Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms salaries and expenses For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms including purchase of (not to exceed three hundred and fifty of which three hundred shall be for replacement only, for police-type use), and hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; and services of expert witnesses at such rates as may be determined by the Director; $131,322,000: Provided, That no funds appropriated herein shall be available for administrative expenses in connection with consolidating or centralizing within the Department of the Treasury the records of receipt and disposition of firearms maintained by Federal firearms licensees or for issuing or carrying out any provisions of the proposed rules of the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, on Firearms Regulations, as published in the Federal Register, volume 43, number 55, of March 21, 1978.