Data released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this week show a huge jump in National Firearms Act items to include a 39 percent rise in the number of silencers and a 32 percent bump in short barreled rifles registered.
The information comes from the new Firearms Commerce Report, which contains information about domestic firearms manufacturing, as well as the importation and exportation of firearms.
Sweeping in its context, the report also gives the public a rare glimpse into the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, which is the federal list of all items, such as suppressors, SBRs, short-barreled shotguns, destructive devices and any other weapons logged under the NFA as of February 2015.
Comparing last year’s report with the new information shows the number of suppressors and SBRs registered on the NFRTR have jumped by a third in the past year. While the numbers for those two classes rose dramatically, the figures for all Title II weapons rose despite increased scrutiny from the nation’s firearms regulators. In all, over a half million new devices were added to the registry.
This translated into $27.5 million paid to ATF in 2014 through Special Occupation Taxes from over 3,700 NFA manufacturers and in transfer and making taxes. A total of 1.3 million forms were processed for these devices, a rate of over 3,500 per day, every day.
Suppressor advocates were impressed with the data coming from ATF, which show a continuation of the growing popularity of the devices.
“For the 11-month period that the NFA portion covers, the suppressor market grew more than it did in the previous two years combined,” Knox Williams, president of the American Suppressor Association, told Guns.com Tuesday.
Williams pointed out that 41 states to include Minnesota and Vermont – both of which recently changed their local laws – now allow civilian ownership of NFA-compliant suppressors.
“This unprecedented growth is in large part due to educa
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