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Under this guidance, ATF will not enforce the requirements for individuals to apply and receive ATF approval before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors (silencers), and certain other concealable firearms known in the law as “any other weapons.” ATF also will not enforce the NFA’s registration, tax-stamp or related requirements for those covered items. The $200 tax remains in place for machine guns and destructive devices. The guidance does not supersede state and local laws that restrict NFA firearms.
WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives today released an Open Letter and Frequently Asked Questions explaining how it will treat ownership, transfer, and transportation of the National Firearms Act firearms for which Congress eliminated the making and transfer taxes in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
WASHINGTON – A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives led Homeland Security Task Force investigation has resulted in federal indictments against 20 individuals, including five members of the GoodFellas criminal street gang and four convicted felons, on firearms and drug trafficking charges tied to the alleged theft of nearly 1,500 firearms from shipping facilities in Conley and Macon, Georgia.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The ATF Orange County Violent Crime Task Force arrested two multi-convicted felons on Oct. 2, after the duo committed the early morning robberies of two 7-Eleven stores in Los Angeles, following a spree of no less than 20 similar robberies and attempted robberies spanning back to no later than February.
NICS Alert Policy memo, dated October 2, 2026. This memo provides updates to the April 2025 NICS Alert Policy memo and should be utilized to detail the new process for entering NICS alerts. While the overall process is the same, NICS alerts are now automated through ATF’s Case Management System (CMS). The CMS will guide agents through each step of the workflow process.
WASHINGTON - Three members of the Unknown Vice Lords, a violent street gang in Memphis, Tennessee, were sentenced to a total of over 42 years in prison for conspiring and attempting to commit a gang-related murder and firearms violations.
WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives concluded the semi-annual meeting of the National Crime Gun Intelligence Governance Board last week in Jacksonville, Florida, marking a decade of leading the nation’s crime gun intelligence strategy.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and officers with the California Highway Patrol arrested Christian Laird, 34, of Los Angeles, on Sept. 30, 2026, on a federal indictment charging him with fentanyl trafficking and illegal firearms offenses.
The Firearms Commerce in the United States Report presents data drawn from a number of ATF reports and records in one comprehensive document.
HOUSTON – ATF and its law enforcement partners conducted a coordinated investigation that led to a 55‑year‑old man being sentenced to federal prison, Sept. 23, 2026, for burning a three‑story medical center under construction in Spring.
WASHINGTON – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, with support from the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested Natasha Renee Gibbs, 42, on Sept. 28, in Dallas, Texas, for her alleged role in illegally purchasing a firearm for convicted felon Terry Clark Hughes Jr. Hughes used that firearm during the April 29, 2024, shooting in Charlotte that killed multiple law enforcement officers.
This notice confirms that the FFLAlert notification announced on September 8, 2026, is an official and authorized ATF communication. ATF has upgraded its alert system to the BEACON/Everbridge platform to strengthen and streamline emergency and other critical communications with Federal Firearms and Explosives Licensees.
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