If you haven’t been audited in the last four years, you will be in the next four years.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (“BATF”) have increased their compliance inspection frequency almost fifty-fold over the last decade.  Per a 2010 Washington Post series called “Following the Gun,” many inspections resulted in FFL revocations or, more frequently, the non-renewal of the federal firearms license after three years.

As every retail firearms dealer knows, inconsistency in interpretation of the law leads to more mistakes by the dealer, and greater chances of losing their federal firearms license.  According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, sponsors of the SHOT SHOW each year, “[a] single violation, without warning, is enough” to have your FFL revoked.  Failure to engage a firearms savvy intermediary to intervene, fully assess all inspection activity, interface with ATF inspectors and agents throughout the process, and compare actions by ATF to inspections conducted elsewhere, could possibly result in the termination of a business that has thrived in the firearms industry for years.

And if this threat isn’t enough, there are plaintiffs who would hail you into their jurisdiction to review your business practices and sue you….