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How to Prepare for a Serial Number Audit

How to Prepare for a Serial Number Audit

For any business that manufactures, distributes or sells physical products, performing regular inventory audits is critical to maintaining balanced finances and operations. For FFLs, there’s also the added responsibility of maintaining ATF compliance. All federal...
Share Your Expertise at the 2023 Firearms Industry Conference

Share Your Expertise at the 2023 Firearms Industry Conference

HARTFORD, CT (November 16, 2022) – Orchid LLC and Williams Mullen’s Firearms Industry Group are calling for firearms industry professionals to lead educational sessions at the 2023 Firearms Industry Conference (FIC), to be held in Atlanta, May 1-3, 2023. The...
What We Know from 1 Year of Monthly ATF Inspection Reports

What We Know from 1 Year of Monthly ATF Inspection Reports

This time last year, ATF published its first monthly firearms compliance inspection report. Satisfying a new Biden administration requirement to provide greater transparency in its regulation of FFLs through more detailed inspection reporting, previous reporting had...
Zero Tolerance Protection Recap

Zero Tolerance Protection Recap

Over the last two months, we’ve written about the Biden administration’s zero tolerance policy, increased ATF activities, and stricter corrective action against FFLs. Throughout our Zero Tolerance Protection series, we’ve shared insight into laws, rules and...