Attorney General Merrick Garland Announces Significant Firearms Trafficking Enforcement Action

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 01: Software uses advanced imaging software to match firearms shell casings on computers inside one of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive's (ATF) National Integrated Ballistic Information Network mobile tracing van in the courtyard of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building on April 01, 2022 in Washington, DC. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that 12 people were indicted, including three U.S. Army soldiers from Fort Campbell, on federal firearms and money laundering charges in a scheme to move straw-purchased guns from Tennessee and Kentucky to the Gangster Disciples gang in Chicago. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)