Why Personal Firearm Records Matter
Legal Compliance and Proactive Legal Protection
Compliance software offers a streamlined and automated firearm system record, reducing the risk of human error and ensuring all information is accurate. For Federal Firearms Licensees, adherence to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) regulations is mandatory. This federal government agency sets regulations that require detailed logging of firearms transactions, including serial numbers, types of firearms, and information about the parties involved in the transaction.
Theft Prevention and Recovery
Having a secure personal firearm record helps prevent firearms from falling into the hands of criminals. Detailed records provide law enforcement agencies with the necessary information to recover stolen firearms and return them to their rightful owners.
Protecting Personal Information
Beyond the tracking of firearms themselves, secure record-keeping protects sensitive personal information of firearm buyers and sellers. This includes the names, addresses, and other identifiers that could lead to identity theft and other potential problems with privacy violations.
Enhancing Public Safety
By ensuring that firearm records are accurately maintained and securely stored, gun owners contribute to enhancing public safety. Secure records support responsible gun owners to prevent illegal firearm sales and aid in the enforcement of federal laws to keep communities safe.
Key Entries for Your Firearm Record
Firearm Details:
- Serial Number: The unique identifier for each firearm.
- Manufacturer and Model
- Type of Firearm: Classify as handgun, rifle, shotgun, etc.
- Caliber or Gauge: The ammunition size.
Transaction Information:
- Acquisition: Date and source from whom the firearm was acquired.
- Disposition: Date and receipt to whom the firearm was transferred or sold.
Compliance Information:
- ATF Form: Relevant ATF forms for transactions, if necessary.
- Measurements: Barrel length and overall length, if required.
Security & Privacy with FastBound
Unlike our competitors, FastBound is not a Federal Firearms License holder and we never will be! We don’t fill out the ATF Form 4473 for you, but we do help with all things compliance. By using FastBound, you are not voluntarily giving a competitor (or a group of competitors in some cases) your confidential information including your suppliers, customers, inventory, sales figures, actual cost of goods sold, etc.
Data Protection
FastBound protects files in transit between your web browser and our servers, and at rest:
- Data stored at rest is encrypted using 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, ensuring that your personal firearm information remains protected.
- To protect data in transit between your web browser and our servers, only Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used, creating a secure tunnel protected by 128-bit or higher Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
Authentication and Web Security Enhancements
To further protect you, FastBound flags authentication cookies as secure, HTTP-only and we enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which helps to protect websites against protocol downgrade attacks and cookie hijacking.
FastBound maintains an overall rating of A for the security certificate and configuration on our servers.
Exceeding ATF requirements of daily backups: FastBound backs up databases every 5-10 minutes. Database backups are encrypted using 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption.
Secure U.S Data Centers
FastBound is hosted in the United States, in data centers that:
- Have Department of Defense (DoD) Provisional Authorizations at Impact Levels 5, 4, and 2.
- Certifies the use of cryptographic modules, compliant with the US Federal Info Processing Standard 140-2.
- Maintains DoD certifications that meet and exceed US NIST 800-171 security requirements.
- Are compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Level 1.
Commitment to Privacy and Compliance
FastBound will never release any information about users or accounts unless legally compelled to do so. FastBound will never surrender any information without a court order, and only then, will we disclose the information specifically requested in the complaint.
ATF can examine these government records at the licensed premises at any time as part of any criminal investigation or to trace a firearm. In other words, it is easier for ATF to get information from you than it is from FastBound.
FastBound ensures your firearm log book is not only compliant with the latest regulations but also supports responsible firearm ownership. Start securing your firearm records today with FastBound!
