FastBound
👤 Jason Smith & Jarad Haselton (Haselton was an FFL dealer; Smith built compliance software at Microsoft & Citibank. Insiders who lived the ATF audit fear.)🌐 site
US law forces every gun dealer to log every firearm and file a 4473. FastBound is the ATF-compliant cloud that runs it.
Will it work? · our read
Mandated demand. But the moat is also the cage: US FFLs are a finite, politically volatile niche, and one ATF rule change or payment-processor purge can reprice the whole market overnight.
01How the money moves
US law: every FFL must log every gun (A&D book) + file a 4473
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FastBound runs it in an ATF-2016-1 cloud, audit-ready, integrated
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FFLs pay monthly by inventory volume; legal defense locks them in
02The numbers
10,000+StatedFFLs since 2010
2010
1B+ compliance transactions processed since 2010; pricing from $9/mo, tiered by volume. fastbound.com
$2-5M/yr est · bootstrapped, never disclosed
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FastBound — homepage & product (electronic A&D, 4473)ATF Ruling 2016-1 — requirements to keep firearms records electronicallyFastBound — how it meets ATF 2016-1FastBound — guaranteed legal defense (FFLGuard)Capterra — FastBound pricing from $9/mo
Revenue is EST, not disclosed. FastBound has never published financials; the $2-5M/yr range is inferred from its first-party "over 10,000 FFLs since 2010" (cumulative, not active) and public tiered pricing (from $9/mo) — treat it as a rough guess, not a figure. First-party and verifiable: founded 2010; founders Jason Smith (built bank/healthcare compliance software) and Jarad Haselton (a former FFL dealer); 1.5M 4473s processed in 2024 (about 10% of NSSF adjusted NICS, FastBound's own claim); 1B+ transactions; attorney-backed legal defense via FFLGuard; ATF-2016-1 compliance. No drama was invented — this is an insider-access and execution story, not a plot twist. We never score you.