(Anchorage, Alaska) – Attorney General Treg Taylor joined with 21 other attorneys general in opposing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) proposed rule to require federal registration of handguns equipped with stabilizing braces. The new rule, if it takes effect, would reclassify such handguns as “short-barreled rifles,” and subject them to the stringent […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Attorney General Treg Taylor Monday brought action in Superior Court seeking clarification from the court on whether, despite the failed effective date of the recently passed budget bill HB 69, money can be spent to keep state services open on July 1, 2021, the start of the fiscal year. “When there is a […]
(Kotzebue, Alaska) – On Monday, June 21, 2021, Peter Vance Wilson pleaded guilty to first degree murder and first degree sexual abuse of a minor stemming from the September 6, 2018 murder of Ashley Johnson Barr in Kotzebue, Alaska. The State and Mr. Wilson entered into a plea agreement prior to Mr. Wilson’s change of plea. […]
