ATF Releases 2024 Fact Sheet - Facts and Figures for Fiscal Year 2024

The ATF released their 2024 Facts and Figures Fact Sheet on their website. The fact sheet is very interesting and presents the ammount of cases, FFL Licenses given, Inspections, etc.  The NFA realted information is below. The ATF took in $145 million dollars for tax stamps alone and process 1 million ATF Form 1/ATF Form 4/ATF Form 5 applications. The fact sheet doesn't give the form breakdowns, but either way it is an impressive amount of applications. For more information or to view the entire fact sheet, please refer to the 2024 Fact Sheet here.

National Firearms Act (NFA)

NFA registration applications (and transfer applications) received  1,170,028
NFA registrations processed count of forms  1,373,305
NFA registrations processed (total weapons)/count of weapons  4,731,918
NFA making and transfer tax collected  $145,072,242
NFA special occupation tax collected  $10,438,289

Note: All taxes collected for NFA go to the general fund of the U.S. Treasury Department.     

Source:  “Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.” Fact Sheet - Facts and Figures for Fiscal Year 2024 | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 1 Mar. 2025, www.atf.gov/resource-center/fact-sheet/fact-sheet-facts-and-figures-fiscal-year-2024.

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