ATF Adding More NFA Branch Staff, Reducing Backlog, Re-Designing eForms System. Again.
TTAG has just received the following email from the ATF about the current status of the National Firearms Act branch, the group responsible for approving the paperwork needed to own fun stuff like silencers...
SIG SAUER Sues ATF For Calling Its Muzzle Brake a Silencer
Without a doubt, the SIG SAUER MPX rifle is one of the coolest things to be unveiled in the last couple years. It's a pistol caliber carbine that has all of the same controls...
Newly Revealed ATF Letter Explains Why Ares (and EP’s) 80% Lowers Are Illegal
Ares Armor sells EP Armory 80% lower receivers. Well, they sold them. We reported that Ares Armor was raided by the ATF (even after a restraining order was issued against such action) for selling...
BREAKING: ATF Confirms Firing an AR-15 Pistol From the Shoulder Using SIG’s Brace is...
SIG SAUER are the guys who make the now infamous pistol arm brace for AR-15 pistols that looks remarkably like a stock. And works kinda like a stock. A really, really crappy stock. Anyway,...
Why the ATF’s eForms System Sucks
By Christopher Cicchitelli
As a fervent Second Amendment supporter and the founder of a technology company, I've followed the ATF eForms story with great personal interest. It showed great promise at first, cutting wait times...
UPDATE: ATF Issues Letter About Multiple Uploads, Silencer Shop Already In Compliance
As we reported, the ATF seems to be singling out the activities of Austin's Silencer Shop as one of the culprits for their e-Forms website being... well... terrible. We posted the email earlier this...
BREAKING: ATF eForms Broken. Again. Still. More.
Good afternoon:
You are in receipt of this email because you are a registered user of ATF eForms. Please review the attached Urgent Notice relating to an important issue we are experiencing with the eForms...
Silencer Shop: The ATF Is Blaming Us for Their Crappy Website
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOzi60nGN0s
Mark from Austin's Silencer Shop is a downright pleasant fellow. Talking to him yesterday afternoon after our story posted about the rumored ATF cease and desist letter that's coming down the pike, he sounded...
GRNC Objects to ATF’s Proposed Expansion of “Mental Health Institution” Definition
March 26, 2014
Mr. George M. Fodor
Room 6.N-S23, Enforcement Programs and Services
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
U.S. Department of Justice
99 New York Avenue, NE
Washington, DC, 20226
Re: Docket No. ATF 51P
GRNC comment on proposed...
ATF to Halt NFA Batch Processing, Re-Design eForms System
A few days ago we reported on the assertion by the ATF and a couple of FFL holders that one of the reasons the ATF's new NFA paperwork processing system is almost completely unusable...
ATF Jumped the Gun on “Silencer”
By Dan McCue
Uncle Sam arbitrarily classified a new device as a firearm silencer without sufficient review or a decent explanation why, a federal judge's somewhat scathing opinion states. "In any agency review case, a...
Ares Armor Makes Lemonade With “BATFE Inspected Quality” LPKs
The ATF's jackbooted and illegal raid on Ares Armor has made headlines for days, but it doesn't seem to have intimidated the National City, CA manufacturer one bit. Instead of bowing and scraping to...