• 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

http://www.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=1420

Small Arms Review V11N4 (January 2008)