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There’s no need for a great number of FFL’s to be inspected “every ‘n’ years.”
There are FFL’s who don’t sell firearms. Gunsmiths, for example, who have guns on their A/D bound books, but they’re not selling new guns. The customer brings in their gun(s) for service, and if the customer doesn’t pick up their gun by the end of the business day, it has to go into the bound book as an acquisition. When the customer reclaims their gun after service, it goes out as a disposition. Very simple stuff, most guns aren’t transferred between people, but the ATF regs require an A/D bound book.
Then there are the small time dealers - who might not make a sale more than a couple times per year. Not a big deal. Inspect them once every five years. Same for C&R FFL’s.
Where DC gets these idiotic notions of “what HAS to be done” is beyond me.