[Proposed Rule] Machine Guns, Destructive Devices and Certain Other Firearms; Background Checks for Responsible Persons of a Corporation, Trust or Other Legal Entity With Respect To Making or Transferring a Firearm

FFL-BRO LawWatch detected a firearms-industry legal update.

• Status: Proposed Rule
• Jurisdiction: Federal
• Effective date: Not detected
• Comment deadline: Not detected
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Summary

The Department of Justice proposes amending Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) regulations that concern the making or transferring of a firearm under the National Firearms Act (NFA). The proposed changes include: Defining the term "responsible person," as used in reference to a trust, partnership, association, company, or corporation; requiring "responsible persons" of such legal entities to submit, inter alia, photographs and fingerprints, as well as a law enforcement certificate, when the legal entity files an application to make an NFA firearm or is listed as the transferee on an application to transfer an NFA firearm; modifying the information required in a law enforcement certificate, so that the certificate no longer requires a statement from the certifying official that he or she has no information indicating that the maker or transferee of the NFA firearm

This update is for general industry awareness only and is not legal advice. Confirm applicability with qualified counsel or the issuing agency.