This is apparently the year of reclassification and reversals from the BATFE. Previously allowed “green tips” are going to be banned as “armor piercing” by eliminating it’s exemption: [Read More…]
A few days ago the BATFE sent out a letter stating that it was not legal to use an arm brace, such as the SIG SAUER Pistol Stabilizing Brace, as a stock. SIG have responded with this statement … A Statement Regarding the SIG SAUER® Pistol Stabilizing Brace. [Read More…]
Dimitrios Karras of Ares Armor is a little frustrated with the BATFE’s inconsistency regarding 80% lowers, and what constitutes their manufacture. To assist ATF director B. Todd Jones in understanding, Karras wrote a letter outlining some of the previous [Read More…]
FFLGuard is a company that specializes in Legal Services & Compliance Solutions for the Firearms Industry. One of their departments monitors outputs from the BATFE and puts out advisories, and the most recent is the end of year report from BATFE inspections. The [Read More…]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives keeps data on all firearms manufacturers and how much they produce each year. We at TFB thought it would interest our readers to take a look at this data and see which ten manufacturers produced the most. The [Read More…]
The BATFE now want to get the documents they approved back. They seem confused if Trusts are persons or not persons. Its all quite hilarious. They are definitely always persons, but … also not always. Thanks to Jaqufrost for going through this BATFE process [Read More…]
The ATF has published a proposed rule that if a firearm is lost in transit, the FFL who shipped a firearm must report its loss within 48 hours of discovery. The NSSF is opposed to the rule, declaring it to be a burden to FFLs. Out of the millions of guns shipped each [Read More…]
Prince Law, one of my favorite legal sites for firearms and related items posted up an outline summary of the 13th Annual Firearms Import/Export Conference hosted by the the F.A.I.R. Trade Group and the NSSF. Major highlights: the ATF is catching up on its backlog. [Read More…]
Steve Says: Many thanks to Spencer, a law student, for contributing this well researched guest post. This is a legal post, not a political post. Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case Abramski v. United Statesagainst Abramski in a 5–4 decision [Read More…]
According to the gun lawyers and bloggers over at Prince Law Offices, P.C. a recent ATF determination that “unincorporated trusts” are not “persons” under the Gun Control Act may have opened a way for trusts to manufacture new Post-86 machine [Read More…]
Much to my surprise and well ahead of 60 days (much less 30 days), the local examiner has called to set up my FFL 07 interview. My agent (let’s call him “Rick”) sounded enthusiastic, but overworked. It was a god-send that he had an open day as next [Read More…]
The ATF has officially banned “Russian-made 7n6 5.45×39 ammunition” after a request for review from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). As Bearing Arms points out, the Special Advisory specifically calls out “Russian-made”. It [Read More…]
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by a journalist from the Voice of Russia, a Russian state-owned broadcaster, on topic of how many guns exist in the USA. They have just published an English language article based on the interview. Just for the record, the title [Read More…]
Here’s the short version of the story: On December 12, 2012, I turned my completed Form 4 over to my class III dealer who, in turn, mailed the paperwork into ATF. I was approved on July 16, 2013 and the suppressor I purchased was transferred to me on [Read More…]
A AR15.com member was told that that his Form 1 (Application to Make and Register a Firearm) would take up to one year to process. 57Strat wrote … I just called today to check on a Form 1. The woman on the phone said if I sent an application in today, it would [Read More…]
In 2010 the BATFE arrested 21 people, including Smith & Wesson executives for beaching the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a law which prohibits US corporations, citizens and residents from bribing foreign officials. Those arrested were charged with conspiring to [Read More…]
I came across a webpage on the BATFE website with examples of NFA regulated guns …
From The Arizona Republic, via. SayUncle … Cavalry Arms Corp. says on its Web site that it has been “engaged in an ongoing dispute” with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, for two years over “regulatory and [Read More…]
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