A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling affirmed the ATF’s classification of bump stocks as the functional equivalent of machine guns under the National Firearms Act….
In an email sent, presumably, to all active FFLs on Friday afternoon (Dec 10), the ATF provided some updates regarding its eForms service. As y’all know, eForm 4s are returning this month, which is great…
ATF eForms allows electronic filing of various forms related to NFA items (silencers, short barreled rifles and shotguns, etc.), but the Form 4, the form required for an individual to purchase an NFA item and…
If only someone could have foreseen that using regulatory fiat to magically declare that a bump stock is the same as a machine gun could prove to be problematic. A Sixth Circuit en banc panel…
From the NSSF . . . The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the firearm industry trade association, revealed that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) processed 687,788 background checks during the week…
When President Biden last spring announced measures intended to curb gun violence, he directed the Justice Department to formulate a new rule under which the ATF would classify gun kits as firearms. The period of public…
There are so many rumors, myths, and misunderstandings around what it means to own an NFA item — a silencer, short barreled rifle or shotgun, machine gun, etc. — that it’s hard to even know…
The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who…
By Larry Keane David Chipman is proving – again – why he was never fit to be Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Chipman spoke with CBS News claiming the firearm industry, “profits by…
By Lee Williams It took the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives more than three months just to acknowledge receipt of a simple FOIA request. Quite the work ethic they have there…106 days…