Report: ATF Is Transferring Hundreds Of Agents To FBI

The word on the street is that the big changes at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives will continue. According to CNN, hundreds of ATF agents are about to be transferred over to the FBI instead.

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The mainstream media report

There have been rumors of ATF agents shifting to the FBI, or perhaps seeing the whole agency rolled into the FBI, for weeks now, ever since the election of President Trump. Now, CNN is reporting that this is indeed going to happen. As per a story initially published on March 22, 2025:

“FBI Director Kash Patel, who also serves as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has outlined plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI, cutting ATF’s agents by more than a third, three people briefed on the plan told CNN… The move is expected to begin with the reassignment of a couple hundred ATF agents to border-related criminal enforcement duty as FBI agents, one person briefed on the matter said.”

Read the whole thing here. Note that it’s all unnamed sources in that story, but it seems unlikely that this is made up, as it is following a general pattern that we’ve seen since the change in the White House.

With a little over 2,500 agents currently working for the ATF, the move would be a huge impact on the agency, as about 40 percent of them would be transferred over to the FBI. It is also possible the remainder would be reassigned to other federal law enforcement agencies.