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Educational Updates for FFLs
Zero Tolerance Protection: What Are Willful Violations?
The target of the Biden administration’s new zero tolerance policy, “willful” violations put public safety as risk and are grounds for FFL revocation, but “willful” has never carried a clear definition in the...
How to Report Firearm Theft/Loss as an FFL
Operating a firearms business means handling and keeping track of serialized inventory. Every day, tens of thousands of firearms are manufactured, shipped, acquired, sold, transferred, and taken in for...
Zero Tolerance Protection: What Does Biden’s Policy Mean for FFLs?
Zero tolerance is defined as a policy giving the most severe punishment possible to every person who commits a crime or breaks a rule or law. Under the Biden administration’s policy targeting “rogue gun...
Orchid Zero Tolerance Protection
In June 2021, the Biden administration announced a new, comprehensive strategy to combat gun violence and other violent crimes. Taking aim at “rogue gun dealers,” the plan would establish a zero tolerance...
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How to Protect Your FFL from Biden’s ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Policy [Webinar]
On July 29, 2022, Orchid VP of Regulatory Services and attorney at FFL Law, Phil Milks, led a webinar focused on the Biden administration’s 'zero tolerance' policy being utilized to revoke firearms licenses...
Integrated Point-of-Sale: The Center of Your Retail FFL
For a minute, think back to elementary school science – specifically, the solar system. At the center of the solar system is the sun, encircled by planets. In addition to providing light and heat needed to...
Multiple Sale Reports: Types, Trends & Compliance
In addition to regulating the manufacture, import, sale, and transfer of firearms, the ATF is also responsible for targeting, investigating, and recommending prosecution of those who participate in criminal...
ATF Processing eForms 4 in 100 Days
Earlier this year, we reported the first ATF eForm 4 applications filed since the ATF eForms system was updated were being approved in 90 days or less, with user-submitted data averaging under 60 days....
ATF Compliance Inspection Update: Q2 2022
Now past the halfway point of 2022, we find ourselves in the heat of summer. For some FFLs across the country, that may mean slower sales, but for the firearms industry’s regulatory agency, it’s business as...