Guidance Documents

This ruling prescribes alternate bullet resistance construction standards for explosives storage facilities.

This ruling advises that a hand-held device designed to expel by means of an explosive two electrical contacts (barbs) connected by two wires attached to a high voltage source in the device is classified as a firearm.

This ruling explains certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements of pawnbrokers.

This circular requests all FFLs to report thefts or losses of explsives from their magazines or premises promptly. For purposes of security notify the nearest ATF office and local authorities.

This ruling advises that mere possession of a license and a special tax stamp as a dealer in firearms does not qualify a person to receive firearms transfer-tax-free. Rev. Rul. 58-432 is superseded.

This ruling advises that a member of the Armed Forces on active duty is a resident of the State in which his permanent duty station is located.

This ruling clarifies the recordkeeping requirements for Title I firearms from which parts are salvaged for use in repairing firearms.

The Bureau has been asked to determine the applicability of Titles I and II of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (Chapter 44 of Title 18 U.S.C., and Chapter 53 of Title 26 U.S.C. (National Firearms Act)) to a device known as the Taser, a hand-held device designed to expel by means of an explosive two electrical contacts (barbs) connected by two wires attached to a high voltage source in the device.