ATF Interpretive Change Restricts Handgun Imports and May Require NFA Registration

[georgeib]

ATF Interpretive Change Restricts Handgun Imports and May Require NFA Registration

https://comms.wiley.law/8/3583/octob...tration(2).asp


The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has recently changed the manner in which it interprets the statutory and regulatory definition of “handgun,” thereby further limiting the types of firearms eligible for importation. These determinations are not public, so it is difficult for the regulated community to assess and track shifting agency positions...


In some of the new letters, ATF has begun listing the following “objective design features” when making its evaluations:

Incorporation of rifle sights;
Utilization of "rifle caliber ammunition" (both 5.56mm and 7.62mm have been considered as such);
Incorporation of “rifle-length barrel;”
The “weapon’s heavy weight;”
Ability to accept magazines that range in capacity from 20 rounds to 100 rounds, “which will contribute to the overall weight of the firearm”;
Overall length of the weapon which “creates a front-heavy imbalance when held in one hand.”

[flenna]

ATF Interpretive Change Restricts Handgun Imports and May Require NFA Registration

https://comms.wiley.law/8/3583/octob...tration(2).asp


The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has recently changed the manner in which it interprets the statutory and regulatory definition of “handgun,” thereby further limiting the types of firearms eligible for importation. These determinations are not public, so it is difficult for the regulated community to assess and track shifting agency positions...


In some of the new letters, ATF has begun listing the following “objective design features” when making its evaluations:

Incorporation of rifle sights;
Utilization of "rifle caliber ammunition" (both 5.56mm and 7.62mm have been considered as such);
Incorporation of “rifle-length barrel;”
The “weapon’s heavy weight;”
Ability to accept magazines that range in capacity from 20 rounds to 100 rounds, “which will contribute to the overall weight of the firearm”;
Overall length of the weapon which “creates a front-heavy imbalance when held in one hand.”

This and the Honey Badger decision just makes me think they are getting warmed up for a Harris/Biden administration. Creating felons by decree.

[Firefly]

Oh boy. More interpretations.

I love interpretations. It’s like you can make up whatever you want. Like an ink blot test.

Doesn’t matter about the law or constitution.

It’s like someone saying “It came to me in a dream” or “it was real in my mind”

[georgeib]

Oh boy. More interpretations.

I love interpretations. It’s like you can make up whatever you want. Like an ink blot test.

Doesn’t matter about the law or constitution.

It’s like someone saying “It came to me in a dream” or “it was real in my mind”

Yeah well, it's going to be a nightmare soon enough...

[Firefly]

This and the Honey Badger decision just makes me think they are getting warmer up for a Harris/Biden administration. Creating felons by decree.

One day this will be played unironically and with a harsh meaning.....

[Firefly]

Yeah well, it's going to be a nightmare soon enough...

Hee hee you’re right but in the most delightfully wrong way

[1168]

This and the Honey Badger decision just makes me think they are getting warmed up for a Harris/Biden administration. Creating felons by decree.

This confuses me. The director of the ATF was appointed in 2019 and is on the “Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice”.

[jpmuscle]

Can’t wait for the junior atf crowd to get all spun up on this and start flexing compliance accusations on the interwebs.

Per usual the correct response is indifference, defiance, and active usurpation.

The ATF is literally an evil .gov entity.


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[jpmuscle]

This confuses me. The director of the ATF was appointed in 2019 and is on the “Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice”.

Which translates to pro enforcement, expansion of criminal statutes, and perpetuating the self licking ice cream cone nature of law enforcement under the guise of expanding public safety targeted policies.


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[jpmuscle]

This and the Honey Badger decision just makes me think they are getting warmed up for a Harris/Biden administration. Creating felons by decree.

Just remember, if everyone is a felon then nobody is a felon.


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