ATF Alert to FFLs and NFA Dealers in Advance of Hurricane Irma
You may have read our earlier post regarding gun laws in Florida in advance or Hurricane Irma's landfall. Of particular note were Bennet Richt's warnings concerning NFA items carried across state lines. The ATF...
The US Now Has More Than 400 Million Privately Owned Firearms
The number of private firearms in the United States continues to soar. According to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, (ATF) figures just released, the number of firearms added to the private stock...
Mossberg 590 Shockwave, “Non-NFA Firearms” Legal in Texas Beginning September 1
Thanks to the byzantine regulations that define what guns are and are not legal for Americans to own, there's a classification of gats that fall into a sort of legal limbo. As they're technically...
BREAKING: Silencer Shop Form 4 Barcodes Slash NFA Wait Times
With support from Dead Air Armament and GEMTECH, Silencer Shop created software that digitizes all ATF Form 4 information into a single barcode. Instead of NFA inspectors having to manually enter everything on a physical...
Firearms Concierge: Machine Gun Madness
I was out to lunch recently when I got a call. Not wanting to deal, I sent it to voicemail and listened to the message. The caller was someone I'd met at the...
ATF Starts Instant Approval of Dealer-to-Dealer NFA Transfers
These days you can walk into almost any gun store and find silencers in stock. Just a few years ago that wasn't the case. You needed to order a silencer from a distributor and...
ATF Gun Tracing Van – A Federal Boondoogle?
"The ATF is building a second gun tracing van and deploying it to Baltimore later this summer," our Bloomberg-funded friends at The Trace report. "When a ballistics van was parked there in May, it...
The Responsibility and Costs of Selling a “Crime Gun”
In our Quote of the Day post yesterday, we noted the response of Tampa Arms Company owner Thom Hauser when asked about the consequences of selling a gun to someone who later uses it...
President Trump Sends 20 ATF Agents to Chicago: Gun Tweet of the Day
Crime and killings in Chicago are "epidemic"? Perhaps not the best choice of words, given that gun control advocates want people to think of "gun violence" as a "public health crisis" that requires civilian...
Quote of the Day: What The ATF Wants You to Know About Todd Kohlhepp’s...
"As a convicted felon, Kohlhepp could not legally purchase firearms. In 1987, was convicted of kidnapping in Arizona and sentenced to 15 years in prison. But he likely turned to one of several...
NFA Paperwork Processing Time Set to Drop – Buy Now!
Early last year, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (and Really Big Fires) finalized their new regulations regarding fingerprinting for National Firearms Act trust members, and other changes to NFA paperwork processing.
There...
ATF: NFA Records Are Unreliable, Often Missing
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, we now have a look into the ATF's own employees' opinions on whether the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Records database -- the repository for all...