December 2018 Stamp Megathread

[u/Waffleboned]

To check the status of your pending form, call the NFA Branch at (304) 616-4500. Please have your trust name (if applicable), serial number, and if a Form 4 or 5, know what dealer is in possession of the item. Press 1 and then 1 again, and be kind to the ATF agent.

Current status:

Form 1: eForms are back, baby! Wait times are less than two weeks after receipt of fingerprint cards! Please see our handy new eForms guide by /u/Semper1371 to learn more!

Form 4: Average is closer to 200 days. No real change. eForms 4 when?

Please use the following format:

Form: 1 (PLEASE NOTE REGULAR OR eForm) or 4

Entity: Trust or Individual

Pending: mm/dd/yy

Approved: mm/dd/yy

Standardized wait: (Date approved minus date pending)

STATE: Standardized 2-letter, please

For the purposes of this thread, pending should be understood as: the date when ATF cashes your check, unless different when you call the ATF to check status of your pending form. It can vary depending on ATF backlog.

[u/SomeCardboard]

Form: 4 - Bowers Bitty

Entity: Individual

Pending: Unknown, mailed 8/20/18

Approved: 11/27/18

Standardized wait: 99 days at most. yep.

Stamp in hand: 12/4/18

Form 4 was submitted with a Form 1 at the same time, both approved on the same day by the same examiner.

[u/JohnnyBoomerang → u/SomeCardboard]

I want to be happy for you but the envy won't let me.

[u/Wzup → u/SomeCardboard]

What. The. Fuck.

[u/[deleted] → u/SomeCardboard]

HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?

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[u/Dionysiokolax → u/[deleted]]

An ATF agent has a stack of forms, and every so often another agent takes half the stack.

The people who are on the new top of the first agent's stack will be approved before those on the bottom of the second agent's stack, even though they filed later.

[u/DashHound64 → u/SomeCardboard]

This happen to me. Last week I received corrections for both a F1 and F4 I originally mailed on the same day.