The toy Denix British STEN MK II non-firing replica machinegun. (Photo courtesy of Denix.) By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The first time ATF Firearm Enforcement Officer Jeffrey Bodell...

Kosei Ohno is founder of the Virgin Islands Safe Gun Owners, (VISGO). (Photo courtesy of Kosei Ohno). By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Editor’s note: As someone who has...

Patrick "Tate" Adamiak By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project OPINION—Brian J. Samuels served as the criminal chief of the U.S. Justice Department’s Eastern Virginia office for nearly two decades,...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. (Photo from Florida Attorney General’s Office.) By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Given how he has restored the Second Amendment closer to the Founders’...

Patrick "Tate" Adamiak By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Congresswoman Jen Kiggans along with Congressmen Eli Crane, Eric Burlison, Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S., Rob Bresnahan, Jr., and Daniel Webster...

(Photo-illustration from licensed Shutterstock account). By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the last newspaper where I worked, regularly provided outstanding journalism until Gannett bought it in...

Marianna Mitchem By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Not too long ago, investigative reporters had to find their own information when they took on a story. Getting data was...

(Photo-illustration from licensed Shutterstock account). By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project I haven’t been to a Publix grocery store since I learned that the massive southeastern grocery store chain...

Patrick "Tate" Adamiak By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Patrick Tate Adamiak is starting his fourth year of a 20-year federal prison sentence even though he broke no law...

Patrick "Tate" Adamiak By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project ATF Director Rob Cekada recently acknowledged that the 20-year prison sentence brought by charges his agency presented to the U.S....

By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project United States Congressman Rob Bresnahan is a young newly elected Republican serving Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District, which is located in the northeastern portion...

(Lee’s note: Tate Adamiak recently wrote a letter to ATF’s new Director, Rob Cekada. Here it is, completely unedited. Tate makes some great points.) May 8, 2026 If I could...

Patrick "Tate" Adamiak By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Sometime Monday morning, prison guards had planned to take inmate Tate Adamiak, stuff him in the back of a van...