The answer is that it was approved on 09 June. So about 174 days from check cashed to approved, adding about 3 weeks on both ends to account for time of purchase to stamp received. 7ish months total. Pretty atrocious conceptually, but I had no plans to start calling the ATF to check until October. Good job exceeding my extraordinarily low expectations I guess?
You get a refund, then you go and do what a few of us told you to do. You were screwed because you wanted convenience, instead of doing it the way the ATF says you have to do it. Unfortunately you have nobody to blame but yourself for using Silencer Shop to do the submission for you. Harsh lesson to be learned.
I'm not ragging on you, I had to learn a similar lesson from a less than acceptable CS person. It's just a lesson learned is all.
I think it comes down to upper management trying to decide if SS can file a Form 1 on somebody's behalf and then when they see how many there are, they dropped the hammer and said "NO!" because SS isn't actually the manufacturer of the items.
