ATF quietly laying groundwork to expand multiple rifle sales reporting

“Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until June 16, 2014,” the notice advises. [More]

UPDATE: A comment poster pointed out fine print: "Extension without change of an existing collection" which may mean this is limited to the border states--but the notice does not specifically say that, and does not indicate a subset of FFLs this will be required of. The "purpose" statement appears to apply to all. We'll need to watch and see. It's very unclear, and the lack of information means this is something that needs to be investigated to find out for sure.

UPDATE 2: I took the raised concern back to the attys I vetted this with and asked what we should make of "Extension without change of an existing collection." The answer: "I don't think anyone knows for sure, but as [name redacted] already stated, it is likely a precursor to a new rule being proposed."

A second replied “I do not see any information that limits the multiple rifle reporting to 'only' border states in the new collection. The OLD federal register actually stated only the border states. I believe this is going to apply to all FFLs."

I will continue to monitor and update this as relevant information is learned.

UPDATE 3: The estimated hours of burden on this new notice are the same as on the old one.