State Gun Laws
FFLAssist does not just check ATF/Federal compliance. Did you know it also checks state compliance?
That’s right! FFLAssist comes delivered with a predefined set of state gun law compliance checking. FFLAssist checks whether or not there is a law on each state’s books for the majority of gun laws found at the state level…the ones that are in our public consciousness.
The checking for specific laws is done via a series of checkmarks. If a law exists in a particular state, then the checkbox is checked. If the same law does not exist in another state, then the checkbox is not checked.
If a state has a unique law that is only found in the books of that state, compliance with that law is not checked for such unique laws found only in one state and not the rest of them. Let’s suppose a state has a law on its books like “You are prohibited from buying guns on Sundays until after 3:00 pm.” This is such a specific law that there would need to be an FFLAssist team of researchers and developers to interpret the law and program compliance into the application.
Rather, FFLAssist sticks with larger laws…those that are regularly in the public consciousness across the country, such as “Concealed Carry laws”, “High Capacity Magazine laws”, and the like. Below are two screenshots of some states and the laws for which FFLAssist checks compliance. If the checkbox is checked, that state has a law on its books for the category in question, and compliance is checked. Otherwise, if the checkbox is not checked, the state does not have a law for the category in question, and compliance is not checked.
The screenshot above is the left side of the State Compliance page of FFLAssist.
The screenshot above is the right side of the State Compliance page.
Now, when I showed this state gun law compliance functionality to the retired ATF agent I hired to bless this application, he said to me, “So how are you going to manage all the changing state gun laws?” I responded with “I’m not. The system will be delivered with a set of state laws at the time the dealer subscribes to the FFLAssist application, and any subsequent changes to those state laws will be the responsibility of each FFLAssist dealer in those states.”
This means that if you are a California dealer, you will be responsible for monitoring and changing the compliance condition as necessary for the state of California (highlighted in the screenshots above), as changes to the law go into effect. If you look at the lower of the two screenshots, California has a Long Gun Age Requirement to be 18 years of age. If the California law changes and the age to buy a long gun in California jumps to 21 years old, it will be the responsibility of FFLAssist’s California subscribers to update this field value from “18” to “21”. There is no way the FFLAssist team can monitor such changes across all 50 states and U.S. territories.
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