ATF Proposed Rule on Bump-Stock-Type Devices Officially Published

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) officially published in the Federal Register its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Bump-Stock-Type Devices (Docket No. 2017R-22). Written comments can now be submitted and will be accepted until June 27, 2018. The electronic Federal Docket Management System will not accept comments after midnight Eastern Daylight Time on the last day of the comment period.

As we first reported in our March 26, 2018 Alert, ATF is accepting comments on the following topics:

1. the scope of the proposed rule and the definition of “machinegun;”
2. the costs and benefits of the proposed rule and the appropriate methodology and data for calculating those costs;
3. the reasonableness of the assumption that retailers of bum-stock-type devices are likely to be businesses with an online presence;
4. how ATF should address bump-stock-type devices that private parties currently possess; and
5. the appropriate means of implementing a final rule.

The NPRM provides the following instructions for submitting comments:

1. Submission: Comments will be accepted in one of three ways, but ATF instructs not to submit the same comments multiple times, or by more than one method. The three ways to submit …Read the Rest

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