{"abstract":"The Department of Justice proposes amending Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) regulations that concern the making or transferring of a firearm under the National Firearms Act (NFA). The proposed changes include: Defining the term \"responsible person,\" as used in reference to a trust, partnership, association, company, or corporation; requiring \"responsible persons\" of such legal entities to submit, inter alia, photographs and fingerprints, as well as a law enforcement certificate, when the legal entity files an application to make an NFA firearm or is listed as the transferee on an application to transfer an NFA firearm; modifying the information required in a law enforcement certificate, so that the certificate no longer requires a statement from the certifying official that he or she has no information indicating that the maker or transferee of the NFA firearm will use the firearm for other than lawful purposes; and adding a new section to ATF's regulations to address the possession and transfer of firearms registered to a decedent. The new section would clarify that the executor, administrator, personal representative, or other person authorized under state law to dispose of property in an estate may possess a firearm registered to a decedent during the term of probate without such possession being treated as a \"transfer\" under the NFA. It also would specify that the transfer of the firearm to any beneficiary of the estate may be made on a tax-exempt basis.","action":"Notice of proposed rulemaking.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE","name":"Justice Department","id":268,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/justice-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/268","parent_id":null,"slug":"justice-department"},{"raw_name":"Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives","name":"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau","id":19,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives-bureau","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/19","parent_id":268,"slug":"alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives-bureau"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2013/09/09/2013-21661.html","cfr_references":[{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":479,"title":27}],"citation":"78 FR 55014","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":"2013-12-09","correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"Written comments must be postmarked and electronic comments must be submitted on or before December 9, 2013. Commenters should be aware that the electronic Federal Docket Management System will not accept comments after 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the last day of the comment period.","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":["Docket No. ATF 41P","AG Order No. 3398-2013"],"dockets":[],"document_number":"2013-21661","effective_on":null,"end_page":55029,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"full_text_xml_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2013/09/09/2013-21661.xml","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/09/09/2013-21661/machine-guns-destructive-devices-and-certain-other-firearms-background-checks-for-responsible","images":{},"images_metadata":{},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/2013-21661?publication_date=2013-09-09","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-2013-09-09/2013-21661/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":16,"page_views":{"count":27427,"last_updated":"2026-10-22 22:15:04 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2013-09-09/pdf/2013-21661.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2013-21661.pdf?1378471940","publication_date":"2013-09-09","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2013/09/09/2013-21661.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{"1140-AA43":{"issue":"201510","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/regulations/1140-AA43/machine-guns-destructive-devices-and-certain-other-firearms-background-checks-for-responsible-person","title":"Machine Guns, Destructive Devices and Certain Other Firearms; Background Checks for Responsible Persons of a Corporation, Trust, or Other Legal Entity With Respect to Making or Transferring a Firearm","xml_url":"http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201510&RIN=1140-AA43&operation=OPERATION_EXPORT_XML","priority_category":"Other Significant"}},"regulation_id_numbers":["1140-AA43"],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{"checked_regulationsdotgov_at":"2013-11-05T05:01:57Z"},"regulations_dot_gov_url":null,"significant":true,"signing_date":null,"start_page":55014,"subtype":null,"title":"Machine Guns, Destructive Devices and Certain Other Firearms; Background Checks for Responsible Persons of a Corporation, Trust or Other Legal Entity With Respect To Making or Transferring a Firearm","toc_doc":"Background Checks for Responsible Persons of a Corporation, Trust or Other Legal Entity with Respect to Making or Transferring a Firearm","toc_subject":"Machine Guns, Destructive Devices and Certain Other Firearms:","topics":["Administrative practice and procedure","Arms and munitions","Customs duties and inspection","Exports","Imports","Military personnel","Penalties","Reporting and recordkeeping requirements","Research","Seizures and forfeitures","Transportation"],"type":"Proposed Rule","volume":78}