The ATF application for a C&R License is the same form that is used to apply for a dealer license -- the FFL. The original intent was to ensure that local police knew a gn dealer was about to sprout in their jurisdiction. Some COP's and sheriff's took the tme to ensure that the prospective dealer had a business license and a resale permit. Most just put them in a file and took no action. In the case of the C&R applicant, there is no real action implied for local agencies. The copy is simply a bureaucratic compliance with the ATF guidelines for ALL applicants for any license. Remember, we only think of the firearms licensing of ATF -- but they issue a bunch of other licenses -- brewers, tobacco processors, explosives handlers, etc. I think the ATF is at least considering a revised license application for the C&R. Regardless, the applicant is carefully scrutinized.
One other idea -- if you have an exising C&R, please ensure you check out the documentary record requirements and then keep them current and correct. I have a VGF who forgot to keep his records and the ATF came close to rem seizing his collection -- which included both C&R and "regular" pieces, many of which were acquired before he had his C&R. His records were inspected when a very kind ATF Enforcement Specialist knocked on the door and asked to see his FFL books. Discovering the reality that my friend only had a C&R, the ES offered a "courtesy review" of his books. The courtesy almost disappeared when my friend admitted he knew he had to keep records, but he had never gotten around to it. Too close.
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Regards,
MDCalvert
Tennessee
