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Publications

ATF occasionally issues publications to inform the industries it regulates and the general public about the laws and regulations administered and enforced by ATF. These include guidebooks, newsletters, brochures, studies, and reports.

Document type Description Category
Report Firearms Trace Data: Missouri - 2010 [PDF - 1.36 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more. 

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Mississippi - 2010 [PDF - 1.39 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more. 

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Minnesota - 2010 [PDF - 1.35 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more.  

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Michigan - 2010 [PDF - 1.49 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more.  

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Massachusetts - 2010 [PDF - 1.45 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more. 

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Maryland - 2010 [PDF - 1.41 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more.  

Published/Revised:

Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Maine - 2010 [PDF - 1.37 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more.  

Published/Revised:

Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Louisiana - 2010 [PDF - 1.38 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more. 

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Alabama - 2010 [PDF - 1.35 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010, on firearms recovered and traced, firearm types, calibers, source states, time-to-crime rates, possessor age, top recovery locations and more.  

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Laboratories
Report Firearms Trace Data: Alabama - 2009 [PDF - 1.37 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009.

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Tennessee - 2009 [PDF - 1.38 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009.

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: Alaska - 2009 [PDF - 1.49 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009.

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Firearms
Report Firearms Trace Data: West Virginia - 2009 [PDF - 1.45 MB]

This report provides detailed firearms trace data to assist law enforcement with criminal investigations. It includes statistics from Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2009.

Published/Revised:

Firearms
Regulatory Final Rule - 02–9633 - Elimination of Application To Remove Tobacco Products From Manufacturer’s Premises for Experimental Purposes - April 19, 2002 [PDF - 36.83 KB]

This final rule eliminates the requirements that manufacturers of tobacco products apply to ATF to remove tobacco products from their factories in bond for experimental purposes and that they maintain the approved applications for their records. In place of these requirements, manufacturers of tobacco products will prepare and maintain records of tobacco products removed from their factories in bond for experimental purposes. In addition, this final rule defines ‘‘experimental purposes’’ under section 5704(a) of Title 26 of the United States Code.

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Alcohol & Tobacco
Regulatory 1969-59 - Gun show Sales at Non-Licensed Premises [PDF - 42.13 KB]

Firearms or ammunition may not be sold at gun shows by a licensed dealer, but orders may be taken under specified conditions.

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Firearms
Report 2012 - Firearms Commerce Report [PDF - 802.18 KB]

2012 - Firearms Commerce Report

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Firearms
Publication Project Gunrunner: The Southwest Border Initiative - ATF P 3317.6 [PDF - 7.8 MB]

Firearm trafficking is the movement of firearms from the legal to illegal marketplace. It is one of the most pressing problems in the firearms industry today. It reaches across U.S. borders, affecting other countries and U.S. citizens living abroad.

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Firearms
Regulatory Certification of Secure Gun Storage or Safety Devices - ATF Form 5300.42 [PDF - 47.44 KB]

Certification of Secure Gun Storage or Safety Devices - ATF Form 5300.42

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Firearms
Publication National Tracing Center (NTC) Division - eTrace: Internet-based Firearms Tracing and Analysis - ATF P 3312.9 [PDF - 899.26 KB]

 NTC - eTrace: Internet-based Firearms Tracing and Analysis

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Firearms
Regulatory ATF Rul. 79-7 - Firearms Transaction Record [PDF - 24.1 KB]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has been asked to state its position with regard to satisfactory identification of an unlicensed person intending to acquire a firearm from a licensee.

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Firearms
Regulatory ATF Rul. 79-7 - Firearms Transaction Record [PDF - 24.1 KB]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has been asked to state its position with regard to satisfactory identification of an unlicensed person intending to acquire a firearm from a licensee.

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Firearms
Regulatory T.D. ATF-413 - Final Rule - Technical Amendments - 99-22290 - Aug. 27, 1999 [TXT - 5.47 KB]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) administers regulations published in Title 27, Code of Federal Regulations. Theseregulations are updated April 1 of each year to incorporate new or revised regulations that were published by ATF in the Federal Register during the preceding year. ATF identified several amendments that are needed to provide clarity and uniformity to the regulations in 27 CFR.

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Workforce and Mission
Regulatory Rev. Rul. 69-309 - Importation by Members of the U.S. Armed Forces [PDF - 29.64 KB]

It has been found that a variation is necessary in the procedures which may be utilized by members of the U.S. Armed Forces returning to the United States who desire to import not more than three rifles or shotguns for their personal use, and not more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition therefor.

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Firearms
Regulatory ATF Rul. 2008-2 - Aug. 25, 2008 [PDF - 22.47 KB]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has received inquiries from members of the firearms industry about maintaining their required acquisition and disposition dealer’s records in computerized form rather than paper form.

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Firearms
Regulatory ATF Rul. 2007- 4 - June 26, 2007 [PDF - 14.61 KB]

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has received inquiries from members of the firearms industry for whom ATF has approved a variance permitting the maintenance of required acquisition and disposition records on computer. Most of these variances require licensees to periodically print a hard copy of the record and store the printout as part of their permanent records. Licensees have asked ATF whether they may download this information to portable data storage devices instead of printing out the information.

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Firearms
Last Updated: January 15, 2026

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