Proposed Bill Cuts ATF Budget, Drops Some NFA Items

[olfart]

New Funding Bill for DOJ Includes Big Cut to ATF Budget, Deregulation of Some NFA Items

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/...s-n1232370

[smb5769]

If it passes that looks lovely

[Rampy]

🚨 FPC LEGAL ALERT 🚨

The ATF has posted summaries of the new regulations, which include:

1) Repeal Biden's pistol brace rule
2) Revising "engaged in the business" rule
3) Revising machine gun definition in response to Cargill decision
4) Remove requirement for FFLs to post info about Youth Handgun Safety Act
5) Revising 4473 form, including allowing electronic forms and increase the time NICS checks remain valid
6) Allow FFLs to keep electronic records
7) Replace indefinite retention of 4473s with definite time periods of 20 or 30 years
8) Allow “Non-Over-the-Counter” firearm sales by FFLs to residents of the same state
9) Repeal interstate NFA transport notice requirement for trips under 365 days, with all others no longer requiring approval before transport
10) Joint NFA registration for married couples
11) Remove NFA CLEO notification
12) Clarify that "common, reasonably necessary activities during travel" are covered by FOPA transportation protection
13) Allow import of dual-use frames, receivers, and barrels
14) Clarify that "training rounds" are not ammunition
15) Eliminate engraving requirement for people making NFA firearms out of existing serialized guns
16) "Clarify that a person receiving assistance in only one functional area (such as financial management) would not, on that basis alone, be considered prohibited" under mental health disqualifier
17) Requiring biological sex on ATF Forms
18) Clarify when a transaction is a straw purchase
19) Formally define "willfully" for firearms violations
20) "Remove the list of former Soviet countries from which ATF currently denies applications to permanently import most firearms and ammunition, retaining only the Russian Federation"

[specops56]

Not holding my breath.

Terry

[srjdsmith]

Where are we at currently with pistol braces? For a while they were fair game. What are the current restrictions?

It seems we’re back to a pre ‘23 situation, but that’s just because the ATF is choosing not to enforce the Biden Brace Rule?

[Rampy]

Not holding my breath.

Terry

so happy and positive are you

[specops56]

Not holding my breath.

Terry

so happy and positive are you

Yep! I'm positive the ATF is not on our side and Congress are not our friend.

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me — you can't get fooled again."

Terry
fool
e once, shame on you; fool me — you can't get fooled again."

[Rampy]