current ATF wait time

DaemonAssassin · Jun 21, 2020

fbi_surveillance_van said:
Silencershop has been beta testing eForm1s for a couple months now. Twice now that I remember, they've released a set amount. Unfortunately they seem to sell out in minutes or seconds, otherwise I'd be doing 2 or 3 more through them.

Allow me to be brutally honest with you. Do the electronic Form 1 on your own at the ATF eform site. Embrace the suck and do it. 17-35 day turn around is a beautiful thing. I'm down to 8 minutes to complete a Form 1 electronically.

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woodline · Jun 21, 2020

DaemonAssassin said:
Allow me to be brutally honest with you. Do the electronic Form 1 on your own at the ATF eform site. Embrace the suck and do it. 17-35 day turn around is a beautiful thing. I'm down to 8 minutes to complete a Form 1 electronically.

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Understand the sentiment but Silencershop does my single shot trusts for me, fingerprints, etc. I have plenty of NFA items to keep me busy until they get themselves sorted out or I end up having time to order fingerprinting supplies, figure out how to fingerprint myself, and get a normal trust set up. 2 of the items I need to eventually SBR are set up as pistols for now and doing fine, and I haven't 100% decided which shotgun I own is going to become an SBS and host the SilencerCo Salvo that I'll probably be waiting on for another 6-8 months.

Slim · Jun 24, 2020

eForms Form 1

Trust, 1 Responsible Person

Destructive Device

Submitted: 5/28/20
Prints received: 6/1/20
Approved: 6/24/20

OLM-Medic · Jun 24, 2020

fbi_surveillance_van said:
Understand the sentiment but Silencershop does my single shot trusts for me, fingerprints, etc. I have plenty of NFA items to keep me busy until they get themselves sorted out or I end up having time to order fingerprinting supplies, figure out how to fingerprint myself, and get a normal trust set up. 2 of the items I need to eventually SBR are set up as pistols for now and doing fine, and I haven't 100% decided which shotgun I own is going to become an SBS and host the SilencerCo Salvo that I'll probably be waiting on for another 6-8 months.

fingerprints are easy.

woodline · Jun 25, 2020

OLM-Medic said:
fingerprints are easy.

Lots of things in life are easy. Cheap, too. All they cost is time.

JohnnyE · Jun 25, 2020

fbi_surveillance_van said:
Lots of things in life are easy. Cheap, too. All they cost is time.

While I can only speak for myself, as I've gotten older and more accomplished in my field, I am becoming increasingly concerned over the time and quality factors, and more willing to focus less on the money factor. :rolleyes:

SkiPatrolDude · Jun 25, 2020

DaemonAssassin said:
Allow me to be brutally honest with you. Do the electronic Form 1 on your own at the ATF eform site. Embrace the suck and do it. 17-35 day turn around is a beautiful thing. I'm down to 8 minutes to complete a Form 1 electronically.

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Just submitted my first form 1 for an SBR.

Was easy to complete, pay and submit. At this point do I wait for them to send me the form to attach prints to? What do I need to do to get the prints to them? I got a "draft" copy of my submitted form, but don't see anything to mail prints with.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks,

DaemonAssassin · Jun 25, 2020

SkiPatrolDude said:
Just submitted my first form 1 for an SBR.

Was easy to complete, pay and submit. At this point do I wait for them to send me the form to attach prints to? What do I need to do to get the prints to them? I got a "draft" copy of my submitted form, but don't see anything to mail prints with.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks,

You'll get a cover letter in your email. Print it out and take 2 fingerprint cards to the post office and mail the cover letter and prints to the address on the cover letter. Do it asap. You have 10 days to mail the prints to them. You are required to use the FBI fingerprint cards.

SkiPatrolDude · Jun 25, 2020

DaemonAssassin said:
You'll get a cover letter in your email. Print it out and take 2 fingerprint cards to the post office and mail the cover letter and prints to the address on the cover letter. Do it asap. You have 10 days to mail the prints to them. You are required to use the FBI fingerprint cards.

Thanks! So far I have gotten two emails - one was the Application Submission Notification and another about 2 hours later, just a "Welcome to the ATF eForms system". I presume a third should follow with the cover letter over the next day or so.

DaemonAssassin · Jun 25, 2020

SkiPatrolDude said:
Thanks! So far I have gotten two emails - one was the Application Submission Notification and another about 2 hours later, just a "Welcome to the ATF eForms system". I presume a third should follow with the cover letter over the next day or so.

Look for the one that has a pdf attachment. One of the attachments will be the cover letter with a bar code near the top.

SkiPatrolDude · Jun 25, 2020

So I realize why my cover letter hasn’t arrived. I have a DDM4V7P, but in their drop down menus, they only have it as a 300blk and no option for 5.56, so I added my own.

This has caused them to go into “pending research” mode, because now they have to make sure my firearm actually exists.

Sigh. Anyone ever have this happen and know the approx turnaround time?

Chriss · Jun 25, 2020

I called a few days ago. Discovered i was approved in April...but "there is a delay in sending out the stamps" I hate Government

woodline · Jun 26, 2020

My dealer emailed me to let me know that the stamp just showed up for a TurboK I ordered in December. Will be curious to see when it was actually approved.

Slim · Jun 26, 2020

eForms Form 1

Trust, 1 Responsible Person

Short Barreled Rifle (Rifles, 4)

Submitted: 5/28/20
Prints received: 6/1/20
Approved: 6/25/20

engineerbrian · Jun 26, 2020

SkiPatrolDude said:
So I realize why my cover letter hasn’t arrived. I have a DDM4V7P, but in their drop down menus, they only have it as a 300blk and no option for 5.56, so I added my own.

This has caused them to go into “pending research” mode, because now they have to make sure my firearm actually exists.

Sigh. Anyone ever have this happen and know the approx turnaround time?

I had it happen a few years ago. Its not really a big deal and at the time it only added a few weeks to the wait.

Slim · Jun 26, 2020

eForms Form 1

Trust, 1 Responsible Person

Short Barreled Rifle

Submitted: 5/28/20
Prints received: 6/1/20
Examiner emailed: 6/24/20:

Good morning,

I am working your EFORM 1 application. Please load another copy of the Responsible Person Questionnaire. The one in there won’t open. Please let me know when this is completed.

Thanks!

New RP form 5320.23 uploaded: 6/25/20
Approved: 6/26/20

Occam · Jun 26, 2020

Grrr. This is making my more-than-two-months-and-counting e-1 wait even more maddening!

ST19AG_WGreymon · Jun 27, 2020

Occam said:
Grrr. This is making my more-than-two-months-and-counting e-1 wait even more maddening!

I'm hearing that SilencerShop screwed the pooch on this one. There are a lot of people who submitted Form 1s through SS that are having this delay. Sorry to hear.

Slim · Jun 27, 2020

Occam said:
Grrr. This is making my more-than-two-months-and-counting e-1 wait even more maddening!

Was it SilencerShop?

ST19AG_WGreymon said:
I'm hearing that SilencerShop screwed the pooch on this one. There are a lot of people who submitted Form 1s through SS that are having this delay. Sorry to hear.

I’ve ordered several suppressors through SilencerShop and was happy with their process, if not the 8-11 month wait.

I’m still not sure their E-service makes any sense for me. I’d done ATF eForms for a trust pre-41F, and just last month under the new regime with Responsible Person forms, photos and prints. Once I made myself a set of scanned prints and can crank them out on blue cards, eForms is the way to go.

Occam · Jun 27, 2020

Slim said:
Was it SilencerShop?

Yes. They already had my prints from a previous (and quite satisfactory) transaction. I had no reason to expect that their Form 1 e-file on my behalf would be any different than one done entirely by me ... and for the cost of a pizza, it was easy while I was making the parts purchase.

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