specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
providerId: bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives-atf-
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-05'
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  Searched atf.gov, regulations.atf.gov and the ATF ArcGIS Hub open-data site on
  2026-09-05 for any pricing, plan, tier, quota or signup page. None exists.
tags:
  - Federal Government
  - Open Data
  - Public Domain
plan_count: 0
plans: []
description: >-
  ATF has no plans and no pricing, and that is the correct finding rather than a
  gap. It is a U.S. federal law-enforcement agency publishing public data under
  17 U.S.C. 105; the API surface is anonymous, free, and has no signup, no key
  issuance, no metering and no billing relationship of any kind. There is no
  enterprise "contact us" tier either — there is nobody to contact about API
  access because access is unconditional.
  THIS FILE REPLACES A FABRICATION. The 2026-05-04 bulk sweep wrote three invented
  tiers here — "Free" at 1,000 requests/month, "Professional" at 100,000/month
  with a "TBD" overage price, and an "Enterprise" tier offering "Custom Data
  Residency", "Contractual SLA" and a "Dedicated Account Manager" — none of which
  ATF has ever offered, alongside elements ("Sandbox Access", "Webhook
  Subscriptions") for capabilities that do not exist. All of it has been removed.
access_model:
  pricing: free
  cost: '0.00'
  currency: USD
  onboarding: none
  signup_required: false
  trial: not-applicable
  public: true
  rights: >-
    Works of the U.S. Government are not subject to domestic copyright protection
    (17 U.S.C. 105). The ArcGIS datasets additionally carry an ATF "as is" no-warranty
    disclaimer in their licenseInfo, quoted verbatim in
    data-portal/bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives-atf--dcat-us.json.
evidence:
  - url: https://regulations.atf.gov/api/regulation
    status: 200
    detail: Returns data with no credential, no account and no payment.
  - url: https://services6.arcgis.com/PrP5ZtrES07DmVmv/arcgis/rest/services/Federal_Firearm_Licensees_locations/FeatureServer/0/query?where=1%3D1&returnCountOnly=true&f=json
    status: 200
    detail: ArcGIS item access is "public"; anonymous query returns 77,514.
  - url: https://opendata-atf-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/data.json
    status: 200
    detail: >-
      Open-data catalog with downloadable CSV/GeoJSON/KML/Shapefile distributions,
      no paywall.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com