Open Letter to All Federal Firearms Licensees

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Open Letter to All Federal Firearms Licensees: Allowable Activities for Firearms Brought Into Customs Bonded Warehouses and Foreign Trade Zones

ATF recently published an open letter to all FFLs. The purpose is to remind affected persons of the Gun Control Act (GCA), National Firearms Act (NFA), Arms Export Control Act, and associated federal regulations as they apply to firearms brought into customs bonded warehouses and foreign trade zones. The letter also clarifies and outlines allowable activities involving firearms in these locations; in the past, certain activities occurring within customs bonded warehouses and foreign trade zones resulted in persons remanufacturing or manipulating firearms, firearm receivers, and barrels into sporting configurations that would otherwise be importable under the GCA and NFA.


U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives · 99 New York Ave NE · Washington, DC 20226 · 800-439-1420

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