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ATF/DOJ announce updates to regulations

Posted on 4/29/26 at 2:51 pm
Posted by TideCPA
Member since Jan 2012
14143 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 2:51 pm


quote:

The ATF has posted summaries of the new regulations, which include:

1) Repeal Biden's pistol brace rule
2) Revising "engaged in the business" rule
3) Revising machine gun definition in response to Cargill decision
4) Remove requirement for FFLs to post info about Youth Handgun Safety Act
5) Revising 4473 form, including allowing electronic forms and increase the time NICS checks remain valid
6) Allow FFLs to keep electronic records
7) Replace indefinite retention of 4473s with definite time periods of 20 or 30 years
8) Allow “Non-Over-the-Counter” firearm sales by FFLs to residents of the same state
9) Repeal interstate NFA transport notice requirement for trips under 365 days, with all others no longer requiring approval before transport
10) Joint NFA registration for married couples
11) Remove NFA CLEO notification
12) Clarify that "common, reasonably necessary activities during travel" are covered by FOPA transportation protection
13) Allow import of dual-use frames, receivers, and barrels
14) Clarify that "training rounds" are not ammunition
15) Eliminate engraving requirement for people making NFA firearms out of existing serialized guns
16) "Clarify that a person receiving assistance in only one functional area (such as financial management) would not, on that basis alone, be considered prohibited" under mental health disqualifier
17) Requiring biological sex on ATF Forms
18) Clarify when a transaction is a straw purchase
19) Formally define "willfully" for firearms violations
20) "Remove the list of former Soviet countries from which ATF currently denies applications to permanently import most firearms and ammunition, retaining only the Russian Federation"
Posted by finchmeister08
Member since Mar 2011
40270 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 2:59 pm to
1) Repeal Biden's pistol brace rule
HELL YES

3) Revising machine gun definition in response to Cargill decision
HELL YES

7) Replace indefinite retention of 4473s with definite time periods of 20 or 30 years
HELL YES

9) Repeal interstate NFA transport notice requirement for trips under 365 days, with all others no longer requiring approval before transport
HELL YES

10) Joint NFA registration for married couples
does this officially make trusts obsolete?

11) Remove NFA CLEO notification
HELL YES

12) Clarify that "common, reasonably necessary activities during travel" are covered by FOPA transportation protection
i don't know what this means.

15) Eliminate engraving requirement for people making NFA firearms out of existing serialized guns
HELL YES, but this means i just degraded my Colt frames for my GWOT clones.

20) "Remove the list of former Soviet countries from which ATF currently denies applications to permanently import most firearms and ammunition....
HELL YES

...retaining only the Russian Federation"
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! me want an official Russian AK!!!!!

all others don't pertain to me... i think. i like where this is going.
Posted by TideCPA
Member since Jan 2012
14143 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:02 pm to
My thoughts exactly on all these. Completely validates my recent individual purchase of a suppressor since it can now pass to my wife.

Also, going to SBR my pistol lower immediately given no interstate notice requirements for short trips and no engraving requirement. That's basically just one eForm at this point, right?
Posted by finchmeister08
Member since Mar 2011
40270 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:05 pm to
it's still going to be an eForm 1 because you're building a firearm. nothing changes there. you just simply don't have to engrave.

if i had know this a month ago, i wouldn't have engraved them.

the CLEO rule was dumb, too. from what i understand, you used to have to have them sign the CLEO form and submit it with your paperwork. however, they changed that requirement years ago.
Posted by LoneStarTiger
Lone Star State
Member since Aug 2004
16510 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:08 pm to
cool. guess I'll have to continue dreaming about the day suppressors aren't restricted
Posted by finchmeister08
Member since Mar 2011
40270 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:08 pm to
quote:

Completely validates my recent individual purchase of a suppressor since it can now pass to my wife.


she still has to be on the registration eForm from the way this reads...

https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/atf-launches-new-era-reform/reduce-burden

quote:

13P: Joint Registration for Spouses under the National Firearms Act - NPRM

ATF is proposing to allow married couples to file a joint application as makers and/or transferees of NFA-regulated firearms. Under current regulations, spouses who wish to jointly possess an NFA firearm typically establish a legal trust to do so, a process that involves legal expense and administrative complexity. This proposal would allow both spouses to be registered jointly as possessors without creating a trust. Under a joint registration, the transfer of a firearm between spouses would not constitute a separate NFA transfer, reducing both administrative burden and cost for law-abiding NFA firearm owners.
Posted by LoneStarTiger
Lone Star State
Member since Aug 2004
16510 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:09 pm to
quote:

going to SBR my pistol lower immediately given no interstate notice requirements for short trips and no engraving requirement.


same
Posted by bbvdd
Memphis, TN
Member since Jun 2009
28772 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:11 pm to
quote:

Repeal interstate NFA transport notice requirement for trips under 365 days, with all others no longer requiring approval before transport


So, I don't have to fill out a form to take my SBR to my land in another state now??

Posted by bayoudude
Member since Dec 2007
25914 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:22 pm to
Does the Cargill decision help keep frt triggers safe or will it only apply to bump stocks? As technically they are just internally bump firing.
Posted by TideCPA
Member since Jan 2012
14143 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:23 pm to
quote:

she still has to be on the registration eForm from the way this reads...
Well, frick. Oh well. Onto SBR'ing my pistol lower.
Posted by TideCPA
Member since Jan 2012
14143 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 3:24 pm to
quote:

So, I don't have to fill out a form to take my SBR to my land in another state now??
Appears to be the case. I haven't read anything but the summaries yet.
Posted by Soul Gleaux
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2012
4292 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 5:06 pm to
quote:

Eliminate engraving requirement for people making NFA firearms out of existing serialized guns


Will finally sbr my SP5k
So is this list in effect now/immediately?
This post was edited on 4/29/26 at 5:09 pm
Posted by TxWadingFool
Middle Coast
Member since Sep 2014
5658 posts
Posted on 4/29/26 at 8:49 pm to
It's a start, but so many bigger issues out there. One of which is abolishing the ATF.
Posted by zippyputt
Member since Jul 2005
7153 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 7:21 am to
quote:

12) Clarify that "common, reasonably necessary activities during travel" are covered by FOPA transportation protection i don't know what this means.


My guess is that it may try to clarify the 1968 Firearms Owners Protection Act for traveling to prevent issues from arising during transport. In other words, not getting hassled for transporting a firearm by LEO saying you deviated from “travel” by getting food, car repairs, getting gas, etc… while traveling. Just a guess on this. Not an expert in any way.
Posted by BACONisMEATcandy
Member since Dec 2007
46742 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:06 pm to
That is my take too. Hopefully they will also include when you fly through IL or NY on a plane and your connection is canceled.
Posted by NOLAGT
Over there
Member since Dec 2012
14033 posts
Posted on 4/30/26 at 9:20 pm to
quote:

So is this list in effect now/immediately?


I dont think so? I think it still has to open up for public comments? I was going to let it simmer a bit and see what info comes out. I took advantage of the pistol brace frickery and SBRed 11 of my pistols for free and no engraving but id be glad to not have to ask permission to cross state lines with them.

quote:

retaining only the Russian Federation"
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! me want an official Russian AK!!!!!


Yea at first I thought id possibly be able to get a SVD Dragunov for not 9k. but nope. I had read about the Russian ban the night of and bought up some other Molot's for 999 a pop.



This post was edited on 4/30/26 at 9:29 pm
Posted by rattlebucket
SELA
Member since Feb 2009
12897 posts
Posted on 5/1/26 at 7:40 am to
quote:

cool. guess I'll have to continue dreaming about the day suppressors aren't restricted


This. Makes no sense. Im no more lethal with a suppressor. Should be an over the counter same day sale like a mag or accessory. I can buy the dang gun itself sameday in most cases but lower the decibels of the bang, ooohhh scary
Posted by bbvdd
Memphis, TN
Member since Jun 2009
28772 posts
Posted on 5/1/26 at 10:40 am to
just read that there is language in the 2027 house appropriations bill to remove silencers and SBRs from the NFA.

Hopefully they will be able to get that through this time.
Posted by Carson123987
Middle Court at the Rec
Member since Jul 2011
68104 posts
Posted on 5/1/26 at 10:51 am to
quote:

Will finally sbr my SP5k


I just didn't engrave mine

Nobody checking that shite
Posted by BACONisMEATcandy
Member since Dec 2007
46742 posts
Posted on 5/1/26 at 4:15 pm to
Won't pass the Byrd bath in the Senate so it would be subjected to 60 votes in the Senate The courts are the best bet for us here.

But 5th Circuit now working on machine guns

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