Heh! Santa arrived early with completed Form 4!! Baby gets to come home from jail. March - 23 November.
Due to work, won’t get to shoot it until December. :-(
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Mine came in today. Purchased it in December, but it was back ordered and the check was not cashed until April.
One Form 4 for a suppressor came in Friday. Submitted April 7th.
I had bought a suppressor the month before, and they didn't do that one yet.
Okay, so sounds like a reasonable ballpark timeline is about 9 months now.
I paid for a suppressor on an individual Form 4 at the end of May/start of June. The ATF cashed the check on June 11th. I received a phone call this morning that my tax stamp had arrived.
Given how long my Form 1s took, I'm predicting a 12+ month wait on my Form 4s . . .
My E-Form 1 finally cleared after 5 months. Dan’s approval gives me hope that my Form 4, submitted about the same time, will clear before the March timeframe I had estimated.
The weird thing about trying to predict ATF processing is it really doesn’t matter what people have gotten back recently since they don’t seem to process backlogs and new submissions at the same rate. I got my form 1SG back in 2-3 weeks while people who had them in a few weeks before me ended up waiting months.
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My FFL just received my stamp (dated 12/5) for a Form 4 submitted on 4/8/2020 for a Colt 6933 SBR. It probably would have been late October/early November, but there was a correction needed for the model number.
Now the wait for the KAC QDC that’s going to live on it...
Silencer Shop individual Form 4 - purchase 6/6/20
ATF check cashed - 7/10/20
Gun shop received stamp - 1/2/20
Shop doesn’t open back up until Monday!
Surefire RC2 and CGS mod 9sk checks cashed 3/20 : status still waiting..
Omega 9k check cashed 4/20 : r’cd call from my FFL 1/2/21 that stamp came in ... strange this is ready for pickup considering it was cashed one month later than the two above
Submitted via Silencer Shop kiosk in May 8th 2020
SOT received approved Form 4 back on Feb 1st 2021
A full-house Vang 870 SBS, previously owned by the Phoenix police department Special Assignments Unit (i.e. SWAT)
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6 months for E-file (trust) Form 4 suppressor.
Form 4 Trust - 181 days from filing (via Silencer Shop) to approval. 168 from the date the check was cashed.
Filed a Form 4 (Trust) in late Oct. Check cashed in early Nov 2020. Got the call today that the process is complete. So less than 6 months.
I was prepared for closer to a year, so I’m very pleased.
Does anyone know what the status is on the ATF starting eForm 4's again? I think it's been a couple years since I've heard anything about it.
So… secondary effect of the Gun buying panic of 2020.
May of 2020 I bought/submitted a stamp for a Gemtech Lunar9 (form 4/trust). As you know, the tax stamps on form 4s go to the dealer. So my form 4 was approved in October 2020. So Dealer got the stamp in October 2020 but never notified me. In May 2021 I’m in there to follow up on a lay away and the employee who went in back to get the gun asks if I’m waiting on any cans…..
TLDR 5 month ATF wait, 7 month wait for the dealer to get around to letting me know the damn stamp came in.
Yeah the dealer dropped the ball, but it's not difficult to figure out about how long the ATF should take to process the forms, and then give either the dealer or the the NFA branch or both a call, if your transfer is taking more time than that.
I finally decided to get on the suppressor band wagon and did the prints, photo, etc last week. So, 7 months(ish) on the paperwork/stamp?
That's what both the ATF and a crowdsourced site are saying.
https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/...ocessing-times
https://www.nfatracker.com/
I bought a can on 10/20/21. Just came in for 9 months 9 days or 282 days.
Haven’t yet picked it up. One down and a few to go.
I have a form 4 pending for a GemTech Tracker. My check was cashed on February 24, 2021. I am hoping to get it in September. We'll see.
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YHM Turbo K bought in a trust through Silencer Shop (well, transferred to them for the paperwork). Check cashed 12/24 and picked it up today. 219 days.
Last one was 168. Hope the trend doesn’t continue for the one I bought in May . . .
So I got three cans in in a week if you include the one above. Strange.
#2: 273 days (9 months)
#3: 320 days (10 months 17 days)
Crazy that all three come in in a 5 day period.
Finally signed the Form 4 today and gave them my money. The Countdown begins… guess that means June 2022 I will have my can.
I’m currently at 11 months for my 2nd suppressor. It was a paper Form 4 (eForms hadn’t dropped yet). The current mean response for paper Form 4s is 13 months. It’s an absurd wait, but I’m glad that it’s probably almost over.
My eForm 4 from early February just beat my paper form 4's from last July to the finish line. Sounds like the paper form 4's should be approved any time now though.
I had the payment for a Form 4 process one year ago this week. So hopefully “soon.”
I submitted 2 eForm4s on 2/17; one of them was approved back on June 8. Other still pending.
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