Comment on FR Doc # 2026-08916

RE: Docket: ATF-2026-0133 | Agency: Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau (ATF) On behalf of Knife Rights, Inc., a nationwide organization dedicated to providing knife owners with a voice in public policy, we strongly support ATF RIN 1140-AA73. We firmly believe that people traveling with ANY constitutionally protected arm must be able to safely and securely travel across the United States with that arm. This revision to the regulations governing section 926A of the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA, part of the Firearm Owner Protection Act or FOPA) is necessary to allow citizens to legally transport their protected firearms across state lines with the expectation of uniformity and reasonable enforcement in and of the federal law while doing so. Numerous states including New Jersey and New York have blatantly violated the rights of arms owners for decades, including our members (knife owners), whose arms also deserve to be protected. To that end Knife Rights has worked with members of Congress to introduce the Knife Owners Protection Act (KOPA – H.R. 60 & S. 346) which would echo the protections in 926A of the GCA and goes further such that it also encompasses the same sort of commonsense exceptions proposed in this rulemaking. Although we certainly would like FOPA to apply to knives, and for that matter, all arms that are legal where the journey begins and ends, even if it doesn’t, we offer our full-throated support for RIN 1140-AA73 to model reasonable enforcement practice and will continue our work to pass and enact KOPA. Doug Ritter Chairman, Knife Rights, Inc.