ATF Safety and Security Information for Federal Firearms Licensees.

摘要

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Stolen Firearms Program was formally established on September 13, 1994, with the passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. For more than 20 years before this Act, ATF had been accepting voluntary reports of firearms lost/stolen from interstate shipments. This law created a statutory requirement for Federal firearms licensees (FFLs) to report the theft/loss of firearms from their inventories or collections. Pursuant to the 1994 legislation, federally-licensed firearms dealers are required to report the theft/loss of a firearm(s) from inventory or collection within 48 hours of the discovery of the theft or loss. In order to manage this new reporting, to support law enforcement efforts to recover these firearms, and to develop strategies to prevent future thefts/losses, the Stolen Firearms Program was created. ATF staff, utilizing innovative databases, manage thousands of reports of theft/loss containing the records of more than 200,000 firearms reported lost/stolen since 1994.