- more than 10,000 serial numbered items
- in West Virginia
- custodian is ATF’s Firearms Technology Industry Services Branch (FTISB)
- 1931 first compiled by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (later IRS)
- July 1972 collection transferred to ATF
- “National Firearms Collection” (NFC)
- rare, one-of-a-kind prototypes
- first run samples
- failed industry ideas
- highly collectible once-transferable ordnance pieces
- firearms and ammunition reference library
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