Will Trump Administration of Form 1 Applications
Reform Illegal Changes Made During Biden Admin?

In 2022, the ATF changed the procedures for filling out a Form 1 to make your own silencer. The ATF denied about 850 applications. The ATF claimed "Solvent Traps" were actually suppressors, and started denying Form 1 applications, and requiring much more information about how a silencer was to be manufactured, and what parts would be used to make the silencer. Senators and representatives sent two letters, one from representatives, and one from senators to the Biden ATF asking for clarifications of what the ATF was doing. Here is an excerpt from the Senate letter submitted to ATF on March 16, 2022

We request answers to the following questions:

• 1. Please explain why the ATF is denying Form 1 applications for silencers.
• 2. Please explain whether these denials reflect a change in policy in how the ATF regulates self-made silencers.
• 3. Please explain what the ATF has done to inform the American people of its position regarding a Form 1 application and devices it believes are silencer "kits," so that law abiding Americans can attempt to comply with the law.

4. Please explain how the ATF evaluates whether a Form 1 application for a silencer is going to be used for a kit that, in ATF's view, is already legally a silencer. ......" …