Only a fraction of the guns affected by the ATF’s new rule were registered with the agency during the four-month grace period that ended this week. [More]
I’m sure if Mike were still here he’d have a smuggling program going full tilt about now…
[Via Jess]
“ATF is unable to estimate the number of possessors of such firearms that used either of these methods to comply with the final rule,” he said. “Likewise, we have no data currently available for the number of firearms abandoned to ATF.”
To the best of my knowledge, none of the states that have enacted bans on so called assault weapons have published their post-ban compliance rates. I’m not expecting ATF to be any different.