ATF Press Releases
unavailable Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Department of Justice
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What this source is
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, within the Justice Department, enforces federal firearms and explosives law. Its press-release index carries enforcement operations and regulatory announcements, typically a few items per week.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
atf-news- Agency / parent organization
- Department of Justice
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- unavailable
- Tier
- 2
- URL (home)
- https://www.atf.gov/news/press-releases (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: HTTP 403 to honestly-identified automated client (WAF). Recorded, not evaded. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: atf-email (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged).
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending viability check)
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.
All time
No requests to www.atf.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.