Update on Proposed ATF Trust Regulation

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The American Silencer Association met with BATFE and has an update on the proposed 41P regulation. There were 9,504 comments submitted with around 1,000 of them disqualified for vulgarity or irrelevance. However, BATFE is apparently required to address each qualified comment in writing, which is going to take some time. BATFE told ASA it may be over a year before they address the regulation as a result:
http://americansilencerassociation.com/an-update-on-41p/
 
That's excellent news.
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Not really, its kind of like "the hanging has been postponed while we go buy a new rope".

Best we can hope for is major victory in 2014 in House and Senate and maybe start to turn things around.
 
I do think it's excellent news. The fear was that the regulations could pass any day. There was discussion of something happening before June.

Now we're hearing that there were so many comments, and that because of their requirement to respond to each one, it could be a year or more before any action is taken.

I see your point that it appears to be a temporary reprieve. However, it's a longer temporary than was expected previously. And we may well find that as they go through and begin responding to these comments, the proposed regulations change for the better. That's a year longer for folks like the ASA to lobby the ATF.

Frankly, I don't think partisan politics plays into this very much, either. Sure, it's a Democratic executive branch that's proposing regulations, but I don't see a single person from the other side of the aisle raising the alarm bells. I don't think any of our elected representatives care about owners of Title II firearms. No one seems likely to stick up for us if we don't stick up for ourselves.

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Yeah.... I didn't use vulgarity either but did mention ROTFLMAO regarding felons spending the time and money forming a Trust or Corporation and mailing the ATF 200.00 and waiting 7 months so they can legally register their unlawfully possessed firearm. I asked to see their study that identifies how often this happens, which my guess is never. :rolleyes: This is likely the most ridiculous gun related claim I have ever heard. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't see Obama deliver the news personally at a new conference. Oh well.
 
That is good news indeed. I'm just now starting the process of getting my trust in place and making some orders. Glad to know the rug isn't being pulled out from under my feet in the next few months at least.
 
Well, I selfishly think of it as good news because maybe the stamps I applied for in April 2013 may possibly have come through by then.
 
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