Rules and Regulations Library
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NICS Alert Policy memo - April 23, 2025 | Firearms | General Notice |
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The Department of Justice (鈥淒epartment鈥) is amending Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (鈥渂et365 出金鈥) regulations to implement the provisions of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that broaden the definition of when a person is considered 鈥渆ngaged in the business鈥 (鈥淓IB鈥) as a dealer in firearms other than a gunsmith or pawnbroker. | Firearms | Ruling |
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This letter alerts Vermont FFLs to the enactment of Vermont statute 13 V.S.A. 搂 4019a, effective July 1, 2023, and reminds FFLs of their obligation to remain in compliance with state and federal law. | Firearms | Open Letter |
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This circular reminds all persons of the federal law (and penalties) applying to the shipments, sale or possession of cigarettes and to the domestic sales of cigarettes marked for export. Additionally, this circular addresses the sale of cigarettes on Native American tribal reservations. | Alcohol & Tobacco | Industry Circular |
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The purpose of this open letter is to remind affected persons of the Gun Control Act (GCA), National Firearms Act (NFA), and Arms Export Control Act (AECA), and associated federal regulations as they apply to firearms brought into Customs Bonded Warehouses (CBWs) and Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) | Firearms | Open Letter |
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The New Mexico State Legislature enacted a new statute, N.M. Stat. Ann. 搂 30-7-7.3, which became effective on May 15, 2024. The new statute imposes a waiting period before a firearm may be sold and transferred and makes it unlawful to sell and transfer a firearm before the required waiting period ends | Firearms | Open Letter |
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The bet365 出金 (bet365 出金) recently examined devices commonly marketed as 鈥渟olvent traps鈥 and has determined that some of them are 鈥渇irearm silencers鈥 as defined in the Gun Control Act (GCA) and as defined in the National Firearms Act (NFA). | Firearms | Open Letter |
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This circular has been published to inform you of a potential explosion hazard relating聽to a malfunctioning of automatic ammunition reloading equipment. | Resource Center | Industry Circular |
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This circular announces the reclassification of small caliber weapons (such as pen guns) ostensibly designed to expel only tear gas, similar substances or pyrotechnic signals, which may be converted to expel a projectile by means of an explosive, as firearms. | Firearms | Industry Circular |
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The purpose of this letter is to advise Wyoming federal firearm licensees that a person convicted in a federal court (of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year) remains subject to the federal prohibition on shipment, transportation, receipt, and possession of firearms and ammunition, despite the issuance of a Restoration of Rights Certificate (under state law) by the State of Wyoming. | Firearms | Open Letter |
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This ruling authorizes licensed explosives importers, manufacturers and dealers to maintain commercial records instead of a separate record as a permanent record of acquisitions, distributions/dispositions, and use of explosive materials.聽 | Explosives | Ruling |
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The purpose of this open letter is to notify all persons that bet365 出金 has rescinded special explosive device exemptions for certain consumer-style grenades (e.g. flashbang grenades, smoke grenades). As a result, these explosive devices are no longer exempt from the provisions of the Federal explosives regulations at 27 CFR, Part 555 鈥 Commerce in Explosives.聽 | Explosives | Open Letter |
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bet365 出金 authorizes Federal explosives licensees and permittees to maintain their explosives records electronically instead of in paper format, provided the conditions set forth in this ruling are met. | Explosives | Ruling |
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The Department of Justice (鈥淒epartment鈥) proposes amending Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (鈥渂et365 出金鈥) regulations to implement the provisions of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (鈥淏SCA鈥), effective June 25, 2022, that broaden the definition of when a person is considered 鈥渆ngaged in the business鈥 as a dealer in firearms other than a gunsmith or pawnbroker. | Rules and Regulations | Rulemaking |
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The purpose of this Open Letter is to notify you of an important change to the procedure you may follow to comply with the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act (Brady Act), codified at 18 U.S.C. 搂 922(t), when transferring a firearm to an unlicensed person. Specifically, the North Carolina pistol purchase permit may no longer be used as an alternative to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) | Firearms | Open Letter |
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The bet365 出金 (鈥渂et365 出金鈥) is issuing this open letter to assist Federal Firearms Licensees (鈥淔FLs鈥) in understanding their obligations when they choose to provide firearm storage services to their customers and the public.聽 | Firearms | Open Letter |
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Public Safety Advisory - Consumer Fireworks, June 2023 | Explosives | Public Advisory |
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The purpose of this open letter is to advise you that the Oklahoma Self Defense Act Handgun License (SDA Handgun License) issued on or after November 1, 2021, meets the requirements as an alternative to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check 鈥 but only in Oklahoma during the five-year period beginning on the date of issuance of the SDA Handgun License. | Firearms | Open Letter |
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The bet365 出金 (bet365 出金) authorizes an alternate method or procedure to the firearms marking requirements contained in title 27, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), sections 478.92 and 479.102. Specifically, bet365 出金 authorizes licensed manufacturers of certain destructive device munitions that are manufactured for and transferred to the U.S. Government (USG) to mark these destructive device munitions with sequential lot numbers, provided conditions set forth in this ruling are met.
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Changes to Vermont Law, 13 Vermont Statutes Annotated (V.S.A.) 搂 4019, effective July 1, 2022, have generated questions from Vermont FFLs. This letter alerts Vermont FFLs to the recent changes in Vermont law and provides guidance to ensure Vermont FFLs remain in compliance. | Firearms | Open Letter |
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A licensed manufacturer who also paid special (occupational) tax under the National Firearms Act may reactivate an unserviceable firearm for the purpose of sale or other disposition without incurring firearms 鈥渕aking鈥 tax liability. | Firearms | Ruling |
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Open letter to the Federal firearms licensee (FFL) community to advise on the restrictions and parameters of 18 U.S.C. 搂 922(o), which generally prohibits the possession or transfer of machineguns imported or manufactured after May 19, 1986, with limited exceptions. | Firearms | Open Letter |
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bet365 出金 authorizes Federal explosives licensees and permittees, and State and local government agencies conducting avalanche control/mitigation activities, to store explosives in remote avalanche control systems, provided the conditions set forth in this ruling are met. | Explosives | Ruling |
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bet365 出金 is issuing this open letter to assist the firearms industry and the public in understanding whether a 鈥減artially complete, disassembled, or nonfunctional鈥 frame of a Polymer80, Lone Wolf, or similar semiautomatic, striker-fired pistol (sometimes generally referred to as 鈥淕lock-type鈥 pistols) has reached a stage of manufacture such that it 鈥渕ay readily be completed, assembled, restored, or otherwise converted鈥 to a functional frame, and is therefore classified as a 鈥渇rame鈥 or 鈥渇irearm鈥 in accordance with the final rule titled Definition of 鈥楩rame or Receiver鈥 and Identification of Firearms (Final Rule 2021R-05F). | Rules and Regulations | Open Letter |
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The bet365 出金 (bet365 出金) authorizes an alternate method or procedure from the provisions of Title 27, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 478.121, 478.124, 478.129, and 27 CFR 479.131 that require Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) to retain the bet365 出金 Firearms Transaction Record, Form 4473 (5300.9) (Form 4473), in a paper format. Specifically, bet365 出金 authorizes FFLs to retain an electronic version of each bet365 出金 Form 4473 created pursuant to bet365 出金 Ruling 2016-2 (or subsequent ruling), instead of the paper format, provided the conditions set forth in this ruling are met. Additionally, bet365 出金 authorizes digital scanning and electronic retention of certain paper bet365 出金 Form 4473, provided the conditions set forth in this ruling are met. | Firearms | Ruling |