The ATF can enter your home with a warrant but without a warrant they cannot legally enter your home without consent.
But most often when the ATF want to enter your home they already have a warrant to enter your home and if they do you have to let them in or they will arrest you and force entry.
The ATF works to protect the public from crimes that involve explosives, firearms, arson, regulates the lawful commerce in firearms and explosives, the diversion of tobacco products and provides worldwide support to public safety, law enforcement and industry partners.
The ATF is controlled by the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury.
The weaknesses of the ATF is that the ATF do not consistently collect the information needed to track outcomes and assess effectiveness of external partnerships and interactions.
Also ongoing challenges in working with external law enforcement partners and plans to address the challenges are not documented consistently.
ATF agents are federal agents that are primarily responsible for enforcing and administering criminal and regulatory provisions of the federal laws that pertain to guns and destructive devices such as arson, explosives and bombs etc.
The ATF does have police powers and can make arrests.
ATF agents are special agents like FBI, DEA, IRS have powers of arrest.
An ATF agent can arrest you when they have a legal reason to make an arrest just like regular police can.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is the federal agency primarily responsible for administering and enforcing the criminal and regulatory provisions of the federal laws pertaining to destructive devices (bombs), explosives, and arson.
Specifically, ATF Special Agents have lead investigative authority on any federal crime committed with a firearm or explosive, as well as investigative authority over regulatory referrals and cigarette smuggling.
Under the United States Constitution, only the Legislative branch of the government can create laws.
The ATF is an agency of the Justice Department, which is part of the Executive branch, which cannot create laws.
As sworn law enforcement officers, special agents are authorized to carry weapons and make arrests for federal offenses against the United States.
The term "any other weapon" means any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination shotgun and rifle.
On January 31, 2023, the ATF published a politically driven ruling which noted that attaching a pistol brace to a rifle with a barrel under 16 inches would make that firearm an NFA short-barreled rifle (and thus subject to additional regulation and tax).