws about alcohol, tobacco, guns and explosives.