You may now, as of August 4, 2025, use the FBI database of stolen guns to check serial numbers when potentially taking a firearm into inventory from a customer. The Bipartisan Safer Community Act created the authorization for FFLs to search the FBI NCIC database of stolen guns. Use these two links to get more […]

Firearms inventory management is critical to your profitability, but it also has an impact on your customer experience, employee morale and how smoothly your business runs. This is especially true in the highly regulated world of firearms and explosives where regulation, safety, accuracy and customer demands collide in your warehouse or magazine. I’ve recently written […]

Ever find yourself wondering, “Who can I ask about …?” as it relates to your firearms or explosives business?  Or perhaps you want to know what the latest regulations or changes are to your requirements. 

Surviving an ATF audit begins long before the ATF walks in the door; long before you sell a firearm; in fact, before you receive your first firearm.  Surviving an ATF audit begins even before you apply for your FFL. You must understand that the ATF’s primary responsibility is Public Safety and that you as an […]

Why should you consider moving to Easy Bound Book®ERP? Many responsible parties are looking for better, more all-encompassing compliance management and Easy Bound Book ERP offers that.

ATF Headquarters has taken the position that there is only one proper way to forward disposition firearms from a bound book, like paper, to a new bound book system, like Easy Bound Book®. This is the process to move from one ATF bound book to another, based on our interpretation of what we read in […]

We have been actively involved in the firearms compliance arena for 16 years. We have seen a lot of strange things during that time and heard a lot of strange beliefs regarding ATF record-keeping.  Here are a few tips from our President, Ron Ketterling to help you with your electronic bound book compliance. 1. Be […]

ATF Rule 2021R-05F – “Frame or Receiver” The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed a lawsuit on August 11, 2022, challenging the ATF’s new Rule 2021R-05F. The FPC is challenging the rule on the basis that it would create new terms thus enacting new regulations for the agency to enforce. The FPC’s believes non-frames and non-receivers […]