Ohio's SB 214 and Florida's attorney general moved short-barreled firearms off the federal registration track. The commercial half of that change is a service line dealers can price, publish and staff, and the shops that build it first will own the transfers.
ATF stopped enforcing NFA approval, registration and tax-stamp requirements for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs and AOWs on October 9 — and its chief counsel resigned on October 30. What still applies to dealers, and what customers will expect to see on your listing.
A new Firearm Handler Check Final Rule lets federal firearms licensees run NICS background checks on current and prospective employees. Read the original story: Gun Dealers Will Soon Be Able to Run Their Own Employees Through NICS Under New Firearm Handler Check Rule
Palmetto State Armory's 17-state SBR rollout turns the NFA ruling into a shipping map. The counter math on transfer fees, attachment margin, the ITAR cost facing silencer makers, and the dealer-rule appeal still on the docket.
A Springfield shop sold a suppressor in the time it takes to run a background check - the first real retail read on ATF's October 9 guidance. Week one taught dealers that the federal paper moved, but the compliance load did not.
ATF stopped enforcing NFA registration for suppressors, SBRs and SBSs on October 9, but state law never moved. New Mexico's waiting-period fight and Montana's felony statute show what that costs dealers at the counter.
Mississippi's attorney general makes Form 4 voluntary, Maryland holds its line, and Silencer Central opens a 20,000-dealer transfer network. Plus what this week's rule changes mean for your counter.
ATF's Oct. 9 guidance ended Form 4s for suppressors nationwide and left the SOT rule, the 4473 duty and 50 state laws standing. The operational playbook for dealers this month.
The NFA injunction protects parties and their customers, not every dealer. A field guide to running NFA transfers now, pricing them as a revenue line, and getting found when buyers search for a shop that handles suppressors.
The NFA appeal window just closed. Here is how FFL dealers can capture the surge in suppressor, SBR and NFA transfer searches with the right pages, keywords, Google Business Profile and schema.