Urgent Pennsylvania Firearm Retailer Alert

NSSF^® has recently learned from multiple members that the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General (OAG) Gun Violence Task Force has made requests that Pennsylvania FFLs provide the OAG with copies of their completed Forms 3310.4 (Report of Multiple Sale or Other Disposition of Pistols and Revolvers).

While the decision whether to cooperate with such requests is at each FFL’s discretion, you should be aware that you are under no legal obligation to provide this information to the Pennsylvania OAG.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has advised the following as to FFL obligations regarding Form 3310.4:

“Reports of Multiple Sales of Handguns (ATF Form 3310.4) are required by the Gun Control Act (GCA), 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, to be submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) by a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) whenever the FFL sells or otherwise disposes two or more handguns within five consecutive business days to an unlicensed person. Such reports are also to be forwarded to the department of State police or other applicable State-level law enforcement agency or to a local law enforcement agency of the local jurisdiction in which a multiple handgun sale has taken place.

State or local agencies that receive these reports must comply with Section 923(g)(3)(B) of the GCA which:

(1) Prohibits State/local law enforcement agencies that receive Reports of Multiple Sales of Handguns from disclosing the forms or the contents to any person or entity;

(2) Requires such agencies (except in the case of forms regarding a purchaser prohibited under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) or (n)) to destroy the form and records of the contents of the form no more than 20 days from the date of receipt; and

(3) Requires State/local law enforcement agencies to certify biannually to the Attorney General that (a) no disclosure contrary to the foregoing provisions has been made and that (b) all forms and records of the contents have been destroyed as provided by the law.”