New internal documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have been leaked to Gun Owners of America (GOA) and AmmoLand News.
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New internal documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) have been leaked to Gun Owners of America (GOA) and AmmoLand News.
The three leaked documents involve privately manufactured firearms (PMF), machinegun conversion devices (MCD), and tracing guidance. Two of the documents were created on January 15, 2025, and all are classified as “controlled unclassified information/LEI.” These documents were distributed to law enforcement agencies across the nation.
The first document explains to the police how to report MCDs to the ATF National Tracing Center (NTC). The ATF has added a new “PMF/MCD Recovery Report” option within eTrace, an electronic database that the ATF administers to log guns from crime scenes. Before last month, eTrace did not have options to enter information for PMFs or MCDs.
