bobthefisher
Durka ninja
eForms just crashed... again
"503 - Service Temporarily Unavailable"
"503 - Service Temporarily Unavailable"
"Priority Processing" duh ;D I wonder how priority works in regards of the forms. Does that mean a good portion of their staff will be working on Form 3/4s while Form 1s take a back seat regardless of paper/efile?
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I just got in and it functioned uncharacteristically well.
I just got in and it functioned uncharacteristically well.
When did you buy it?
the form as sent mid November. Don't have the paperwork in front of me for an exact date.
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So I got a call from 2a today. My sparrow is approved. Apparently they are working on eforms. Unfortunately I can't pick it up until Tuesday.
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Congrats!
Bumping an old thread. The Efile system has been down for 3 straight days. I know there is a scheduled outage every Wednesday.
Anyone have any experience with these outages and when they might be back up? I got a form 1 I want to submit!
https://www.atfonline.gov/EformsOutage/
I've got an e-filed Form 1 that's been sitting at ATF since the middle of April. Just for fun I try to visit the e-file site to check on it. Yeah, it's been down for longer than usual, and who knows when it'll wake back up. I've swapped (more!) email with contact there, who is trying to find out why we're heading into our third month of getting this e-Form-1 processed, and she says they're "waiting on guidance from upper management on these." It's the ATF. I should know better than to expect smooth sailing.
I wonder what "waiting on guidance" means. Safe to assume they are not processing any form 1's then?
I can't get a straight answer. They've been telling me that ATF "upper management" needs to "provide guidance" for a month now, ever since I started checking into why something that most people report taking roughly a month was taking a lot longer. I have to retreat into my more familiar "try to forget you even sent them the $200 and some day something will happen" stance, as developed when waiting on Form 4 processing. Thought e-filed 1 would be less painful. Learned my lesson!
I've got an e-filed Form 1 that's been sitting at ATF since the middle of April. Just for fun I try to visit the e-file site to check on it. Yeah, it's been down for longer than usual, and who knows when it'll wake back up. I've swapped (more!) email with contact there, who is trying to find out why we're heading into our third month of getting this e-Form-1 processed, and she says they're "waiting on guidance from upper management on these." It's the ATF. I should know better than to expect smooth sailing.
I can't get a straight answer. They've been telling me that ATF "upper management" needs to "provide guidance" for a month now, ever since I started checking into why something that most people report taking roughly a month was taking a lot longer. I have to retreat into my more familiar "try to forget you even sent them the $200 and some day something will happen" stance, as developed when waiting on Form 4 processing. Thought e-filed 1 would be less painful. Learned my lesson!
You ever stop and consider that eForm 1's were for the people that knew what they were doing and didn't need SilencerShop to hold their hand and take 30 bucks, or whatever they are charging, for the privilege of submitting a eForm 1? On top of that, is it entirely possible that SilencerShop dumped a few thousand on the ATF in a single day and most people filled them out like a Form 4?
Then there is the other problem on it. If SilencerShop files a eForm 1 on your behalf, who is actually the manufacturer of the NFA item? Is it the entity on the paperwork or the company that acts like a middle man? The ATF doesn't know the answer to that question.
Instead of blaming the ATF for problems with your application, ask yourself what are the possibilities that caused this delay to occur.
Next time don't play with the SilencerShop eForm 1 submission, just go and do it on your own on the ATF website.