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Educational Updates for FFLs
Manufacturer Firearms in Transit to the NRA Annual Convention
If you are a manufacturer of firearms with a booth display at the NRA annual convention in Houston, don’t forget to read ATF Ruling 2010-1. The ATF Ruling discusses two scenarios pertinent to gun shows....
NICS on the Numbers, Practically Speaking
Here’s some NICS on the numbers from the latest NICS newsletter: 953,613 NICS checks were received the week of 12/17/2012-12/23/2012, making it the highest volume week; 177,710 NICS checks were received...
Serials and Three-Legged Stools
It may be cliché that the devil’s in the details, but when it comes to proper firearms markings, the cliché is the simple truth. If you’re a manufacturer of firearms, to ensure your compliance with...
Before that Firearm or Ammunition Leaves Your Hands
All Federal Firearms Licensees should be aware that there are prohibited categories of buyers of firearms and ammunition. If we tell you there are nine categories of prohibited buyers of firearms and...
Firearms Trafficking
In the first part of this blog, we used a recent Congressional Research Service report as a springboard into the question of how firearms can end up going from the legal stream of commerce into illegal use or...
The “Straw Purchaser,” Diverting Firearms from the Lawful Stream of Commerce
For months, we’ve been listening to a debate around “legal gun owners” and “lawful gun activity” as differentiated from “criminals” and “illegal gun use.” Is it really as black and white as two opposing...
Best Practices for Inventory Control à la ATF
The two March 2013 ATF FFL Newsletters were packed with details to print-out and spend time considering in relationship to your current policies and practices. Heading up this to-do list for FFLs is the...
Making Corrections on Form 4473 and e-Form 4473
How to Make ATF Form 4473 Corrections Updated according to ATF guidance in September, 2015 In 2013 the ATF released an “FFL Newsletter” which provided guidance on correcting ATF Form 4473 - "Clarification to...
Congress Dictates Appropriations Details Pertinent to Manufacturers
You may have missed this one or it may have been sufficiently technical to elude you, so on this very wonky, but very pertinent snippet of the federal government in action, we’re going to pull it apart and...