Firearms Industry Newsletter

What's In This Issue: A Message from the Director of ATF; Tracing Firearms for Law Enforcement; Frequently Asked Questions

What's In This Issue: The Director's Column; Curios, Relics Classification Expanded; Stolen Guns Threaten Everyone; Place of Business; For Your Customer; Tracing Works; Firearms Trace Results; News You Can Use; Toll-Free Service Available

What's In This Issue: A Message to the FFL from Stephen Higgins - Director of ATF; Firearms License Streamlined; Licensee Q's and A's; Firearms Seminars Look Like a Hit; News You Can Use; New Organization - Office of Regulatory Enforcement; ATF Spotlights; ATF Reorganization

What's In This Issue: Gun Shows Revisited; News You Can Use; Armed Forces Dual Residency Clarified; Licensee Q and A’s

What's In This Issue: Out-Of-State And Mail Order Sales; “Straw Purchases" Of Firearms; Firearms Transaction Records on Title II Transfers; ATF Distribution Center; Armor Piercing Ammunition – Update; Change of Control; Form 4473 Omissions and Discrepancies; Sales to Underaged Persons

What's In This Issue: Facsimile Transmitted Copies of Forms and Other Documents; FFL Toll-Free Information; Sales Agents; Falsified Federal Firearms Licenses; Out-of-State FFLs; Manufacturer's Annual Report - Form 4483-A; Letters to the Editor; Excise Tax; Thefts of Dealer's Records

What's In This Issue: MP-83 and MP-22 Pistols; Significant Court Cases; Firearms and Explosives Division Personnel Changes; Compliance Inspection Problems; Certified Copies of Licenses; Excise Tax- Update; Gun Show Guidelines; Permit to Carry Concealed Weapons; Letters to the Editor; Special Tax Refunds; What is ITAR?

What's In This Issue: Excise Tax; License Revocations; Multiple Sales Reports; Crime Control Act of 1990; Repairs of NFA Weapons; Discontinuance of Business - Chain Store Operations; Change or Correction of License; Transfers of National Firearms Act Firearms; Discontinuance of Operations as an NFA Dealer, Manufacturer, or Importer; Change in Business Structure as an NFA Dealer, Manufacturer or Importer; Bureau Headquarters Move; Compliance Inspection Program; FFL Lists; FFL Advisory

What's In This Issue: "Straw Purchases" of Firearms; Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax - History of the Pittman-Robertson Act; Payment of Excise Taxes by Gunsmiths; Registration for Tax-Free Sales; Customer's Tax Liability for Reloaded Ammunition; California - Law Change Advisory; Transfer or Duplication of Serial Numbers on National Firearms Act Firearms; Markings on Firearms; Storage of NFA Firearms; Reminder to NFA Weapons Licensees; Sales of Firearms to Law Enforcement Officers; ATF Hotline; ATF Western Region Reorganization; Supreme Court Rules on Thompson/Center Arms Case; Request for Assistance - New Castle Indiana Police Department

What's In This Issue: Manufacturer's Annual Report - Form 4483 A; Change of Address; Importation of Arms from Certain Countries; Firearms and Explosives Division Personnel Changes; Extension of Term on Import Permits; Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax; Firearms Sales to Canadian Citizens; Manufacture of "Any Other Weapon" Firearms; Renewal of Your License; List of Armor Piercing Ammunition; Interstate Transportation of Personally Owned Firearms

What's In This Issue:  ATF Personnel Changes; Electronic Storage of ATF Form 4473s; ATF Procedure 2017-1; ATF Forms 5; ATF Form 4473: Clarification on Disqualifiers related to Military Service; Electronic Signatures on ATF Forms; NFA Forms: Common Errors; ATF FFL Alert System; Replacement Copies of NFA Tax Paid Transfer Forms; FFL Renewals (Timely Renewing/Common Mistakes); Updated Form 7; Clarification on Federal Firearms Licensing Center (FFLC) Addresses; Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Exportation Report (AFMER); NFA/Additional Paper Processing Times

What’s in This Issue: SHOT Show 2015; New Appointments in Enforcement Programs and Services; ATF Outreach Activities; Organizational Change for Firearms Technology Branch; Automation of CBP Form I-94; Return of Firearms Received for Appraisal; Revised Federal Firearms License (FFL) Renewal Application (ATF Form 8); Reminders: Reporting Deceased Responsible Persons to the Federal Firearms Licensing Center and Submission of Original and Renewal Applications; Use of Internal Control Numbers on ATF Form 6 Part I; Reminder: Reporting Multiple Sales of Handguns or Certain Rifles; Who to Contact with your Firearms Related Questions

What's In This Issue: Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act; The Net; New Faces; Address Changes; Improving Firearms Security; Fingerprints; Letters of Authorization; Classification of Gas/Flare Guns With Anti-Personnel Ammunition as Destructive Devices; Processing Applications and Notices Associated With National Firearms Act Weapons Transactions; Multiple Sale Form; ATF Distribution Center; Gun Shows

What's In This Issue: Legislative Issues; New Residency Requirements for Purchasers; Assault Weapon Receivers; Governmental Exemption to Semiautomatic Assault Weapon Ban; Meet the New Customer Service Specialist; Going Out of Business; Wallet Guns; ATF's Stolen Firearms Program

What's In This Issue: National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS); New Firearms Transaction Record; Reporting Multiple Sales or Other Dispositions of Pistols and Revolvers; Age Restriction Reminder; Resolution of Modern Muzzle Loading Court Case; Firearms Sales to Foreign Nationals; National Firearms Act Information; Limited to Use as Sales Sample; Importing Information; Importation of Firearms for Display at Industry Trade Shows; FFL or Interstate Theft Procedures and Information; FFL Concerns and Alerts

What's In This Issue: Attorney General Ashcroft Appoints Carl J. Truscott as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; New Tennessee "Certificate for Driving" is Not an Acceptable Identification Document; Contiguous State - Part 2; Sales to Military Personnel Residency Verification; FFL EZ Check System; Retention Period for Importer and Manufacturer Records; Transportation of Firearms; and more. 

What's In This Issue: Certified Faxed Copies of Licenses; Native American Identification Cards; How to Report the Theft or Loss of a Firearm; Teen Gets Life in Prison in Murder of Inkster Gun Dealer; Five Indicted on Trafficking and Drug Charges; Dealers in Black Powder; Internet Sales of Firearms; and Non-Immigrant Aliens and Alternative

What's In This Issue: INS-Issued Alien Numbers and Admission Numbers; Change of Address Requires Amended License; "Contiguous State"; Distribution of Explosive Pest Control Devices at Gun Shows; Questions to the Editor; NICS Denials of Pawn Redemptions; Transfers to Aliens Under a Nonimmigrant Visa; Recording Firearms Serial Numbers; Russian Air Guns and Dummy Guns Manufactured with Prohibited Firearm Component Parts and/or Firearm Receivers; Providing Copies of ATF Form 4473 As Part of Coupon/Rebate Offers; Electronic Versions of ATF Form 4473; Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Information; and more. 

What's In This Issue: ATF Facts - Registered Firearms and Weapons

What's In This Issue: ATF Distribution Center; Canadian Firearms Issues; NICS and Returned Firearms Issues; Age Restrictions on Firearms Transactions; Modern Muzzleloading Issues; Secure Gun Storage Devices Amendment; Nonresident Alien Prohibited Person Category; Relief of Disability Information; Gun Shows and Events; Sales of Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Devices to Campus Police Departments; Sales of Semiautomatic Assault Weapons to Law Enforcement Officers; Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device Markings; Licensees Who Discontinue Business; Licensee Address and Mail Delivery Issues