ATF Wait Times

[Hatrick]

Received this in a email. Can anybody attest to this. I would trust your experience before the sellers.

 

[Tangent]

My last Form 4 (individual) that I received in Sept was an 11 month wait. That wasn't my first and won't be my last. I think my quickest was ~6 months. The 'Hide has a running thread where folks list wait times (linked below). Silencershop also lists running wait times.

https://forum.snipershide.com/threads/form-4-wait-time.14632/page-107

https://www.silencershop.com/atf-wait-times

I'd love to see a 90 day wait time, but my guess is those are the exceptions.

 

[BEEMAN]

I'm surprised it takes that long. As a Canadian I send in my 6N1A to the ATF every year and I'm always approved within 2-3 weeks. Sometimes only a week. Makes my U.S. hunting trips that much easier.

 

[Memberberries]

The ATF hired a bunch of new people supposedly and took the stacks of applications and split them amongst the new employees so wait times are not currently first come first served but they're working off of the small stacks

 

[Another Casual]

Yes and no. As above some applications from June have been going through, but there are still people like myself waiting since a year ago (or January for me) for form 4 transfers. Whether or not you believe they will continue to randomly process some out of order is up to you. If they are training people some of them appear to be working on newer stuff. But for all we know the next box they grab will be in chronological order and you're back to the current wait times (but hopefully working through the backlog so it's shorter going forward).

Basically, the email seems like a sales pitch that, while technically correct, isn't guaranteed to continue...

 

[Deleted member 103481]

My last checks were cashed December 20 2018.

So, not for me they aren't.

 

[762x51]

yeah right. name me anything that the US government is in charge of that gets done in 90 days.

 

[Dave in WI]

On the average for my customers, I am seeing 9 months right now.

 

[Gone Ballistic]

I sent mine in February 3, 2019 and nothing back as of this posting.

 

[Gone Ballistic]

yeah right. name me anything that the US government is in charge of that gets done in 90 days.

Tax increases!

 

[gillettehunter]

I'm at around 2 years....... I'd like to see something happen.
Bruce

 

[hydehunter]

what is the difference between a form 1 and a form 4 thanks Jim

 

[Deleted member 103481]

what is the difference between a form 1 and a form 4 thanks Jim

Form 1 is for when you're going to make the item yourself. F4 is for a manufacture made item

 

[crkckr]

yeah right. name me anything that the US government is in charge of that gets done in 90 days.

Taxes! (As long as owe them, anyway!)
Cheers,
crkckr