Congrats!!! 2 week turn around is an excellent amount of time to get approved in. You’ve also got a squeaky clean background, nobody else with the same name & a record, etc., things that trip up other applications & cause a delay for the Fibbies to have to do a more indepth investigation.

Now, start on the next one!!!

The efile Form 1 is so easy to do that there is really no reason to have it done by anyone else, especially with the latest round of “problems” with Silencer Shop submittals. Yes, I’ve heard all the excuses from individuals who used the Silencer Shop flawed Form 1 process: “It’s so easy for me”, “I can’t do my own fingerprints”, “I don’t have time…[Read more]

Correct about the shipping & mailing delays. Approved Form 1 & 4’s are collected once or twice a month from the home bound examiners, taken to ATF WV HQ, placed in Gub’ment “FOR OFFICIAL ISE ONLY” envelopes, run through the Gub’ment Use Only postage meter & then at some point taken to the Post Office. The lengthy delay is in the processing to get…[Read more]

No, a UPIN is a “special” number that you have to seperately apply for. It is used to differentiate between individuals with the same name, etc. It is a “unique designator” that is entered on future applications that “supposedly” prevents delays in the review process because of individuals having the same name and possible criminal background…[Read more]

CONGRATS Gunguy2a. You got yours just a bit less than 8 months, which is still pretty much the average nowadays. The 30/60/90 day approvals are just anomilies…

Seth, I’d call the dealer who supposedly submitted your Form 4 & ask him to provide you with proof that the form had actually been submitted, that the $200 had been made & why, if you haven’t been charged for the $200, why not. I’m betting that he hasn’t done either. It happens all the time, even with Silencer Shop. Silencer Shop & everybody with…[Read more]

Chill Mochool, you’re too uptight. Relax a little…

Must have been Jennifer. She’s a VERY nice lady but unfortunately she can only repeat what she’s been told. Examiners are still working from home and completed, approved and stamped Form 4’s are hand collected frome each home bound examiner once a month and then delivered to ATF WV HQ where they are folded , stuffed in a Gubment “Official Use…[Read more]

As have been said numerous times before, there’s no reason to the varying approval times, especially now with all the examiners working from home. I’d hate to think that before everyone left to work from the house that they grabbed a handfull of applications from the TOP of the stack, not from the BOTTOM where they should have been pulling from.…[Read more]

Individual…

My Form 4 application for a Surefire SOCOM 762-RC2 was “still pending on 11/21/2019 per Dafney @ BATFE when I called inquiring about the status.

Today I get a text from my dealer saying that the approved application & stamp for the SOCOM arrived yesterday & that I could pick it up.

So, here are the numbers:
Application sent: 2/12/2019 – Day…[Read more]

The government shutdown really screwed the processing up. added another 2 -3 monts to the average 7 -8 month approval…

Usually around a month for the check to be cashed…

Form 4 Individual (YHM Phantom LT .30)
Sent: 09/24/2018
Check Cashed: 10/16/2018
Approved: 08/31/2019
Received: 09/06/2019
Wait Time For Approval: 319 Days

Also notice that most approvals coming out right now had checks cashed in July, 2018, so you do in fact have around another 3 NORMAL PERSON months. November, 2019 sometime is spot on…

9 to 10 months in ATF speak is different that what most normal folks think a month means. Use this little day-date calculator, https://www.timeanddate.com/date/workdays.html?d1=11&m1=10&y1=2018&d2=5&m2=8&y2=2019&ti=on, and notice that if your check was cashed on Oct. 11, 2018, as mine was, then excluding weekends & holidays, your application would…[Read more]

I filed as an individual…