Posted June 3, 2019 1:57 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

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ATF Meeting Highlights & Other News from the Nation’s Capital

Washington, DC – -(AmmoLand.com)- The F.A.I.R. Trade Group recently met with ATF.

On May 20, 2019, the F.A.I.R. Trade Group met with officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to discuss several areas of interest or concern for the firearms industry. Below are the highlights from that meeting.

Regulatory Reform – pursuant to Executive Order 13777 (Feb. 24, 2017), ATF has designated Claudia Murray as the new official to head up the agency’s regulatory reform task force. The task force helped identify unnecessary guidance documents, which ATF revoked under ATF Rul. 2017-1. The task force will continue its review of the ATF firearm and explosives regulations in 27 C.F.R. Parts 447, 478, 479 and 555 to identify areas for improvement in line with the Trump Administration’s directives on regulatory reform.

Technical Evaluations and Classifications – average processing times are currently six months.

The reason for such a long review time is that there are only nine (9) Firearm Enforcement Officers (FEOs) to serve both the criminal and industry branches within the Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD). The current backlog is more …Read the Rest

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