What's New
Section 923 of chapter 44 of title 18 requires persons wishing to be licensed to renew their license every three years. In order to renew their license, licensees must complete ATF Form 8 (5310.11) Part II to certify compliance with the provisions of the law for the FFL business. Information Collection (IC) OMB is being revised to include major material changes to the form, such as removal and addition of section items, grammatical changes (sentence rephrasing/statement modification) and instruction modification and clarification.
Information Collection (IC) OMB 1140–0036 (FFL Out of Business Records Request—ATF Form 5300.3A) is used by ATF to notify licensees who go out of business and fail to submit their records in the prescribed time frame. The questions are simple and a return physical or email address is provided. The format is easy for the user to list the required information ATF needs to perform its function regarding laws and regulations. Upon receipt of this form, licensees are to submit their records to the ATF Out-of-Business Records or transfer them to an active FFL successor. Information collection (IC) OMB #1140–0036 is being revised to reflect minor changes in narrative text to articulate more clearly what out- of-business records are required to be submitted, where they are to be submitted, and how they are to be submitted to the ATF OOBRC by OOB FFLs.
A key component of ATF's enforcement mission is the tracing of firearms on behalf of thousands of local, state, federal and international law enforcement agencies. Firearms trace data is critically important information developed by ATF. ATF has prepared state-by-state and international reports utilizing trace data which is intended to provide the public with insight into firearms recoveries.
The information collection is necessary for the safety of emergency response personnel responding to fires at sites where explosives are stored. Information Collection (IC) OMB 1140– 0071 is being revised to update the overall public burden, which includes the monetized value of the hour burden per response, an increase of respondents from 975 to 10,000, and increased postage cost from 49 cents to 73 cents. Together, these changes resulted in an increase in annual burden hours from 488 to 5,000, an annual monetized value of the hour burden increase to $223,950, and an annual increase in postage costs from $359 to $1,825.