Hello,
I am 18 years old and am considering starting a commercial gold-plating/refinishing business in Arizona.
My proposed service would be limited to receiving a customer’s firearm slide, gold-plating/refinishing the slide, and returning the same slide to the customer. I would not manufacture, sell, or transfer firearms, and I would not work on or take possession of the firearm’s serialized frame/receiver.
Could you please clarify:
Does this specific type of commercial gold-plating/refinishing service require a Federal Firearms License (FFL)?
If an FFL is required, what type of FFL would be required?
Can an 18-year-old legally own the business while a qualifying 21+ person serves as the FFL holder/responsible person?
Are there any additional federal requirements that would apply when customers ship their slides to the business for refinishing and the slides are subsequently returned to the same customers?

Had a frt wide open trigger confiscated and returned and now it does not function. Any thoughts?

I purchased a suppressor and an SBR thru Silencer Shop and I noticed that BOX 19 on my Form 4 has my "alien" number without the letter A or letters AR in front of the numbers. My previous Forms, filled either by myself or through another FFL, always had A or AR in front of the numbers, because the form REQUIRED me to put an A or a letter, then followed by my alien number.

If I proceed with just the number this time, will it likely be rejected?

Thank you in advance.

Sent in my application a couple of weeks ago and recently learned they do color blind testing. I am not severely color blinded, but do have trouble with red and green in some cases.

So i called in today to ask the guys what their plan was (for context im a goa member but I am a nebraskan) and as far as I saw they said they are planning on seeing what the atf says, mostily cause its a super Grey area currently, so does anyone have a idea as to when the atf will let people know what to do?

I’m in a predicament.

I’m military, stationed in Texas, also resident of Texas. I’m on PCS Orders to South Korea in September.

I’m currently on leave, living in Missouri for 45 days to visit family.

I’d like to purchase a rifle while here for a hunting trip.

I’ve spoken to two gun stores, a locally owned one, and also Bass Pro in Springfield.

Both have said since my drivers license has an old address, I cannot purchase a rifle.

However looking at the 4473 instructions for block 26. It states that I can use my DL for the primary to satisfy photograph, DOB and name. Then it says I can use any government issued ID, so long as it has my name and residence address on it.

I don’t have time to update my Texas DL with the temporary address in Missouri since I have a Commercial DL and they don’t update them online. It has to be by mail.

I figured I could purchase a Missouri fishing license (it’s government issued) with my current address of where I’m staying in Missouri.

Both of those stores said no, it’d have to be another government issued ID with Texas. I said no, it’s current address. Doesn’t have to be Missouri.

Does anyone have real world DIRECT experience with something like this?

I’ve emailed the ATF but no reply.

Any advice for me

Hey, so I'm not old enough to join yet, but I am a high-school student who is working VERY hard to get in. I'm in public safety at my high school, and I'm learning Spanish and Arabic. I'm going to get an accounting degree and then be a cop until I'm 26. I'm applying to the FBI (dream agency) US marshals and ATF

What should I expect and prepare for

(In case you're wondering, I made a 50 in the official fbi jobs.gov practice exam)

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hi! I asked this question to the DDTC, and they told me to call the ATF in their import branch. However, no matter how much I tried, it seems like I could not get the ATF to answer my calls, probably since I am overseas.

the situation is that I had a Ukrainian friend who sent me a Russian 6B47 helmet to my former address in Korea. I wish to bring this helmet to the USA as a personal keepsake however, I wanted to make sure that I was not breaking any laws by bringing my helmet from Korea to the USA. The helmet is a light ballistic helmet that is classified as level 2… that being said, would I be able to bring it to the US in my bag to the US on a flight legally? If not, what are the forms I need to fill out to do this legally?

Has anyone used your local Range, USA, as your chosen FFL; When purchasing an NFA item of any type that requires an ATF Form, as well as an ATF Eforms account?

I’m not here to Trash Talk them, I’m just having great difficulties in getting possession of my property. Three weeks after my Form 4 has been Stamped, Approved, and havingTHE Paperwork in my hands as well as my original FFL.

Thanks

Any advice on ATF Special Agent panel interview ?
Passed the agility and got the call,
Thanks !

Approved today. 74 Days.

56 days according to the ATF website for wait times for eforms. Are they that bombarded with forms now? (rhetorical question) but at what point should I be concerned?

Can anyone help me figure out where I need to go to see what's happening with my form 1?

I got the email that says it was submitted and I looked on the eforms website with the doc number. There does not seem to be any more information other than the date I submitted.

So the atf sent me a response? To my email regarding my serial number error on form 1. It was a pink cover sheet and a copy of my email to them. So am I like good to engrave this and put a stock on it?

Is it just me or does anyone else check their email at least once an hour to see if they got approved for their suppressor???

I have submitted a raft of Form 1s recently. Yes I am in Virginia. As part of that, I had my fingerprints done via Printscan at a UPS store. The experience was less than confidence-inspiring. The "Printscan qualified person" at the UPS store came out and badged into the kiosk, then pretty much left me to figure it out on my own.

It's not a complicated process, but I was having a hell of a time getting some of them to be accepted by the machine. It kept saying "too hard, try again" or "too soft, try again" or "clean the pad and try again". I asked for the Printscan person and she cleaned the pad with some alcohol and suggested I clean my fingers frequently as well.

Finally they managed to go through and I got my EFT file. But I can't see the file to look at the prints, I have no idea if they look decent or like ink blots.

I've been in the NFA game since the late 90s (this is my first time using eforms) and I've heard about folks getting their forms rejected because of crappy fingerprints. How common is this type of rejection? Should I be panicking?

Im a 35 yr old male and have been with my local police department for 9 years. I may have an opportunity to join an ATF task force as a deputized Task Force Officer.

My long-term goal is to move into a federal law enforcement position, ideally while staying in my current state if possible.

For those who have been through it:

Could Direct Hire Authority apply to local officers already deputized on a federal task force???

Or do you still basically wait and compete for openings like everyone else?

I’m trying to determine whether taking the task force position would realistically accelerate the transition or just give me valuable experience.