NFA Trade & Collectors Association

What NFA Trade & Collectors Association does

NFA Trade & Collectors Association (NFATCA) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association founded in 2003 and headquartered in Katy, Texas, that represents the National Firearms Act community of collectors, dealers, manufacturers, and importers in the United States. The organization engages daily with legislators, regulators (primarily ATF's NFA Division), and other stakeholders to advance regulatory reform priorities, including the publication's stated BOLD Agenda of repealing the Hughes Amendment, removing suppressors and short-barreled weapons from the NFA, rolling back ITAR, and securing additional amnesty registration periods. Its most consequential regulatory outcome to date is the elimination of the CLEO approval process, which took roughly a decade of sustained advocacy.

NFATCA's core products include the NFA Handbook — produced by NFATCA and published as an official BATF reference — The Partisan newsletter, the NFATCA Library (a curated digital repository of BATF guidance documents, rulings, letters, forms, and Small Arms Review article reprints), and an advocacy collaboration with ATF's NFA Division on the eForms system targeting 90-day approval times. An affiliated 501(c)(3) entity, NFATCA Foundation, Inc., was established in 2020 to handle charitable and educational programming, including preservation of NFA heritage.

Revenue is generated exclusively from tiered membership dues: Associate ($50/year), Supporting ($250/year), Benefactor ($500/year), and Silver Patron ($1,000/year), plus a $99 bundle combining Associate membership with a Basic Gun Trust. Membership is sold through an online credit card gateway (Authorize.net), phone, mail-in application, and email signup. The organization operates with 1–10 employees, is not venture-backed, and is governed by a volunteer board drawn from NFA-industry operators.

Name

NFA Trade & Collectors Association

Legal name

NFATCA (National Firearms Act Trade & Collectors Association)

Website

https://nfatca.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

NFATCA is a 501(c)(6) trade association founded in 2003 that represents U.S. NFA firearms collectors, dealers, manufacturers, and importers through tiered membership dues, regulatory advocacy, and educational resources including the official BATF NFA Handbook.

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akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Katy

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Annual membership dues at multiple tier levels including Associate ($50), Supporting ($250), Benefactor ($500), Silver Patron ($1,000), and a special combined Associate + Basic Gun Trust offer ($99). Members can order up to three years at one time.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

NFATCA is a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association representing the National Firearms Act (NFA) community of collectors, dealers, manufacturers, and importers. The organization delivers advocacy with legislators and regulators, educational resources including the official NFA Handbook, regulatory guidance, and member communications to advance NFA community interests.

Product overview

NFATCA (National Firearms Act Trade & Collectors Association) is a 501(c)(6) membership organization serving the NFA community of collectors, dealers, manufacturers, and importers. The organization offers its members access to the official NFA Handbook (produced by NFATCA as an official BATF publication), The Partisan Newsletter, and the comprehensive NFATCA Library containing BATF guidance, rulings, letters, forms, and Small Arms Review reprints. Membership tiers range from Associate ($50/year) to Silver Patron ($1000/year), with special offers including gun trust services. NFATCA also runs advocacy initiatives including the Amnesty Drive campaign for NFA registration periods and collaborates with ATF on eForms system improvements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• NFATCA Membership Organizational membership with multiple tiers (Associate $50/year, Supporting $250/year, Benefactor $500/year, Silver Patron $1,000/year) plus a special Associate + Basic Gun Trust offer at $99, providing advocacy representation, regulatory resources, and member communications.
• NFA Handbook Official BATF publication produced by NFATCA serving as the authoritative reference guide for National Firearms Act regulations and compliance for collectors, dealers, manufacturers, and importers.
• The Partisan Newsletter

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FFLBossendorsedGTM or Marketing PartnerNFATCA proudly endorses FFLBoss for all member licensees, providing recommended services to members.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Gun Owners of America (GOA): A no-compromise firearms advocacy organization active in federal lobbying on NFA items. Directly comparable to NFATCA in its regulatory-advocacy focus and member-driven grassroots model.
• National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF): The trade association for the firearms industry, representing manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and ranges. Comparable to NFATCA as a firearms-industry membership body that lobbies regulators and produces compliance/reporting resources, but operating at a broader firearms-industry scale rather than NFA-specific.
• National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR): A firearms rights lobbying organization focused on federal and state legislative outcomes. Operates a similar grassroots-driven advocacy and membership model as NFATCA across the same regulatory agenda.
• Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC): A firearms policy advocacy organization pursuing legal and legislative reforms including NFA-related deregulatory work. Comparable to NFATCA as a focused advocacy body on firearms regulation, including suppressor and SBR issues that intersect NFATCA's BOLD agenda.
• American Suppressor Association (ASA): A trade association specifically focused on advancing suppressor ownership through the Hearing Protection Act and consumer education. Highly comparable to NFATCA — both are niche NFA-subcategory associations advocating for removing specific items from the National Firearms Act.
• Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA): A firearms rights advocacy organization with significant PAC activity and federal lobbying on NFA-adjacent regulatory issues. Adjacent to NFATCA in mission and approach to ATF-driven regulatory threats.

Broad incumbents

• Second Amendment Foundation (SAF): A long-standing firearms rights organization that pursues litigation, education and advocacy, including for NFA-related reforms. Broader and more litigation-heavy than NFATCA but overlapping in the same community and legislative agenda space.
• National Rifle Association of America (NRA): The largest U.S. firearms rights organization, with broader scope than NFATCA but overlapping interests in NFA reform. NFATCA specifically partners with NRA Annual Meetings for member outreach, indicating direct event-level comparability.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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Investments

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