Guidance Documents

What’s In This Issue: Legislative Issues; New Residency Requirements for Purchasers; Licensee Notification; Assault Weapon Receivers; Governmental Exemption to Semiautomatic Weapon Ban; Importation of Machineguns; Transfer of Registered NFA Weapons in Decedent's Estate; Retention of Machineguns by Licensees Who Discontinue Business; Going Out of Business; Wallet Guns; Improving Security; ATF's Stolen Firearms Program

This Program Statement applies to: inmates with limited English proficiency who entered Bureau institutions after March 29, 1994, regardless of their degree of literacy in their native or other language, and other inmates whose English proficiency is limited as defined in Section 7. The Crime Control Act of 1990, codified in 18 U.S.C. § 3624 (f), requires that non-English-speaking Federal prisoners participate in an ESL program until they function at the equivalent of the eighth grade level on a nationally recognized education achievement test.

What’s In This Issue: Computerized Recordkeeping Systems; ATF District Offices; Letters to the Editor; Items of Interest; Establishment of the District Explosive Officers; Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; ATF and Internet; Explosives Security; National Repository of Arson and Explosive Incidents; Theatrical Flash Powder; Be Aware America

This Q&A explains existing rights and obligations under the ADA and the Department's implementing regulations in response to concerns raised by police departments.

Directs staff at BOP facilities to provide materials to inmates for education and leisure purposes (as required by regulation); gives instructions regarding the maintenance of inmate libraries; describes Central office funding and procurement of materials for libraries; gives direction regarding translation of library materials into foreign languages.

This publication explains how the requirements of the ADA apply to child care centers.

This brochure provides a reminder about awareness of potential criminal misuse of fertilizer and agricultural chemicals.

This brochure provides a reminder about securing one's materials to guard against potential criminal misuse of fertilizer and agricultural chemicals.

This ruling advises that the 1919 A-4 semiautomatic firearm and 1919 A-6 semiautomatic rifle are "portable weapons" within the definition firearm and are therefore the subject to the excise tax when sold by their importer or manufacturer pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 4181.

The expected results of this program are: An inmate's use of alcohol will be detected. Use of alcohol by inmates will be deterred. A safe and orderly environment will be provided for inmates.