---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 478.42"
title: "27"
number: "478.42"
heading: "License fees."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/478.42"
---

# §478.42. License fees.


Each applicant shall pay a fee for obtaining a firearms license or ammunition license, a separate fee being required for each business or collecting activity at each place of such business or activity, as follows:

- (a) **For a manufacturer—**
  - (1) **Of destructive devices, ammunition for destructive devices or armor piercing ammunition—** $1,000 per year.
  - (2) **Of firearms other than destructive devices—** $50 per year.
  - (3) **Of ammunition for firearms other than ammunition for destructive devices or armor piercing ammunition—** $10 per year.
- (b) **For an importer—**
  - (1) **Of destructive devices, ammunition for destructive devices or armor piercing ammunition—** $1,000 per year.
  - (2) Of firearms other than destructive devices or ammunition for firearms other than destructive devices or ammunition other than armor piercing ammunition—$50 per year.
- (c) **For a dealer—**
  - (1) **In destructive devices—** $1,000 per year.
  - (2) **Who is not a dealer in destructive devices—** $200 for 3 years, except that the fee for renewal of a valid license shall be $90 for 3 years.
- (d) **For a collector of curios and relics—** $10 per year.

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-270, 53 FR 10494, Mar. 31, 1988, as amended by T.D. ATF-354, 59 FR 7112, Feb. 14, 1994]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a); 18 U.S.C. 847, 921-931; 44 U.S.C. 3504(h).

### Source

Source: 33 FR 18555, Dec. 14, 1968, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 15, 1975, and further redesignated by T.D. ATF-487, 68 FR 3750, Jan. 24, 2003.

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-270, 53 FR 10494, Mar. 31, 1988, as amended by T.D. ATF-354, 59 FR 7112, Feb. 14, 1994]