Robert K. Merting - Attorney at Law
Trust Your Guns: A firearms, business, and ITAR knowledgeable law practice
General information on the NFA.
When you own firearms regulated by the National Firearm Act (NFA), you must remain aware of your continuing obligations to the ATF. One of these obligations is securing written permission from the ATF before traveling out of state. The NFA Guns Affected This permission is not required of all NFA firearms, but only certain types. Specifically, you must properly Read More …
If you own a SBR based on the AR platform chances are you have, or are tempted to buy, multiple uppers for the firearm. This is just fine if you follow a few technicalities. First: The Firearm A short barreled rifle (SBR) is defined as a rifle with a barrel less than 16” in length. Read More …
Clients commonly ask, “what are the chief benefits of a Gun Trust today.” With recent changes in NFA law requiring all purchasers to submit fingerprints and other documentation for a background check, the benefits are not as immediate as they used to be. However the longterm and most important benefits have remained the same. In a Read More …
Representative Jeff Duncan (R, SC) made news in the gun community early January when he introduced H.R.367 – The Hearing Protection Act. The bill is a reintroduction of the original “Hearing Protection Act” introduced in October of 2015. The Legal Effect So what would the bill do if it becomes law? In short, it would Read More …
Without fail, every client wants to know how long they can expect to wait for their NFA Firearm transfer to be approved. While we all want to take our SBR and suppressor (silencer for some of y’all) home as soon as possible, we know we must wait for the ATF to approve. Wait Times from Read More …