Publications

What's In This Issue: Changes in Headquarters Personnel; Change of Ownership versus Change of Control; Storage of Shock Tube with Detonators; ATF Ruling—Placement and Visibility of Containers in Magazines; Inspecting Magazines; Type-5 Locking Requirements; Rubberized Lining in Type-3 and Type-4 Magazines; Reviewing Variances; Fireworks and Fires in the United States; Theft Discovery and Reporting; Orange Book Errata

Published/Revised: June 30, 2010

What's In This Issue: New Chief of Explosives Industry Programs; New Web Pages; Fireworks Safety and Storage; Illegal Explosives; Fireworks Recordkeeping Variance; Updated Fireworks Q & As; Simplified License and Permit Structure; Change of Control; Scanned or E-Mailed Licenses; Igniter Storage with Rocket Motors in Attached Garages; Locking Issues; Bullet Resistance for Type-2 Indoor Storage; Detonator Boxes; Explosives Thefts

Published/Revised: June 30, 2009

What's In This Issue: Changes in the Arson and Explosives Programs Division; Director's Speech at the ISEE National Conference; New Federal Explosives Licensing Center; Reporting Changes in Responsible Persons and Employees Authorized to Possess Explosive Materials; Reporting Procedures for Explosives Transactions; Storage of More Than 300,000 Pounds of Explosives; ATF Inspections

Published/Revised: June 30, 2005

What's In This Issue: A Message from the Chief, Arson & Explosives Programs Division; New Director, Deputy Director of ATF Announced; Lewis P. Raden Named Assistant Director; Changes in the Arson and Explosives Programs Division; Volatile Organic Compounds; Day Boxes; Manufacture of Binary Explosives; Indoor Storage Magazine Locking Requirements; ATF Attends Conferences; Thefts and Loss Reporting Requirements; New Annual List of Explosives Published; Theft of Explosives as Reported to ATF

Published/Revised: June 30, 2004

What's In This Issue: A Message from the Chief, Arson & Explosives Programs; International Explosives Assistance; Philadelphia Field Division Bombing Incidents; Black Powder Sales; Barricades; Safety, Storage, and Illegal Devices; Special Events Fireworks Variances; First Quarter 2001 Explosives Thefts; Address and Phone Number Corrections

Published/Revised: June 30, 2001

What's In This Issue: Computerized Recordkeeping Systems; Letters to the Editor; Items of Interest; Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; National Repository of Arson and Explosive Incidents; ATF and the Internet; Explosives Security; Airbags; Theatrical Flash Powder

Published/Revised: June 30, 1997

What's In This Issue: Updated Safety & Security Publication; Structures Used for Indoor Storage; Firework Processes and Manufacturing; Distribution Dates; Identification of Explosive Materials; Q&As; How to read an Explosives License or Permit Number; List of Active Explosives Rulings

Published/Revised: July 31, 2017

What's In This Issue: Meet ATF’s New Director, B. Todd Jones; New Deputy Division Chief; Contingency and Shared Storage; Binary Explosives: Checking Laws; Alternate Identification Markings; Black Powder Lifters; More on Hoods; Underground Storage Reminder; Explosives Disposal; ATF and the Interagency Committee on Explosives; ATF Hosts QRA Workshop; Questions and Answers; Licensee/Permittee Percentages; Licensee/Permittee Population by Type

Published/Revised: January 31, 2014

What's In This Issue: A Message from the Chief, Arson & Explosives Programs Division; The New Orange Book; Variances; User Permits and User-Limited Permits; Fireworks Table of Distance Issues; Verbal Opinions vs. "Have-it-in-Writing"; Plastic Explosives; Thefts or Losses of Explosives; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - Markings on Imported Explosives; Personnel Changes Within the Arson and Explosives Programs Division; International Explosives Assistance; Summary of Explosives Thefts

Published/Revised: January 31, 2001

What's In This Issue: A Message from the Chief, Arson & Explosives Programs Division; Changes in Arson & Explosives Programs Division; ISEE, APA, to Host Annual Conferences in February; Change of Ownership Licensing Requirements; Magazine Reporting Requirements; Storage Requirements for Delays & Detonators; Variance Requests Notice; Daily Magazine Transaction Summary; Fugitive Corner; Fourth Quarter 2001 Explosive Thefts

Published/Revised: February 28, 2002

What's In This Issue: FEID Personnel Changes; ATF Field Division Realignment; 27 CFR, Part 555 - Technical Changes; Final Rule Creates Part 771; FEL eZ Check; Preventing Explosives Losses; E-Regulations That Work For You; ATF Explosives Detection Canines; New Mailing Address; Final Rule Removes Reference Note; Explosives Violations; Q&As; Licensee/Permittee Population; Submit a Tip; Explosives Thefts

Published/Revised: December 31, 2019

What's In This Issue: New Deputy Assistant Director; Explosives in Transit Web Page; Black Powder Open Letter; How to Address a Loss; Pyrotechnic Hobby Fuse Exemption; Seismic Exploration and Geophysical; Operation Requirements; Inventories and Records; No. 8 Blasting Caps; Acquiring, Changing, or Discontinuing an Explosives Business; New Publication; ATF Employees Receive ISEE President’s Award

Published/Revised: December 31, 2014

What's In This Issue: New Explosives Industry Programs Branch Chief; ATF Explosives Industry Meeting in Washington; ATF Ruling 2012-5 Type 4 Wood Floors; Signage and Placarding at Regulated Mining Sites; Explosives Violations; Applying Tables of Distances at 555.218 and 555.220; Type 19 Licensed Activities; Recording Packaged Displays in the DSMT; Questions and Answers; EIPB at the AFSL Display Fireworks Seminar in China

Published/Revised: December 31, 2012

What's In This Issue: New Acting Director of ATF; New Publications; Open Letter—Definition of Display Fireworks; ATF Ruling 2011-3, Alternate Locks Authorized for Explosives Magazines; Nonsparking Metals; Attended “Day Box” Reminders; Smokeless Powder Exemption; Binary Exploding Targets; Binary Explosives Security; Certain Pest Control Devices Exempted as “Articles Pyrotechnic”; Hobby Pyrotechnics in a Regulated Environment; Explosives Licensing and Transfers; Reporting RPs and EPs; U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Yearbook

Published/Revised: December 31, 2011

What's In This Issue: Updated Safety & Security Publication; New Chief of Explosives Industry Programs Branch; New Web Page; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; ATF Ruling—Storage of Loaded Perforating Gun Assemblies; Dosed Gas Systems; Federal Explosives Exemptions for U.S. Federal, State, and Local Government Agencies; Fireworks Storage Bins; Marking Requirements and Transfers of Damaged or Defective Display Fireworks; Federal Explosives Regulations Pertaining to Fuses and Fuzes; Activities Conducted at Remote Storage Facilities; Note to Explosives Importers or User Permittees Importing Explosive Materials; Requirements for Marking Packages; Notification of Explosives Magazine Changes; Faxed or Scanned Copies of Licenses and Permits; Key Federal Agencies With Oversight Over Explosives; Explosives Thefts

Published/Revised: December 31, 2010

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

Published/Revised: December 27, 2019

What’s in This Issue:  Customer Service Standards; Reminder: Top 10 Frequently Asked Firearms Questions and Answers; Receive Firearms Industry News; Electronic Devices Used to Verify Change of Address; Government Issued Documents Bearing an Incorrect Zip Code; PCS Orders and Military Dependents Purchasing Firearms; Licensed Manufacturer’s Registration; Requirement with the Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Control (DDTC); Firearms Lost or Stolen from Interstate Shipments; Guidance to FFLs Affected by Flooding and Other Natural Disasters; Ethnicity and Race on the ATF Form 4473; Firearms Shipments via Common or Contract Carrier; Out-of-Business Procedures; Out-of-Business with Succession; Residence as a Licensed Business Premises; New Move in EPS; Who to Contact with your Firearms Related Questions; FBI NICS news

Published/Revised: November 30, 2012

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. 

Published/Revised: December 30, 2002

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. 

Published/Revised: August 30, 2004

What’s in this Issue: FFL Advisory – Attempted Thefts of Firearms; NFA Trust “41F”; Theft/Loss in Transit Ruling; Assisting Customers Who Have Been Denied or Delayed on a Firearm Background Check; Brokering Firearms for Exportation; Out of Business Procedures for Electronic Records; Gun Show Transfers: Where and How to record in records; “Occasional” Importation; eForms — Form 6

Published/Revised: September 29, 2016

What's In This Issue: Information on New ATF Form 4473; Sales of Firearms to Licensed Collectors of Curios and Relics; NICS e-Check Transfer Process; Semiautomatic Assault Weapon (SAW) BAN Questions and Answers; 2005 President's Day Weekend 24-Hour Outage; Muzzle Loading Firearms; Providing a Perspective Transferee the NICS Transaction Number; and more. 

Published/Revised: February 28, 2005

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

Published/Revised: August 30, 2005

What’s in This Issue: Customer Service Standards; Active Federal Firearms License (FFL) Records; Best Practices; ATF Outreach Activities; New Moves in EPS; FBI/NICS News

Published/Revised: September 30, 2013

What's In This Issue: Adjudicated “Mentally Defective”; Prohibited Persons and Restoration of Gun Rights; Serial Numbers; FBI Flyer: Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Firearms Shops and Ranges; Marking of Conversion Devices by Manufacturers; Prohibition on Obliterating, Removing or Changing the Markings on an NFA Firearm; Address for Reports of Multiple Sale or Other Disposition of Pistols and Revolvers Address; Transferring Firearms from One A&D Record to Another; C&R Licensees: Out-of-Business Requirements; Are You Moving; Most Recent Open Letters; On-Site Responsible Persons; Guidance to FFLs Affected by Flooding and Other Natural Disasters; Looking for Past Newsletters; FBI/NICS News

Published/Revised: September 30, 2011

What's In This Issue: Aliens Buying Ammunition; Sales of Firearms to Licensed Collectors; Tribal Identification Does Not Meet Brady Law Requirements; Change in Business Structure That Requires a New License; Transfer of a National Firearms Act Firearm to a Corporation or Other Legal Entity; Clarification on Multiple Sales Reports; Nonlicensee State- to-State Transfer; Customer Service Enhancements at the Federal Firearms Licensing Center; Aliens Buying Firearms: A Four-Step Guide Following the Four Steps and Know the Exceptions; Providing Copies of Federal Licensees to Unlicensed Persons; FFL Newsletter Abbreviations; Availability of ATF Publication 3312.8 Personal Firearms Record; Achieving Compliance with the Gun Control Act

Published/Revised: November 28, 2008