Guidance Documents

This ruling describes an ATF-approved method of destruction for the Sten type machinegun will result in the severed portions of the receiver being importable for unrestricted commercial sale.

The purpose of this industry circular is to advise alcohol and tobacco permitees, taxpayers and claimants that, effective January 24, 2003, a new Treasury agency, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), will be responsible for administering the alcohol and tobacco laws noted below and implementing regulations currently administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

The purpose of this industry circular is to advise firearms and ammunition excise taxpayers that effective January 24, 2003, a new Treasury agency, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, will be responsible for administering the firearms and ammunition excise tax laws and regulations currently administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).

To provide instructions for the designation of a state institution for concurrent service of a federal sentence. The expected results of this program are: State institutions will be designated for concurrent service of a federal sentence when it is consistent with the intent of the federal sentencing court or with the goals of the criminal justice system. Accurate records and accountability will be maintained by the Regional Inmate Systems Administrator (RISA) for inmates serving federal sentences in state institutions.

The purpose of this letter is to provide you with information on a provision of the recently enacted Homeland Security Act of 2002. This provision moves most of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Justice effective January 24, 2003.

The purpose of this letter is to inform Federal firearms licensees that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) National Instant Criminal Background Check System's (NICS) Voluntary Appeal File (VAF) has been established.

What’s In This Issue: INS-Issued Alien Numbers and Admission Numbers; Change of Address Requires Amended License; Providing Copies of ATF Form 4473 as Part of Coupon/Rebate Offers; "Contiguous State"; Distribution of Explosive Pest Control Devices at Gun Shows; E-Versions of ATF Form 4473; NICS Denials of Pawn Redemptions; Transfers to Aliens Under a Nonimmigrant Visa- An Update; Quick Action Pays Dividends; Recording Firearms Serial NUmbers; Russian Air Guns & Dummy Guns; Streetsweeper Update

The purpose of this letter is to provide you information on the provisions of the Safe Explosives Act (the Act), which was enacted on November 25, 2002.

This open letter provides information for public and private institutes and the provisions pertaining to the Safe Explosives Act.

This ruling advises that in accordance with 27 CFR 178.92 and 27 CFR 179.102, identification of firearms, armor piercing ammunition, and large capacity ammunition feeding devices, the terms "conspicuously" and "legibly" as used therein mean, respectively, that the markings are wholly unobstructed from plain view and that the markings contain exclusively Roman letters and Arabic numerals.