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Educational Updates for FFLs
Zero Tolerance Protection: How to Make Corrections (Correctly)
Let’s face it – we all make mistakes. But let’s also admit some mistakes have worse consequences than others. For FFLs, those mistakes could cost firearm dealers and manufacturers their licenses, especially...
Zero Tolerance Protection: The Cost of Falsifying Records
“The truth doesn't cost you anything, but a lie could cost you everything.” While some lies can genuinely be harmless, lying as a federal firearms licensee is always a bad idea. As an FFL, lying to the ATF...
Zero Tolerance Protection: Transferring Firearms Before & After 30 Days
In an ideal world, firearm transactions would be completed in the minimum number of days legally permitted. However, that’s not always the case. After all, life happens. Sometimes customers start a...
Zero Tolerance Protection: How to Respond to NICS Responses
If a firearm buyer or transferee is not a prohibited person under ATF regulations and does not have a qualifying NICS exemption, FFLs may proceed with a background check. Dealers may either call in or submit...
Zero Tolerance Protection: Exemptions to NICS Background Checks
Last month, more than 2.4 million NICS background checks were conducted by FFLs across the U.S. However, when adjusted for permit checks and rechecks, July’s total was closer to 1.23 million – according to...
Zero Tolerance Protection: Don’t Forget a Background Check
Once a firearm buyer or transferee has completed their ATF Form 4473, the dealer will review the paper or electronic document for both accuracy and completeness. So long as the individual is not a prohibited...
Ranking the Best States for Gun Owners in 2022
For the last decade, consumer firearms publication Guns & Ammo has published an annual ranking of the ‘Best States for Gun Owners’ based on gun-related politics. This year’s rankings, again written by...
Zero Tolerance Protection: Who Not to Sell Firearms To
As a firearms dealer, you never know who may walk through your doors. After all, guns are purchased by people of all ages, genders, races, ethnicities, and political backgrounds. However, that doesn’t mean...
Zero Tolerance Protection: Firearm Transfers to Prohibited Persons
When President Joe Biden announced a comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence last year, the administration identified the flow of firearms used to commit crime as the root cause. To reduce such crime,...