Pathbound

Append-only ledger, one per license, hash-chained and independently verifiable. Consolidated acquisition and disposition records. Entry deadlines calculated per license type, frozen at the moment of entry and displayed on a countdown. Duplicate acquisitions blocked at the database. Manufacturing conversions recorded as the paired disposition-to-self and acquisition-from-self the rulings require, with the firearm remaining logged in throughout the work. Transfers between a licensee's own licenses recorded as full dispositions and acquisitions on both books, with a nightly reconciliation that catches any orphaned leg.

Customer-facing kiosk mode on a tablet. The customer's sections are never pre-populated from any prior transaction; the kiosk account has no ability to read a previous form at all. Answers stay amendable until the certification is executed, then lock permanently. Signatures are bound to one field on one form and cannot be reused. Completed forms are flattened, sealed, hashed, and written to write-once storage. Denied, cancelled, and expired transactions are retained the same as completed ones.

NICS transaction capture with the Brady transfer date calculated from the response, including the extended window for transferees under twenty-one. Wyoming Concealed Firearm Permit exception evaluated against all five statutory tests, including the one most often missed: the permit must have been issued within five years, not merely be unexpired. Approved National Firearms Act transfers recognized as a background check exception.

Records under 27 CFR 479.131 maintained alongside the Gun Control Act bound book for every NFA firearm. Form 2 manufacturing notice raised as a blocking obligation due the close of the next business day after manufacture. Serialization and marking recorded and verified before a Form 2 will print. Firearms on a pending Form 4 remain in inventory and on the books until the transfer actually occurs. Forms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5320.20 and 5320.23 generated pre-filled and print-ready; approved stamps attached to the record.

Form 6 permits tracked from application through approval and expiration. Customs release starts the fifteen-day marking clock and the fifteen-day acquisition-entry clock in parallel. An imported firearm cannot be disposed of or transferred to another license until the importer's name, city and state, country of manufacture, and a conforming serial number are all recorded as applied.

The bound book printed for any date range, any license, in original-entries-only, corrected-entries-only, or both-together form, with a chain verification stamp on every page. AFMER (Form 5300.11) generated for manufacturers with a backing worksheet naming every serial number behind every box, including the ones excluded and why. Multiple handgun sales detected across a five-business-day window and blocked from closing until Form 3310.4 is generated. Theft and loss reports. The complete out-of-business record package.

Offline capture at gun shows, with sequence numbers reserved before departure and any unused numbers voided on return with a written, hash-chained explanation, so no gap in the book is ever unexplained. Every away-from-premises entry records the location of the transaction.

Keeping records electronically starts with written notice to ATF. ATF Rul. 2022-01 requires sixty days' written notice to your ATF Industry Operations Area Office before Forms 4473 are kept electronically, for each license. Pathbound raises that notice as an obligation on the first day it runs, so it is not missed. If you use Pathbound, we can give you template notification letters to help you prepare and send them.