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Nitrocellulose Update - Addendum to August 31 Newsletter ATF’s June 2016 Explosives Industry Newsletter included a brief discussion of Nitrocellulose, and attempted to clarify the circumstances...
The frontier of U.S. firearms and ammunition manufacturing lies abroad. Some manufacturers don’t want to take operations outside the United States due to concerns about quality control, logistics...
Under the ITAR, technical data includes any information “required for the design, development, production, manufacture, assembly, operation, repair, testing, maintenance or modification” of a...
Compliance with the ITAR is a challenge for companies in the firearms and ammunition business because its rules are not intuitive. The best way to know how to comply with the ITAR is to be trained...
Five Common Firearm ITAR / Firearm Export Violations If you’re a business that manufactures or exports defense articles like firearms and ammunition, you’re subject to the rules of the ITAR, the...
What is ITAR and How Does it ImpactMy FFL or Firearm Exports? The ITAR are federal regulations with which any American company that manufactures firearms or ammunition, or sells them...
FFL ATF Ruling 2016-1, FFL ATF Ruling 2016-2 and FFL ATF Ruling 2016-3 On Monday, May 2nd, at the Firearms Industry Compliance Conference (FICC), the ATF announced the release of three new Industry...
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(Hartford, CT, April 27, 2016) — Orchid Advisors, the Firearm Industry’s Trusted Compliance and Operations Experts, and former Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
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