Firearms Report Discontinued
by Biden Administration

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The Biden administration, with their takeover of the ATF, discontinued the publication of Firearms Commerce in the United States, without announcement. Firearms Commerce of the United States was last published in May of 2021, shortly after the Biden Administration took up residence in the White House. This correspondent, and many others, used the annual report as the basis of numerous articles about what was happening in the firearms industry. In January of 2023, at the SHOT SHOW in Las Vegas, this correspondent asked ATF representatives when the latest version of Firearms Commerce in the United States would be published. None had been published since 2021. This correspondent was assured the next version would be published in May of 2023>. None was forthcoming.

As far as this correspondent has been able to determine, no official notice of the discontinuance of the report was ever made. It appears even people inside the ATF did not know the report was discontinued, as they told this correspondent it would be forthcoming shortly.

One of the important statistics published in Firearms Commerce of the United States was the number of National Firearms Act (NFA) tax stamps issued and the number of various application forms approved. The numbers were published in detail by state and the total for the United States. A particularly important number is the number of silencers and other NFA items. The report showed where the number of approved applications for Form 1 (to make an NFA item, as well as approved applications to purchase and transfer NFA items.

These numbers tell us how many officially approved silencers and other NFA items were recognized as legally existing. The number is important. .....