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ATF has long claimed its digitized gun records are not a registry because they are not searchable by buyer name. A new Firearms Research Center paper warns that artificial intelligence could make that excuse obsolete.
ATF’s draft revised Form 4473 would cut the firearms transaction form from seven pages to four while changing several key buyer questions. The proposal affects sex identification, marijuana language, straw purchase warnings, firearm type entries, and possible non-over-the-counter transfers.
ATF’s proposed rule would expand non-over-the-counter firearm transfers, allowing same-state FFLs to verify buyers remotely and ship firearms directly after federal checks are complete.
ATF’s new reform package targets pistol braces, bump stocks, FFL paperwork, NFA travel rules, CLEO notices, and other regulatory burdens on gun owners and firearm businesses. It is real progress, but gun owners should read the fine print.
What this means is the Form 4473 will need to be revised again if ATF is to comply with the executive order.
President Biden said almost no one is charged with lying on a 4473. Quick research shows that several hundred people each year are charged with lying on the ATF gun purchase form.
Legal experts suggest that Hunter might be looking at mandatory enrollment in a firearms diversion program instead of significant prison time.
New evidence presented against Hunter Biden allegedly proves that the President’s son lied on the ATF’s Form 4473.
Although the NFA process has been around for close to 90 years, the eForm process is a much more recent iteration.
If any other American citizen had done this same crime, you can guarantee we would have been charged and locked up a long time ago.
Something like 12 million drug users own guns, making them guilty of a federal felony that is currently punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
Many states have legalized marijuana for medical & recreational purposes, while the Fed has not. This conspicuous contradiction has not confused ATF!
Our astute President has just told all FFLs we should have been burning every shred of documentation older than 20 years whether he realized it or not.
In 2011 ATF was reminding FFL’s that using Medical Marijuana & buying guns is a Federal crime. Flash forward to 2021 more states have legalized marijuana. This needs fixing.
The issue here is that by purchasing his gun from a dealer, Biden would have had to answer “No” on the ATF Form 4473 question about being an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
Did Hunter Biden commit a federal felony when he purchased his gun that was later left in a trash can and never recovered?
According to GOA, previously proposed revisions to Form 4473 will pave the way for full gun-owner registration in the future.
Is the Federal Government, via the ATF Form 4473, desiring to create a future firearms list, or database, of firearm owners?
The ATF has issued new rules that will alter the format for Form 4473’s and make it easier to create a national gun registry.
On December 26th, 2019 the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a 60-day notice seeking public comment on the new revision of the Form 4473 – Firearms Transaction Record.
When a gun sale is handled at an FFL, the ATF Form 4473 we all fill out is then maintained (BATF requirement) by the FFL for “not less than 20 years.”
The issue is not simply that foolish marijuana-users expose themselves to severe risk when they lie while filling-out a form 4473 but are liable when they in possession of a single round of ammunition
The current one is putting out the clear signal that they are coming after marijuana-users who attempt to buy guns- big time.
Orchid Advisors & strategic partner Grabagun, an industry leading retailer, are excited to announce the industry’s first variance permitting the electronic storage of an eForm 4473.
Yes, that’s right, marijuana is still illegal under federal law and regardless of whatever your state says, it is still a prohibiting factor to purchasing a gun.
ATF Form 4473, Firearms Transaction Record (Form 4473) has been revised. This letter highlights the significant changes to the form…
The number of new applications filed with ATF continued a downward trend to be only 10,288 applicants…
A federal jury exonerated gun owner Ulysses S. Grant Early IV not guilty of conspiracy to make a false statement on a federal a firearm record known as an ATF Form 4473…
Black & Poe Introduce the FIREARM Act: Legislation prohibits the federal government from requiring race or ethnicity to be disclosed when purchasing a firearm…
If you legally buy a firearm in Oklahoma after legally smoking marijuana in Colorado, this could get you a Federal violation conviction…
