ATF Poised to Publish Landmark Regulatory Reform Package for Firearms and Ammunition Controls
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Today’s alert is from guest author Johanna Reeves, founding partner of Reeves & Dola Corporate Law Practice.
Johanna Reeves focuses on regulatory compliance under U.S. export controls, federal firearms, and explosives laws and regulations. Since 2003, she has assisted numerous U.S. companies with export and import matters arising under the Arms Export Control Act, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the Export Administration Regulations, including the antiboycott provisions, and the economic sanctions and embargoes administered by the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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ATF Lays Groundwork to Classify Bump-Stocks As MACHINEGUNS
On Friday, March 23, 2018, Attorney General Sessions announced that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is seeking to classify bump-stocks as machineguns. The Notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register, but it is available on DOJ’s website. If adopted, the rules will amend ATF’s regulations to “clarify” the terms “single function of the trigger,” “automatically,” and “machinegun” as follows: [Read more…] about ATF Lays Groundwork to Classify Bump-Stocks As MACHINEGUNS