ATF E-Forms Submission wait time

Congrats to u too!! I'm pissed at myself for screwing around for over a month after you guys. I should have done my EF-1 in Jan... didn't do the 1st one until mid march... [frown]
 
In January the wait times were perfectly reasonable. I'm not sure many people foresaw wait times tripling over a month or two.
 
So I just got off the phone with NFA branch regarding a 5320.20 I submitted and I must say that she was super nice and intelligent. It seems my forms had crossed in the mail and some of my info didn't match what they had on record so she was questioning some things. Rather than jump down my throat she listened to my explanation reasonably and is going to help me straighten everything out, including updating the form 1 info. It seems that the info on the Form 20 has to match exactly what was on the Form 1 regardless of what the current state of the SBR is. Because I had to change barrels due to unforeseen circumstances, my barrel and overall length didn't match the Form 1. So rather than get all huffy and insulting, she is going to email me the form 20 and we will work through it in a civilized fashion.

Who are these people and why don't we have more of them???
 
bigblue said:
In January the wait times were perfectly reasonable. I'm not sure many people foresaw wait times tripling over a month or two.
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yeah everything looked like it was trending in the right direction. I wonder what is the cause for the sudden uptick in wait times, I assume just more demand?
 
Pete G said:
yeah everything looked like it was trending in the right direction. I wonder what is the cause for the sudden uptick in wait times, I assume just more demand?
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I think everyone saw 41R and panicked which led to a huge uptick in volume. There may also be some vacations at the ATF mucking things up too.
 
I down loaded the PDF of my form 1, made two copies, saved the PDF to my files. Question is, when transporting the lower/SBR is just the first page with the stamp on it, of the four page PDF the only one required to be with the lower/SBR at all times ? The other pages look non important but want to be sure.
 
71montess said:
I down loaded the PDF of my form 1, made two copies, saved the PDF to my files. Question is, when transporting the lower/SBR is just the first page with the stamp on it, of the four page PDF the only one required to be with the lower/SBR at all times ? The other pages look non important but want to be sure.
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Just print it tiled all on one page...
 
How consistent with the ATF with their scheduling? I have been watching NFA tracker like a hawk and I believe there was an F4 approval with a check cash date of 2/21. Mine was 2/17 so hopefully I get it any day now. I don't really know what to expect.
 
Pete G said:
How consistent with the ATF with their scheduling? I have been watching NFA tracker like a hawk and I believe there was an F4 approval with a check cash date of 2/21. Mine was 2/17 so hopefully I get it any day now. I don't really know what to expect.
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+/- a few days. Get it yet?
 
Not yet. Would be cool if I got it this week, could take them out memorial day weekend. Most of the F4s are around 2-10 still, so that one may have been an outlier.
 
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Got my first stamp today, a form 4. 3 months and 1 day since the check was cashed. The second F4 had the same check cash date (was actually purchased a few days prior to the one I just received) so hopefully I receive that one this week and can pick them both up Saturday.
 
Filed another one today, expecting 3 months at this rate. I see the times creeping up on NFA tracker something fierce for Eform 1's, and paper 4's are coming down. Looks like they're all going to converge.
 
Sinitron said:
Filed another one today, expecting 3 months at this rate. I see the times creeping up on NFA tracker something fierce for Eform 1's, and paper 4's are coming down. Looks like they're all going to converge.
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Ditto. I filed one today and expect an approval for it by October... I'm also waiting for one filed March 16th that I expect any day.
 
I'm with you Blue... I filed one the 16th too... and another 2 weeks later... ain't seen or heard a peep.. I'm thinking I screwed up the first one cause I couldn't find or remember how I paid for it,...
 
turbo38gn said:
I'm with you Blue... I filed one the 16th too... and another 2 weeks later... ain't seen or heard a peep.. I'm thinking I screwed up the first one cause I couldn't find or remember how I paid for it,...
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Funny thing is I tried to get a form 20 on short notice a month or two ago and was told 60-90 days for it... So I put this gun on it figuring they wouldn't get to it until this was approved.
Wouldn't you know I get a call two weeks later asking me all sorts of questions? So I fixed some things and they are just sitting on the form 20 for me.
 
Sinitron said:
You mailing in paper .20 forms or faxing them over? Need to do one or two myself, just getting prepared.
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I mailed it and she said faxing is fine but this last one I actually emailed her the corrections. She was super nice and fairly well spoken when I called her back.
 
I'm bumming.... not sure where to look, just opened up my account, it showed submitted date, 3-16-15.... nothing under finalized date.... am I looking in the right place... I need your inspector... maybe I did something wrong...
 
turbo38gn said:
I'm bumming.... not sure where to look, just opened up my account, it showed submitted date, 3-16-15.... nothing under finalized date.... am I looking in the right place... I need your inspector... maybe I did something wrong...
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Is it in the pending or approved bucket?
 
bigblue said:
Is it in the pending or approved bucket?
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I don't see anything that says pending, just submitted box with the date. Next to that it has a finalized box, but no date below it..

when I scrolled through the app, this message was at the end... Success The application has been validated successfully.
 

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